Oudolf Hummelo : a journey through a plantsman's life
(Book)

Includes index.

"This expanded edition of Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life traces Oudolf's work from early designs in the Netherlands to the international collaborations that he focuses on today. Nearly a dozen recent projects are presented here for the first time, with the origins of the commission and the design process meticulously described and the completed gardens beautifully illustrated with lush images, many taken by Oudolf himself."--Page 4 of cover.

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.00A 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.