![]() ![]() But look at it now… still, you can still see the hellebores in flower, and soon the snowdrops will come, then the crocuses and the first leaves on the trees.”Ĭlockwise from top left: Oudolf-created environments at Hauser & Wirth Somerset Pensthorpe Nature Reserve The Ichthushof in Rotterdam New York’s The Battery Esquire “The garden always looks very wild at this time of year, and I don’t mind that. “This is the first time that this has happened in all the time we’ve lived here,” Oudolf continues. “Normally, at this time of year, the grasses stand tall and you’d see beautiful plant skeletons,” says Oudolf on a crisply wintry day as he surveys the carnage of snow-flattened foliage in the three acres of former farmland near the village of Hummelo, in a rural area of the eastern Netherlands, where he has lived and worked for over 35 years. Who wouldn’t be rattled if a snowstorm had damaged their garden so badly that the plants were completely crushed by the snow? Even so, it must be particularly galling when that happens to someone like Oudolf, the 73-year-old Dutchman who is not only hailed as one of the world’s leading garden designers, but who prides himself on using his skill and knowledge to create gardens that flourish the whole year round, whatever the season. ![]() ![]() ![]() Piet Oudolf is worried about his garden, and with good reason. ![]()
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