If you are wandering through Europe and if you love enchanted gardens, stop in Hummelo, in Netherlands. Here lives and works one of the most important representatives of landscape design, Piet Oudolf, founder of the Movement of New Perennials, an award-winning artist because of its international projects (one of them is the green design of New York’s new highlines). This Dutch master is primarily a big nurseryman who has strived for more than thirty years for the enhancement of wild plants, selecting and classifying more new species. The deep knowledge of the life cycle and of the seasonal colors of the so-called “poor plants”, such as the grasses, led him to use them at best in its projects, creating wonderfully elegant and also very natural parks. Its green philosophy is inspired by the botanical universe as well as that of art, and it materialized in that rare and happy harmony of nature and culture that makes us proud to belong to mankind.

Piet Oudolf’s garden – Hummelo (NL)
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