Wild Beast Gardening

What is Wild beast all about? Good question……To be in the wild, to be connected with the spirit of the wild while understanding how to make an outdoor space feel like you’re in nature but not. My goal was to build up all the skills possible to be able to manage any garden, unleashing my creative side while completely focusing on the plants and the soft landscaping side of things. This I can say we’ve done, but always still learning and hungry for a new plant variety to appear. We feel it’s important to live within nature. There’s enough hard landscaping around. Our focus is on methods for working with nature and bringing it back into outdoor spaces as much as possible as many moons ago it was all just nature (not to say we should go back to then but to help balance things out within our world). Now its crafted nature.

We can be creative through garden maintenance through working with and having a good knowledge of plants. Looking after the plants and moving around what is already there, making changes. We don’t do any hard landscaping, we are strictly a creative maintenance team where some soft landscaping is involved with some wood work, sculpture & will do some small repairs on what is already there.

We’re proud to say that we’ve removed harsh, environmentally damaging chemicals from our range of treatments a few years ago now, where all products are organic with different and a wider range of ingredients for better soils and plants.

As a team we can get into a garden and see exactly what needs to be done, depending of course on the feel the customer wants. There are many different styles for caring and maintaining a garden: neat & tidy, formal, stylish, naturalistic and many more. You can have a mix and blend of many styles which reflect who you are. The basic maintenance style we do is a mix of many that I have learned over 18 years of experience. We can incorporate super order but super wild at the same time. Of course, if you know what you like, then we would love to discuss this or, if you would like to discover your style, we’re happy to talk through the process with you.

In 2006, I joined a gardening firm for the first time. Shortly after I took a RHS course at Plumpton College. It wasn’t until I started understanding more about nature that I became more and more passionate about plants and the bigger picture of creating a garden. The firm taught me the importance of maintenance and how to manage all different types and sizes of garden.

I have taken the business in a direction which focusses on plants and the environment. This I love, being able to unleash my creative side to mix and blend amazing plants. I feel it’s important to have a long term plan to bring a natural spark into your garden. It doesn’t have to be done all at once, bit by bit if necessary. I thrive on changing a garden and maintaining it to make sure it continues to look good all year round.

In our climate we must adapt to the ever changing world. We may have to change materials, resources, plants and methods of gardening here in the UK. But there is a lot to be grateful for and to look forward to. In the UK we are lucky to be able to grow a lot of different varieties hardy enough to withstand our unstable and uncertain winters. Now it’s time to bring in the new age of plants, the ones that will adapt to our journey as humans grow to respect the environment.

We feel it’s important for people everywhere, if they are fortunate enough, to have a natural space that uplifts their mood, raising levels of happiness and well-being. A space is even better if you can mould it to the feel you want. Being in these environments has always served me well. We can all benefit from a living natural space to relax and reflect.

I hope a garden does the same for you as it does for me. Nature always wins.