wilding

From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild +‎ -ing.

wilding (plural wildings)

1. A wild apple or apple-tree.
2. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red [...].

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Landor

     The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.

From wild +‎ -ing.

wilding

1. present participle of wild

wilding (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     Wilding flowers.'

   • (Can we date this quote?) Bryant

     The wilding bee hums merrily by.