Carlow Garden Festival’s Robin Lane Fox “Beauty & Biodiversity” at Borris House & Gardens
Borris House Gardens and Woodlands Borris House & Gardens, Borris, Co. CarlowShould gardening change and somehow; ‘return to nature’? At London’s big Chelsea Show there has been a new emphasis on sustainable gardening and the use of eco-friendly native ’plants’ and yet the award for the Best in Show went to a large exhibit which is unsustainable in British gardens and are the very opposite of no-mow gardening. Robin Lane Fox explores the contradictions here and the way in which people, an invasive species, react to them, whether visitors to his garden or professors and students in the big Oxford college gardens he runs.