Piet Oudolf
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Before it was restored, the High Line was an untouched, abandoned landscape overgrown with wildflowers. Today it's a central plaza, a cultural center, a walkway, and a green retreat in a bustling city that is free for all to enjoy. This beautiful, dynamic garden was designed by Piet Oudolf, one of the world's most extraordinary garden designers. “Gardens of the High Line”, by Piet Oudolf and Rick Darke, offers an in-depth view into the planting...
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"When it was first published, Planting the Natural Garden--the first book by Piet Oufolf--was the start of the now immensely popular New Perennial Movement. Since then, Piet Oudolf has become one of the most iconic and groundbreaking designers of our time, responsible for some of the world's most important gardens, including the High Line, the Lourie Garden, the Battery, and Pottersfield. Fans of Piet Oudolf will delight in this revised edition of...
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"Indispensable." -The New York Times Book Review
Piet Oudolf's gardens-unique combinations of long-lived perennials and woody plants that are rich in texture and sophisticated in color-are breathtaking and have deep emotional resonance. With Planting, designers and home gardeners can recreate these plant-rich, beautiful gardens that support biodiversity and nourish the human spirit.
An intimate knowledge of plants is essential to the success...
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A garden designer and plant breeder, Oudolf designs gardens that use perennials exclusively, eschewing the current trend toward high-maintenance mixed borders of perennials, annuals, and shrubs. He values perennials for their form and texture, emphasizing structure as the most important aspect in successful garden design. The color of flowers comes in a distant third after the form of the plant and the shape of the leaves; Oudolf's motto is "a successful...
6) Dream plants for the natural garden: over 1,200 beautiful and reliable plants for a natural garden
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"Whatever you are looking for, whether it is plants that are fast-growing and self-seeding for a wild look, or neat low-maintenance flowers that stay tidily in one place, this book provides an astonishing range of the most reliable varieties. The book's structure arranges the plants according to their behaviour, their strengths and their uses. All these plants do exactly what is expected of them and they are all hardy and easy to grow in almost any...
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Over the course of his thirty-year career, Piet Oudolf has constructed dozens of private, corporate, and public gardens throughout the world, including the celebrated High Line in NYC, Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago, and temporary installations for the Venice Biennale and the Serpentine Gallery pavillion. This book presents an overview of Oudolf's career, providing detailed insight into how his beloved naturalistic aesthetic, based heavily...