Wildness in a Corner: Jarman, Benton End, and Artists' Gardens

Lecture no. 9

Dear Heart,

Words, like clothes, fall in and out of fashion. ‘Rewilding’ is one of the fashionable ones. According to the OED it was coined around 1990 and means the returning of land to a more natural state, usually in the spirit of ecology. The evidence was in this year’s BBC coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, where the presenters emphasized the impo…