So Wild!
So Wild! is about planting wild flowers in the city. Why fight the wild nature, when you can benefit from it and it can benefit from us? The native Danish species can easily be transplanted into the city, increasing biodiversity, provide food for the insects and provide a much more beautiful, more eventful and changing every day. The city should flourish!
Why be so boring when you can plant something wild? This is a bit black and white, because plants can absolutely be beautiful and exciting, but the fact is that if you want nature and the wild pollinators to benefit, it is necessary to plant the wild native Danish flowers that pollinators have adapted to.
Wild Danish flowers are beautiful, whether we are talking about field scabious, fireweed, tansy, yarrow, oxeye daisy, medical alkanet, snakehead or something else. Not all plants can grow anywhere, so the chosen seed mix must be adapted to the soil, food and moisturizing conditions at play. But the conditions and settings that are typically found in a city are very varied and they can be planted with seed mixtures for the natural habitats: beach, marsh, grasslands, meadows, moors, fens and forests - depending on the location.
The seed mixtures can be used anywhere in the urban habitat, whether it is for roadsides, gardens or parks, green roofs or walls. In this way, you can create small wild oases to the delight of the city's animals and humans. These biotopes might be many city dwellers' only meeting with the Danish wild plants. And they can easily be included in school curriculums.
But wild flowers are also practical. They help to improve the city's air quality and they function as water-absorbing and cleansing elements. They can mitigate climate changes such as heavy rainfall. A few handfuls of them are even edible and can be used in the city's kitchens, including commercial kitchens.
Once again, the emphasis is on a high public participation in the establishment and care of plants, so that citizens get close to the nature in the city and can taste, smell and enjoy the sight of thousands of plants and flowers.