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Lilith Hudson

This fresh and carefree planting trend makes it easier than ever to create a beautiful backyard – even for beginners

A wild backyard with different types of flowers growing together

Does the painstaking process of planning put you off gardening? Are you too laissez-faire to commit to sowing seeds at the right time? Do you want to be able to call yourself green-thumbed without giving up your life to tend your backyard? Well, chaos gardening might be the carefree approach to planting you need. 

This latest sustainable gardening trend takes a more relaxed approach to planting flowers, shrubs, or veggies, and it's one that even expert gardeners are getting behind. It moves away from the precise planting, obsessive potting, and perfectionist pruning we've seen in recent modern gardens, instead encouraging a more organic method that not only makes your job easier, but has practical benefits to your backyard, too. Here's everything you need to know. 

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