Piet Oudolf

Oudolf's planting in the Chicago Millennium Park's Lurie Garden (designed in collaboration with Kathryn Gustafson)

Piet Oudolf (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌpit ˈʌu̯dɔlf]) (born 27 October 1944 in Haarlem) is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are chosen at least as much for their structure as for their flower colour.

Books

His books include Gardening With Grasses (1998) (with Michael King and Beth Chatto), Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (2000) and Planting the Natural Garden (2003) (both with Henk Gerritsen), Designing With Plants (1999), Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space (2005) (both with Noel Kingsbury) and Landscapes in Landscapes (2011), Planting: A New Perspective (Timber Press, 2013), and the most recent, Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life (2015) (with Noel Kingsbury).

Projects

He is the designer of the interior garden of the 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, in collaboration with the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

His own garden, at Hummelo, near Arnhem in the Netherlands has been created since 1982. It has gone through many changes which reflect Oudolf's constantly developing planting design. Initially it was designed with a series of yew (Taxus baccata) hedges and blocks, reflecting Oudolf's architectural style which owed much to Mien Ruys, the designer who dominated Dutch garden design in the post-war period.

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