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Horticulture legend and nature gardening innovator Chris Baines on rewilding, biodiversity, bird feeding and parks

Chris Baines is one of the UK’s leading independent environmentalists and an award-winning writer and broadcaster.

A trained horticulturist and landscape architect, he spent some years practising and teaching landscape design but has spent most of his career a professional adviser to Government and other bodies including the National Trust, National Grid and energy regulator Ofgem.

Fornerly a presenter of BBC Countryfile, his 1986 film Blue Tits and Bumblebees is often credited with starting the trend towards gardening with nature.

Back in 1979 Baines bucked the trend in a chemical-driven…

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