The only thing we know is cultivated landscapes, even the bigger landscapes are made by people.
Piet Oudolf: We don’t live in nature anymore. I am interested in your knowledge on plants, how does a gardener relate to nature? While their practices are quite distinctive, there is a shared appreciation for the power of the right plants, good soil and the urgency of bring more nature into our urban settings.īas Smets: I was thinking of the relationship between nature and the landscape or nature and the garden, especially this notion that the land is transformed into a landscape through a cultural process. Oudolf's detailed plans provide inspiration and insight for all interested in both small personal gardens and large-scale public landscapes.Piet Oudolf and Bas Smets, two leading landscape architects, both from the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium respectively), are subtly transforming our cities, parks, cultural sites and more through their visionary ideas on the landscape and how it affects our everyday lives. Noel Kingsbury's accessible text explains how each garden and the plants selected for it fit the specific environment. This glorious full-colour volume features twenty-three of Oudolf's most beautiful public and private gardens, including the widely acclaimed High Line and the Battery in New York City Wisley, the RHS Garden in Surrey the Pensthorpe Gardens in Norfolk the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park in Chicago and Il Giardino delle Vergini at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
Oudolf challenges conventional approaches to gardening that rely on short-lived bursts of colour and constant maintenance and shows the delights of creating lasting, ecologically sound panoramas that relate to the landscape and the seasons. Perennials - prized for their beauty throughout their life cycle - are used almost exclusively. A leading figure in the New Perennial planting movement, garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf emphasizes plant structure as the most important aspect of a successful garden.
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