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Garden tours & workshops
The Rewilded Walled Garden
Our Rewilded Walled Garden is a unique horticultural experiment inspired by what we’ve learnt from rewilding the wider landscape at Knepp. Featured in Monty Don’s British Gardens (2025), Gardener’s World (2024) and David Attenborough’s The Wonder of Song (2022) on BBC TV, a TED talk by Isabella Tree, and countless books and podcasts on gardens, it’s changing the way we’re thinking about gardening.
Rewilding a garden isn’t about closing the garden gate and simply letting things go. It takes intentional interventions to create conditions for wildlife to thrive. By imitating natural processes, we’ve created a space that is also sustainable and resilient to climate change. It’s a garden for the future.
It’s also breathtakingly beautiful, though perhaps in an unconventional way.
A Movement for Change
There are 26 million gardens in the UK covering an incredible 2.4 million acres – three times the area of land designated to National Parks and 4.6% of our total land mass.
Thinking differently about a garden and providing more space for nature within it can be a huge boost to local wildlife. Collectively, UK gardens can play a vital role in reversing biodiversity losses, especially of insects, and help battle climate change.
In just the first three years of rewilding our Walled Garden, the number of wildlife species has increased by 34%. It is now home to 434 species of insects, some of them nationally rare that haven’t even been recorded in the wider rewilding project. Provide and they will come!
Join a guided tour or book yourself onto a self-guided tour so you can experience the magic at your own pace. For private tours please email gardens@knepp.co.uk.
Garden visits are on foot, at a gentle pace but the ground is uneven and there can be a significant amount of standing around and looking at things. If you’re unable to stand for periods of time, do consider bringing a shooting stick or similar support with you. Unfortunately the garden is not wheelchair accessible.
If you’re planning to eat at our Wilding Kitchen before your garden tour or workshop, please allow around an hour and a half to enjoy your meal and get to the Rewilded Walled Garden, bearing in mind it is a 10-minute drive or 45-minute walk, and tours start promptly.