![]() ![]() In 2013 he singled out the 100 plants he wont do without and we have them all listed. For the omniscient Oudolf it’s all according to plan. Piet Oudolf is a world-famous garden designer, nurseryman and writer. He is a leading figure of the New Perennial movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are chosen at least as much for their structure as for their flower color. Native deciduous trees preside over layers of flowering shrubs, grasses, and shade-tolerant ground flora that evolve season to season in pastoral choreography-with dramatic shifts in density, color, texture, and form. Piet Oudolf (Dutch pronunciation: pit udlf born 27 October 1944) is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. Among the featured feats is this never-before-seen private garden in the Netherlands, where he deftly transformed a network of green roofs (their substrate no more than 10 inches) into a blurred boundary between home and terrain. Surveying more than 20 projects, including greatest hits like the High Line and Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the volume juxtaposes detailed photography with the largest collection of his drawings ever published, generously offering a Technicolor road map to his oft-imitated schemes. But there’s some serious method to that madness, as outlined in his revealing new monograph, Piet Oudolf at Work (Phaidon, $80). The plants listed are applicable for sun or shade plantings and are listed. ![]() ![]() Over the course of his decades-long career, the Dutch landscape maestro has upended conventions of green space, weaving perennials into seemingly untamed meadows and other horticultural marvels. Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury. ![]()
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