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. Oudolf has long been at the forefront of the Dutch Wave and New Perennial Style
movements in garden design which have ecological considerations at their base. His work
stresses a deep knowledge of plants eschewing short-lived annuals in favor of perennials that
can be appreciated for both structure and blooms in every season. He is credited for leading
the way to today's focus on sustainability in garden design. The book will appeal to readers
who favor beautiful biodiverse and ever-changing plantings: seed heads grasses sedges and
winter silhouettes. They will be drawn into its pages by lush photography often demonstrating
how Oudolf views his own work and providing rare glimpses into his daily life. Short essays
highlight important techniques including scatter plants and matrix planting and introduce
other famed landscape designers-Karl Foerster Henk Gerritsen Rob Leopold Ernst Pagels and
Mien Ruys-to create a full panorama of the movement Oudolf now leads.
