Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm Poetry Cold Hardy to 15 degrees

Cold Hardy to 15 degrees F Distribution Selected for the garden Natural Habitat Sand

Plant Characteristics Family Name Malvaceae Species Name Fremontodendron californicum Common Name California Flannel Bush Plant Type Shrub Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

spinosus hybrid

Good butterfly plant

Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm Poetry Cold Hardy to 15 degreesAn inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring. For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. They would restore Knepps 3,500 acres to the wild. Using herds of free