In partnership with Connected Places Catapult and Key Location Partner ‘We Can Make’ in Knowle West, Bristol, we’re proud to have the opportunity to collaborate with the local community to tackle climate change.

Together, we aim to drive a rewilding movement, starting in back gardens and extending across the landscape, fostering biodiversity and creating a greener, more sustainable future for all.

A Wilder Way to Care for Nature

Most gardens are curated: neat, ornamental, controlled.
But at Wilder Gardens, we believe nature thrives when it’s a little wilder: growing through cracks in the pavement and carried on the joy of communities.

At the Bristol Festival of Nature, we looked West and found our North Star.
Here, nature isn’t a day trip, it’s an everyday, messy, beautiful part of neighbourhood life.

We met people planning pond digs on WhatsApp, sharing compost heaps, planting pollinator patches, and asking:

“How do I rewild my garden?”
“Can I register a Neighbourhood Nature Reserve?”

Yes. You can.
And we’re here to help.

Wilder Gardens connects people, patches, and purpose — from shared verges to borrowed borders. Starting where we are, with what we’ve got.

Now we’re piloting a plan to inspire the people of Bristol to install 10 new ponds in 10 neighbourhoods. Proof that rewilding doesn’t need permission or perfection! A washing-up bowl is a great start.

To Be More Bristol Is To:

Reimagine what’s possible on your patch

Dig a pond — even the most makeshift makes a big difference.

Welcome difference — in species and stories

Celebrate the wild, woolly, and wonderful

Listen to kids and elders — both hold vital knowledge

Let’s grow it at the heart of where we live.

Let’s Be More Bristol.

Let’s Be Wilder, Together.

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Wilder Gardens For Local Nature. For Landscape-Scale Change.

Your garden is important. It’s more powerful than you think. Whether it’s a balcony, a border, or a jungle of weeds—every green space can be part of a bigger, wilder movement.

Wilder Gardens is here to help you reconnect with nature and grow your garden’s impact. You don’t need expert knowledge or a perfect plot—just a willingness to give back to the natural world, starting where you are.

🌼 Take the Wilder Gardens Pledge - ‘I pledge to Give Back To Nature’
🌱 Complete the Garden Biodiversity Survey
📍 Pin your garden to a Wilder Gardens map – we’re growing a Neighbourhood Nature Reserves movement. By placing your garden on the map, you show that individual care counts—and together, our gardens create powerful, landscape-scale change.

When you do, we’ll send you a FREE Garden Biodiversity Certificate (GBC) to celebrate your contribution. It’s a small step that helps build a bigger picture of what gardens are already doing—and what they can become when we work together.

Join us. Share. Learn. Grow. Rewild.
Your garden matters—let’s make it thrive.