Check out this great post (with pictures) of Adam Woodruff’s visit to the Oudolf Nursery & Garden over at Gardening Gone Wild:
“On a personal note, I introduced myself to Piet after I had toured the property. He was incredibly open and generous with his time: going so far as to step away from his guests and give me a tour of his studio, where he graciously entertained all my questions, shared some of his current projects and recommended a few other gardens to visit.”
I was reading The New York Times when a photograph from the New York Botanical Garden caught my eye. It was in an article by Anne Raver about the new Four Season Border designed by Piet Oudolf and it was almost the exact same picture that I took a couple of weeks ago.
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According to the website for the garden (www.seasonwalk.com):
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“In 2008, The New York Botanical Garden invited two international garden design superstars, Piet Oudolf of Hummelo, NL and Jacqueline van der Kloet of Weesp, NL, to create a custom four-season garden installation to delight New Yorkers. Both designers are known for sophisticated plant mixes, an artist’s eye for form and color, and complex naturalized plantings that evolve over the seasons.”
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The Seasonwalk website includes photographs of the every-changing border every couple of weeks. Check out The New York Times photograph here.
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As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Piet Oudolf’s High Line Gardens Open in New York City), the blog inhabitat: design will save the world, has great pictures of the gardens here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/09/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Great Blog Posts About Piet Oudolf), the High Line in New York City opened this week. From Nicolai Ouroussoff’s architectural review in The New York Times:
“A subtle play between contemporary and historical design, industrial decay and natural beauty sets the tone. The surface of the deck, for example, is made of concrete planks meant to echo the linearity of the old tracks. The path slips left and right as it advances, so that at some points you are right up against the edge of the railing and at others you are enveloped in the gardens.
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And those gardens have a wild, ragged look that echoes the character of the old abandoned track bed when it was covered with weeds, just a few years ago. Wildflowers and prairie grasses mix with Amelanchier bushes, their branches speckled with red berries. Mr. Corner designed planters to hold the taller trees, and the Gansevoort entry is marked by a cluster of birches. On Saturday the gardens were swarming with bees, butterflies and birds. I half expected to see Bambi.”
For the full article, click here.
From The New York Times: “More than 100 different kinds of perennials and grasses from the Battery gardens in Lower Manhattan designed by Piet Oudolf, the Dutch landscape designer, will be available for $10 each at the Battery Conservancy plant sale on May 7, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m…’We have over 3,000 divisions to sell, all from the incredibly strong plants in our gardens,’ said Warrie Price, right, the founder and president of the Battery Conservancy, created in 1994.”
You can see some of these plants in my pictures from Battery gardens here.
Yvonne Cunnington at Country Gardener has a beautiful picture of her Piet Oudolf Inspired Garden. She writes: “The lack of fussiness, tossing out high maintenance deadheading and staking, combining grasses with naturalistic perennials – these are all the qualities that drew me to his style, which happens to be tailor-made for country gardens.” For the full post, click here: http://countrygardener.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-piet-oudolf.html
Yolanda Elizabet at Bliss has pictures of Piet Oudolf’s private garden. She writes: “Last week I went to Piet Oudolf to look at his nursery and private garden. I had paid him a visit before, last October, but that was during the Grass Days (held annually) when several other nurseries sell their stuff at Piet’s place too.” For the full post, click here: http://blissyo-elgarden.blogspot.com/2007/07/piet-oudolfs-private-garden.html
James Golden at View from Federal Twist writes of Piet Oudolf’s next New York City project, the Highline. He writes: “The Highline, an abandoned elevated rail line on the West Side of Manhattan, is being converted into a linear park and trail. For the first time in New York City, this innovative park will introduce Piet Oudolf’s work on a large scale. While his plantings for the Memorial Gardens in Battery Park are a successful and attractive feature of Manhattan’s southern tip, the Highline is a much more ambitious and challenging project that promises to attract widespread attention.” For the full post, click here: http://federaltwist.blogspot.com/2006/10/highline.html
I love the plants of the American prairie. The simple forms are beautiful. They are undemanding, attract tons of butterflies, flower over a long period of time, and make me feel connected to the land. Unfortunately, I don’t have the setting and environment where I could create a meadow garden.
In the Long Border, I have tried to incorporate many of these plants–echinacea, black eyed susans, phlox, butterfly weed, goldenrod, joe pye weed, asters, liatris, veronicastrum, monarda, baptisia, rattlesnake master–into my planting.
My inspiration for the Long Border came from a trip I took to the gardens of Battery Park in lower Manhattan. These American prairie plants compose a large part of the palette used by Piet Oudolf, the Dutch garden designer of the park. Below are some of the photographs I took on my visit.
The first picture shows purple coneflower and mountain mint in the foreground, backed by monarda, veronicastrum, joe pye weed, and miscanthus.
The second photo shows baptisia (not in flower), monarda, and daylilies with a mass of amsonia in the back.
Photo three shows veronicastum, Russian sage, yarrrow, rattlesnake master, and alliums.
The fourth photo shows liatris and switch grass. 
The fifth photo includes purple coneflower, switch grass, astilbe, and oregano.
For pictures of the Long Border, click here: http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2008/01/garden-for-late-summer-long-border.html
For my prior post on Piet Oudolf, click here: http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2008/02/winter-garden-inspiration-piet-oudulf.html
I have been working on making my garden look more attractive during the long winter months. In this week’s Home & Garden section of the New York Times, they give a peak into famous Dutch gardener Piet Oudolf’s personal garden in an article entitled “A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically.” His personal garden is only one acre, and it is an inspiration–even in winter. For the full article and slide show, click here:
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