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Gardening trends come and go and I have tried a few in my humble garden. I remember the terracotta style with yellow-sun-split gravel for an \u201cItalian\u201d terrace. A few years ago, after the children left the home, I decided on a more modern look. So in came Vietnamese bluestone, a green structure and a lot of Hortensia\u2019s Annabelle. And now it is time for a new phase; I was thinking \u201cPiet Oudolf\u201d!<\/em> Use what I found for Your garden inspired by Piet Oudolf.
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How to update your garden in Piet Oudolf style?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A trend, even called a movement, is the natural garden with an emphasis on perennials. Three  years ago I visited the New York High line for the first time. This beautiful park on the westside of Manhattan, built on a historic, elevated rail line had been  in the (dutch) garden magazines with a lot of attention to Piet Oudolf. Proud of “our” landscape designer, known for his use of plants in a natural garden. So I was curious. I loved the combinations of plants. It was January but attractive to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step: books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I loved it and started to buy one of his books: Planting, a new perspective<\/a> by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury. As they describe in the introduction, this is planting design for the twenty-first century, you learn about grouping and combining plants, how to intermingle, how the performance is of the plants in the long term “how perennial are perennials”, <\/em>plant names, the metrics and you will be inspired by all photographs and planting plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf have written four books in collaboration with each other. My “bible”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n