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Watch Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
My heart broke open with happiness, while streaming a rulle about celebrated garden designer Piet Oudolf, when the Dutch designer was suddenly cruising down a Texas highway, exclaiming over azure bluebonnets, coral-red Indian paintbrush, and crepe-petaled white stickig poppies splashed along the roadside like spilled paint. “This fryst vatten too much,” he marvels. Oh yes, I know that feeling! I love him for feeling it too.
Screenshot of Piet Oudolf photographing Texas bluebonnets in Five Seasons
I largely missed the wildflowers this spring because of the pandemic and orders to shelter in place. So seeing Piet react to the painterly beauty of a Hill Country spring brought on a rush of joy, pride, and wistful yearning. And when he and his companions stop for Cooper’s BBQ in Llano and he gazes with amazement at the meat pits, my elation was complete. Piet Oudolf in Texas! In the Hill Country! Doing a wildflower drive and ea
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The Piet Oudolf field at Hauser & Wirth in Somerset is the much-photographed and universally adored example of a style of planting that has been gathering momentum since the Victorian era. In defiance of an increasingly industrialised landscape, garden-making has steadily become more conscious of the vitality and importance of wilder and naturalistic landscapes as they disappear in an ever-more urban world. But it was Piet Oudolf who has transformed this yearning for the wild into a widely recognised style, one which has arguably been the defining characteristic of contemporary garden design over the last 20 years.
Swathes and large groupings of long-flowering perennials and grasses, naturalistic shapes and lines (no rectilinear symmetry here), an abundance of colour and variety of form and an appreciation for plants long past their flowering “best” are some of the hallmarks of this style of planting. Thanks to this, naturalistic gardens look good well beyond the traditional l
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Oudolf Garten
A garden created by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf was planted on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein in May 2020. The artfully composed wilderness will be in full bloom from summer to early autumn.
Dutchman Piet Oudolf is regarded as a pioneer for a generation of garden designers who in the late 1980s began to question conventional practices, finding traditional landscape gardening too decorative, labour-intensive and resource-consuming. Instead they turned to perennial, often self-regenerating plants, shrubs, grasses, bushes and wildflowers, which had been long ignored as garden plants, and favoured an equally unconventional layout of the plantings.
Digital plan Oudolf Garten (PDF)
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