Q&A: Piet Oudolf on Designing a Winter Garden

[lsanderson]

Spires of echinacea in Piet Oudolf’s garden in Hummelo, the Netherlands. More Photos »
By SARA BARRETT
Published: February 9, 2011

GARDENS in winter are typically deemed dormant, but Piet Oudolf believes that they shouldn’t be. Mr. Oudolf, who is Dutch, is the leading exemplar of the New Perennials landscape movement, which holds that plants should be chosen for shape and texture more than for color. More

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[pameladean]

Thanks for this link; that was excellent.

Or maybe I just like being vindicated in my refusal to chop down all the dead plants in October. I had figured that they provided wintering-over spots for beneficial insects and that the stalks would capture snow and help protect the crowns of the plants from damage (not exactly a problem THIS year). Who knew I was being aesthetic too?

P.