Oudolf's detailed plans provide inspiration and insight for all interested in both small personal gardens and large-scale public landscapes. For a landscape architect, unique design and rare and unusual are both, ideally, natural outcomes on any site but only if a design team can successfully. Noël Kingsbury's accessible text explains how each garden and the plants selected for it fit the specific environment. Piet Oudolf, one of worlds most visionary and influential landscape gardeners, is at the forefront of the New Perennial planting movement. 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. An abandoned railway line running at an altitude of about 10 m was last operated in 1980.

One of the striking examples of such a strange neighborhood soaring Park promenade High Line in Manhattan. He is a leading figure of the 'New Perennial' movement his designs and plant compositions using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are chosen at least as much for their structure as for their flower color. Piet Oudolf is a big fan of incorporating naturgarden into the urban landscape. 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. Piet Oudolf (Dutch pronunciation: peet udl()f born 27 October 1944) is a Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. Perennials - prized for their beauty throughout their life cycle - are used almost exclusively. Format: Softcover, 292 x 230 mm, 282pp.Ī 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.

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Author: Piet Oudolf, ISBN: 9780500289464.

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