One of the reasons we started this blog was really to share all the interesting tidbits & designer favourites amongst our staff and the people we work with. One favourite that springs to mind for one of our Sydneysiders is Piet Oudolf. For those of you who haven’t heard of him he’s an influential Dutch garden designer and author. He’s one of the leading figures of the “New Perennial” or “New Wave Planting” movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennial plants and grasses which are chosen for their structure as much as for their flower colour (if not more so).

His books include Gardening With Grasses (1998) (with Michael King and Beth Chatto), Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (2000) and Planting the Natural Garden (2003) (both with Henk Gerritsen), Designing With Plants (1999) and Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space (2005) (both with Noel Kingsbury).

His list of design projects includes Battery Park (New York, 2003), ABN Amro Bank (Netherlands, 2000), Hoogeland (Netherlands, 2001), the Lurie Garden, a gigantic green roof over the car park of Millennium Park (Chicago, 2003 – with Kathryn Gustafson) and Scampston Hall (England, 2002-2003).

Well worth a look if you haven’t checked him out already. Enjoy.