Low-maintenance is often interpreted as no maintenance. Great grasses for sun include briza and featuca. For sun, veronica, aster, salvia and sedum work. For shade, top plants include ferns, epimedium, tiarella and geranium while shady grasses like luzula and carex are great. There are a lot of great “starter” plants ideally suited for all types of environments. You can plant onions that look good for seasons like summer or spring - just make sure they’re not eaten by deer or pests. When working on small urban gardens in NYC - places like rooftops, backyards or terraces - go for what catches your eye. I see it as an opportunity to do something beautiful the challenge arises only when you are looking back. Most of my work is challenging, but I don’t see it that way at the start. Most clients know me from my public work. When I’m designing a private garden, the personality of the owners and their lifestyle comes into play. Also in NYC, the High Line has very good gardeners, who are well trained and eager to share their plant knowledge with visitors. Wherever I go, I love to visit botanical gardens - especially the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
I travel a lot to see clients in the Netherlands, in Scandinavia and England and I’m in the US five to six times a year. Rosario/Courtesy of Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Hummelo, also the name of my hometown in Holland, is in the middle of the countryside nestled among farmers. We escaped the city because we wanted to grow plants and we needed space. The founders, architects and people who take care of it make the park unique and hard to compare with any other green space. It is the most satisfying because it is public and in a neighborhood that has evolved so much over the past decades. Of all the projects I designed, the High Line is my favorite. We caught up with Oudolf, to talk about designs, Hummelo (which he and his wife Anja have tended to for the past 30 years) and his personal tips for home gardeners. Written with gardening author Noel Kingsbury, the book is named after Oudolf’s personal garden in Arnhem and is ideal for green thumbs who have been seduced by Oudolf’s deeply beautiful plantings. Decades later, his designs and career are being celebrated in a stunning new book: “Oudolf/Hummelo” (Monticello Press $50).
We built huts, climbed trees and freed rabbits from poacher snares,” he says. “We climbed over the fence to a nature preserve every day.
Oudolf, 70, fell in love with the outdoors as a young boy. Handout Based in the Dutch countryside town of Arnhem, Oudolf is known for lush, green projects across the US - from Battery Gardens in NYC to Chicago’s Millennium Park - along with projects in England, Ireland and Scandinavia. As the creative genius behind the planting on the High Line, Dutch garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf is a plant-world rock star.
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