Piet Oudolf's personal account of his celebrated career in the
context of the evolution of his own garden. An intimate look at the
personal garden of the Dutch landscape designer renowned for his
plantings at the High Line in New York City, and Lurie Garden at
Chicago's Millennium Park. Hummelo - near the village of the same
name in Gelderland in the eastern Netherlands - is visited by
thousands of gardeners seeking inspiration each year. It is Piet
Oudolf's home, his personal garden laboratory, a former nursery run
by his wife Anja, and the place where he first tested new designs
and created the new varieties of perennials that are now widely
available. A follow-up to Oudolf's successful Landscapes in
Landscapes - Hummelo tells the story of how the garden has evolved
over the past three decades since Oudolf, Anja, and their two young
sons moved onto the property, with its loamy sand and derelict,
wood stove-heated farmhouse, in 1982. Text by noted garden author
and longtime personal friend Noel Kingsbury places Hummelo in
context within gardening history, from The Netherlands'
counterculture and nascent green movement of the 1960s, to prairie
restoration in the American Midwest, and shows how its development
has mirrored that of Oudolf's own outstanding career and unique
naturalistic aesthetic. Oudolf has long been at the forefront of
the Dutch Wave and New Perennial Style movements in garden design,
which have ecological considerations at their base. His work
stresses a deep knowledge of plants, eschewing short-lived annuals
in favor of perennials that can be appreciated for both structure
and blooms in every season. He is credited for leading the way to
today's focus on sustainability in garden design. The book will
appeal to readers who favor beautiful, biodiverse, and
ever-changing plantings: seed heads, grasses, sedges, and winter
silhouettes. They will be drawn into its pages by lush photography,
often demonstrating how Oudolf views his own work, and providing
rare glimpses into his daily life. Short essays highlight important
techniques, including scatter plants and matrix planting, and
introduce other famed landscape designers - Karl Foerster, Henk
Gerritsen, Rob Leopold, Ernst Pagels, and Mien Ruys - to create a
full panorama of the movement Oudolf now leads.
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