I think he understands them fully and thus his opposition to them.
A bit of a subtle difference between not agreeing and not understanding perhaps...
From what he has written about rewilding this year, I don't think he has the first clue. He associates rewilding with abandonment. I think he has visited some small garden that got covered in brambles and took against the idea. If he visited some of the 30 year old + projects around the UK, he would see the vast benefits and the deep care that goes into the land. Cairngorms Connect is a 200 year project over 600 square km. The Carthanians has a project of one million hectares.
To be fair I don't think he was talking about "rewilding" outside of the garden context. Has he expressed an opinion somewhere about rewilding parts of the countryside as being "puritanical nonsense"?
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
If I was up to it, my ideal day would be spent in the garden, then out for a fabulous meal [ still with dirty finger nails ], finally finishing in a great club...... but those days are long gone.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
My garden is wild enough I think and I'm not planning much taming of the invasive kind but there will be increased biodiversity if all goes to the plan in my head.
I've just read a report online in which Monty says he's planning to give up one big thing when he hits 70. He loves his writing and his travel so GW is likely to go.
I thought he was already past 70!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I was born on 9 January 1954 Monty is younger than me I can't believe it, now while I am all in favour of these old television presenters moving over and letting the younger ones have a chance seeing what the BBC regard as up and coming talent e.g Rylan Clark and Stacey Solomon I would urge some of the old school to stay on our screens a little longer but that could be because I'm old too.
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To be fair I don't think he was talking about "rewilding" outside of the garden context. Has he expressed an opinion somewhere about rewilding parts of the countryside as being "puritanical nonsense"?
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://shado-mag.com/know/what-is-guerrilla-gardening/
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I've just read a report online in which Monty says he's planning to give up one big thing when he hits 70. He loves his writing and his travel so GW is likely to go.
I thought he was already past 70!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.