Return of the Wilderness to the UK?

[Scythe13]

Right, this is another thought process that's being kicked off by the recent disagreements, agreements, and the alike.

We're most in union, that the UK is pretty much 1 big field. That's simple enough to understand.

The question is, with all the fields not being kept quite as tidy. Clearly Maa-Nature will start to 'reclaim' land.

How long do you think it will be, post collapse, until you can honestly say that the UK countryside is a good step towards being a 'wilderness' again?

This is a fun question, because it depends on the speed plants grow at, the varieties of plants, the suitability of the soil, surrounding waterways, the speed of spread of plants, and things like that. Plus, it depends on the number of people around and how well they look after and sustain the fields around them.

Couple this with the idea of wilderness survival, if the reclaiming happens quickly enough, then once the stored tins have vanished, bushcraft skills may well be more applicable to daily life, e.g. foraging, and the alike.

Weird hu?

So, back to the original question. How long, after the collapse, until the fields are reclaimed as wilderness?

Please do not include the time taken for the plants to recover from human (think refugee's) damage. Think...field in the middle of nowhere, beside a woodland area.

Also, how long until more animals start to populate the reclaimed land?