Hummelo in September (Image by Piet Oudolf). Piet and Anja in Hummelo (Image by Rick Darke). As an influential member of the Dutch Wave and New Perennial Style movements, Oudolf’s focus on ecological systems and the structural possibilities of year-round perennial cycles and native grasses emphasizes knowledge of plants, long term gains, and landscapes that reveal depth and showcase organic geometries - rather than relying on showy, short-term blooming seasons or outrageous walls of color. In the intervening decades, the place has been the site of personal experiments in landscaping, as well as the nursery that enables the cultivation of many of Oudolf’s signature flowering perennials. An overview of the Hummelo property in the Netherlands (Image by Arjan Otten)Ĭo-written by the titular plantsman and Noel Kingsbury, Oudolf Hummelo (2021, Monacelli Press) captures work that began in 1982, when Piet and his wife Anja purchased an old farmhouse outside the eastern Netherlands village of Hummelo, and moved there with their two sons. Now, as winter descends upon the Northern hemisphere and gardeners close their beds and open their minds to new sources of inspiration for the coming season, a book from Monacelli Press takes a deep dive into Oudolf’s most personal garden: Hummelo. Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf is internationally famous for his garden installations - from the UK to mainland Europe, to the High Line park in New York City.
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