Five Great Grasses from the Oudolf Garden
Piet Oudolf knows grasses. His planting designs in Europe and the United States are masterful mixes of textures, colors, and seasonal highlights. He consulted on planting designs for the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park and the High Line in New York, both of which use a matrix of grasses to support a wide range of perennials. Piet’s knowledge and experience with grasses make his gardens a must-see for grass lovers.
Piet’s home garden in the Netherlands illustrates the integral role that grasses play in his designs. This August, John and Jill Hoffman, along with their son, David, visited the Oudolf garden. Henk de Jong of CNB New Plants arranged the visit, and went with them to the garden. The group spent time meandering and talking with Piet. Which grasses caught their eye?
1. Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ (Feather Reed Grass)
The large, open areas of the garden are punctuated by plantings of Feather Reed Grass and Joe Pye Weed. The plumes of this popular, cool season grass appear in spring and persist well into the fall. ‘Karl Foerster’ has an architecture that Oudolf refers to as “emergent.” Most of
Roy Diblik
Roy’s question has been and continues to be how he moves from the awareness of plants living within their naturally inherent, healthy lifestyles to a genuine presence and practice of growing plants and designing plant communities that will flourish from youth into maturity, living well into the planting’s future and sharing that knowledge with others.
Roy believes the nature of nature is always dynamic. That the only right thing to do is stay curious within its beauty.
A planting should begin with a smart, healthy, plant driven approach and that a garden’s final moment
occurs when the possibilities for the garden disappear.
Roy’s knowledge of plants comes from the plants themselves and the knowledgeable people he’s come to know.
Without their knowledge of place, plants and practices he not would understand the context of the planted world.
He is clear that coming to know plants and people is essential to create healthy, long lived plantings.
Whatever your gardening goals may be, the healthiest results come from plant knowledge which supports healthy plant communities designed
CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring gardeners great plants – whether introducing native plants to the horticultural trade, selecting best garden-varieties from naturally occurring choices, by breeding, and by educating both the trade and gardeners in their gardens on best cultivation of these same plants.
This week's guest on Cultivating Place is one such well known and long respected plantsperson who has helped to shift our horticultural world for the better these past many decades – Roy Diblik.
Roy who began selecting and propagating native plants for ecologically and beautiful gardens beginning in the s and as a gardener, nurseryman, writer and thinker he went on to co-found Northwind Perennials Farm, a nursery and garden design business based in Burlington, Wisconsin, serving public and private gardens and gardeners. Roy is an expert at creating compelling and ecologically-contributing combinations of native and nonnative plants using methods he variously describes as waterc
The Know Maintenance™ Perennial Gardens of Roy Diblik
Internationally recognized perennial expert Roy Diblik specializes in growing traditional and Midwest native perennials that are used extensively in thoughtfully designed, sustainable plant communities. He explains his Know Maintenance approach in detail in his book, The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden(Timber Press, )Diblik believes every gardener, regardless of their level of skill or size of their space, can grow an ecologically directed, aesthetically pleasing garden with four season appeal. Over the past three decades of growing and designing with hardy perennials, he’s developed a list of favorites that complement one another in sustainable communities. The list includes a mix of natives, drought tolerant species, pollinator hosts and food sources, and plants with multiple seasons of interest.
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