Hummelo
Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life
Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury
The Monacelli Press, March 2021 (Expanded edition)
Paperback | 6-3/4 x 9 inches | 432 pages | English | ISBN: 9781580935708 | $40.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
An intimate look at the personal garden of the Dutch landscape designer renowned for his plantings at the High Line in New York City, and Lurie Garden at Chicago?s Millennium Park.
Hummelo?near the village of the same name in Gelderland in the eastern Netherlands?is visited by thousands of gardeners seeking inspiration each year. It is Piet Oudolf?s home, his personal garden laboratory, a former nursery run by his wife Anja, and the place where he first tested new designs and created the new varieties of perennials that are now widely available. A follow-up to Oudolf?s successful Landscapes in Landscapes?Hummelo tells the story of how the garden has evolved over the past three decades since Oudolf, Anja, and their two young sons moved onto the property, with its loamy sand and derelict, wood stove-heated farmhouse, in 1982. Text by noted garden author and longtime personal friend Noel Kingsbury places Hummelo in context within gardening history, from The Netherlands? counterculture and nascent green movement of the 1960s, to prairie restoration in the American Midwest, and shows how its development has mirrored that of Oudolf?s own outstanding career and unique naturalistic aesthetic. ...
Piet Oudolf is an influential Dutch garden and...
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