ON THE WILD SIDE
The new, green regime of gardening – more is more, even of weeds – can be confronting to long-time practitioners.
The elegant-garden taste leaders of previous decades would scarcely believe that these days, the once-regretted necessity of letting one’s autumn garden “go over” – run to seed, die back and collapse – is regarded as one of the best bits. The perfect green sward mowed in stripes in the backyard is beginning to be a social faux pas akin to a petrol SUV in the
