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Planting

A New Perspective
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Planting by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury delves into innovative garden design, combining art with sustainability. The authors explore how to create dynamic, vibrant spaces that thrive year-round by using a combination of perennials and grasses. Their approach emphasises naturalistic planting, providing readers with insights to achieve stunning, enduring gardens.
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You might enjoy this book if you are passionate about garden design and love the idea of creating naturalistic, sustainable landscapes. It offers brilliant insights into plant artistry and the innovative approaches of a renowned designer, making it ideal for gardeners seeking inspiration in both aesthetics and ecological practices.

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Planting: A New Perspective, by famed landscape architects Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury, characterizes a ground-breaking moment in modern horticulture; the first book to share Oudolf's original planting plans and the only book to explicitly guide gardeners through how Oudolf's iconic landscapes are made.

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"Indispensable." -The New York Times Book Review Piet Oudolf's gardens-unique combinations of long-lived perennials and woody plants that are rich in texture and sophisticated in colour-are breath-taking and have deep emotional resonance.

With Planting, designers and home gardeners can recreate these plant-rich, beautiful gardens that support biodiversity and nourish the human spirit. An intimate knowledge of plants is essential to the success of modern landscape design, and Planting shares Oudolf's considerable understanding of plant ecology, explaining how plants behave in different situations, what goes on underground, and which species make good neighbors.

Extensive plant charts and planting plans will help you choose plants for their structure, colour, and texture. A detailed directory shares details like each plant's life expectancy, the persistence of its seedheads, and its propensity to self-seed.

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Planting by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury receives praise for its superb photography, which enhances the inspiring and informative content. It is highly recommended for thoughtful gardeners looking to deepen their understanding of design and plant selection.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604693706

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 April 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 268 color photos, 30 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 226.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1180g

Pages: 280

About the Author

Piet Oudolf is among the world s most innovative garden designers and a leading exponent of naturalistic planting, a style that takes inspiration from nature but employs artistic skill in creating planting schemes. Oudolf's extensive work over 30 years of practice includes public and private gardens all over the world. He is best known for his work on the High Line and Battery Park in New York, the Lurie Garden in Chicago's Millennium Park, and Potters Fields in London.Noel Kingsbury is a researcher, writer, and teacher. A gardener since childhood, he has run a nursery, designed gardens and public spaces, and done doctoral research at the University of Sheffield s Department of Landscape on the ecology of ornamental perennials. He lives and gardens in the Welsh Borders near Hay-on-Wye.

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