13 hours Ago By Alice Sjoberg
As spring is here, it's time to start planning what to grow in your garden for the upcoming months. One prominent trend on social media is the rise of young gardeners sharing their first experiences having their own gardens to do whatever they want with. While some have opted for traditional gardening methods, whether its planting flowers or vegetables, some have opted for a more chaotic method.
While it may sound strange, the main goal of chaotic gardening is to embrace a more natural style of gardening that has wildlife in mind and echoes nature's informal, unbridled look that is created by plants spreading and mixing as they wish. One of these people embracing the new trend is Sarah Hayroyan, a young mum who has taken to Instagram to share her gardening and DIY adventures, including the informal 'chaotic gardening' method when creating her flower garden . A post shared by Sarah Hayroyan (@sarah.
hayroyan) In a recent video that boasts over 8.5 million views , Sarah shares the beginning stages of creating a flower patch in her garden. She went on to show her large collection of flower seed packages before ripping them all open and pouring them into the same jar.
She filled it up before putting on the lid so she could shake it to mix up the seeds inside. She then opened up the jar and slowly started to shake the jar to release the seeds out in her designated flower patch. She then used a rake to cover up the seeds with the soil before watering the patch with a generous amount of water.
She explained in the caption of the video: “This worked last year so I’m doubling the size and SO excited.” A post shared by Sarah Hayroyan (@sarah.hayroyan) Sarah later took to her Instagram story to share that the flowers have started to sprout, meaning she’ll soon be met with a flower field in her garden patch.
Since people were anxious to find out how it’d turn out, Sarah went on to share a video from last year where she’d also decided to make a ‘chaotic’ flower garden. While this is a fairly new garden trend from social media, several professional garden experts have shared their amazment in how its getting younger generation into gardening. Talking to House & Garden magazine , RHS gold medal-winning gardener Cleve West expressed his thought about the modern gardening trend.
He said: "What's amusing is how we perceive nature going about her business as chaotic and our eclectic mixes of plants as normal. Shouldn’t it be the other way round?!".
