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Garden Tour: Year-Round Designs of Piet Oudolf
NYT House & Home Roundup 1.31.08

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Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf embraces the complete life-cycle of plants. His style of gardening focuses on the plants' structure and skeletal forms over their color. His unique focus on year-round gardens inspired the New Wave Planting movement. In New York, Mr Oudolf was commissioned to design the garden for the High Line rail bed - the perfect place to showcase his talents. This is a collection of images from his 1850s Farmhouse in The Netherlands, where Oudolf puts his theories into practice...

Check out his full story here: A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically with the accompanying slideshow. We can't wait to see the High Line work!

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(Pics: Herman Wouters)

Comments (4)

Gorgeous and a little surreal. Perfect for the High Line.

posted by beelzabean on 2008-01-31 14:12:06
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If you want to see his garden in summer you should pick up the latest issue of Garden Design Magazine. The whole issue is worth a look.

posted by mattplantguy on 2008-01-31 14:17:06
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I wish more of my clients would buy into how beautiful a garden can look as it transitions from season to season. The majority of them think that once a plant turns brown it's dead and so ask me to rip the plant out and replace it. My friends and family love it because their gardens are full of beautiful perennials!

posted by heathermg on 2008-01-31 14:41:19
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Breathtaking garden design. Surreal is right.

posted by J. Cipa on 2008-01-31 18:20:47
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