Even if you already have the original of this book, you'll want to consider this new, expanded paperback version that includes 13 recent projects shown here for the first time, along with Piet Oudolf's new strategies for design and plant selection.
Among the new gardens featured in Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life (Monacelli Press, 2021) are Phase three of the High Line in NYC, the Meadow Garden at the Delaware Botanical Garden, the Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle in Detroit, Maggie's Cancer Centre in London, The Singer Museum in the Netherlands, and other European projects. Oudolf also re-designed his own garden, Hummelo, which is no longer open for touring, but you'll be able to see photos of the ways he's incorporated new ideas.
In the preface to the new book, author and designer Noel Kingsbury notes that most of Oudolf's new designs and installations are done working with other designers in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. "If his output has increased," writes Kingsbury, "it is due to his collaborations with other plant-focused designers. This way of working, unconventional and outside the normal hierarchies of landscape firms, proofs [sic] to be highly effective." Kingsbury continues, "That he now has enough colleagues he trusts to help implement plans for several major projects at once is in itself a sign of how far he, and the naturalistic planting movement of which he is a key part, has come."
With 350 photographs, the book is an encyclopedia of Oudolf's planting style and his philosophy of looking to the natural world for inspiration.
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