Planting the Natural Garden

Piet Oudolf is renowned worldwide for his imaginative garden designs. Most of the plants he uses to furnish those gardens come from the nursery he runs with his wife, Anja, near Arnhem, in the Netherlands. Among the gardens he has designed are the Dromparken in Enkoping, Sweden; two great borders at the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley; and private gardens in various countries. The garden he designed with Arne Maynard for the Chelsea 2000 Flower Show won the Best Garden Award. In that same year he won the prestigious Millennium Garden Design Competition, earning him a commission from the City of Chicago to design a new park together with landscape artist Kathryn Gustafson. In 2002 he was asked to design the Gardens of Remembrance at The Battery, New York Distinguished garden designer Henk Gerritsen runs the Priona gardens, which he created in 1978 in Schuinesloot, in the Netherlands. In a range of individually designed gardens, thousands of wild and cultivated plants grow side by side in natural-looking environments. All of this has been made possible by Gerritsen's comprehensive knowledge of the plants' reliability and relative growing strengthsOudolf, Piet is the author of 'Planting the Natural Garden' with ISBN 9780881926064 and ISBN 088192606X.