The Art of the Garden, Series 2, Piet Oudolf
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Published 2023-12-29
Colonial Pictures London, Sky Arts, docu, 45 min.
Forty years ago the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf rebelled against the use of annuals in favour of perennials.
He led the New Perennial Movement – also known as ‘The Dutch Wave’ – and it changed garden design forever. His first major garden in this style was Scampston Hall in Yorkshire
and it looks as good today as it did then.
All Comments (16)
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Music and gardening bring us closer to our Heavenly Father. I so appreciate the love that wells up in gardening. Nobody should ever be able to tell anyone else what to grow
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Thanks so much for posting. It was not possible to watch the original screening from North America, so this is a gift for garden lovers of Piet Oudolf's sublime New Perennial style.
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For many many years, my family had a rural property more or less a stone's throw from Hummelo - where I gardened only a bit because there was the thing called work and because we were only there on weekends. Now I live in eastern Canada on a 1 ha property with a view over a bay and I've spent 20 years growing a garden - a messy garden with a pond and a sizable wild flower patch and fruit trees and berry bushes and grasses and one classic flower bed. And I suppose my Dutch instincts are at work because one time an American friend came to visit and told me that my garden was unlike any North American garden, but that it did remind him of his cousin's garden in Denmark. I didn't really become aware of Piet Oudolf's work until I walked the highline in NY about 10 years ago! So now I've watched this beautiful documentary and I do think I need a few more grasses...............
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Schitterend! Heb enorm genoten van deze aflevering. Piet Oudolf is echt een legende in de tuinwereld.
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He really does have a talent for creating a natural garden.
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Such a humble man, so talented 💚
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Stunning!!!!
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Sublime is the word!
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I feel the same way Sir!
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thank you.
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I love this.. but my grandfather had a perennial garden and I am 80 years old. Lots of this depends on site and what the plants are growing in naturally. Try this in a Northern Michigan and it will look like an overgrown farm field. A little color adds to our enjoyment of life. He depends a lot on what I think is box and not only can't you grow this in a zone 4 garden but if it goes... to some bug or other attack... you ail see all the decay you want.
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Een enorme verbetering op al wat voor zijn tijd modieus was, maar nog steeds niet overtuigd van dat afgrijselijke siergras! 😢
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That’s known in Japan for centuries, Wabi Sabi.
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Why are some areas blurred? I feel like I am going blind. It’s really distracting.
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There's nothing remarkable about using perennials in the garden. It's not remarkable that Oudolf uses ONLY perennials, as many great and famous English borders use only perennials. His style certainly IS remarkable, though not for using perennials, but rather for using them in new ways.
