Closing Time: Goodbye to Hummelo

After nearly 40 years of welcoming the world through its gates, the private garden of Piet and Anja Oudolf at Hummelo will close to the public for good at the end of this month.

For all lovers of this most quintessential garden that galvanized an entire movement in naturalistic planting design, the news cuts deep.

Word of its closing has spread like wildfire-weed amongst garden folk and it’s inspired a kind of spontaneous pilgrimage of people visiting Kwekerij Oudolf one last time.

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The New Perennialism: Open Source Planting Design

This is a movement which belongs to no one.

In truth, because the New Perennial movement can belong to anyone and everyone.

First and foremost, it’s about seeing plants in all their four-dimensional splendour and experiencing the slow-motion fireworks, which ensue as they flow and interact.

You don’t need a garden to do that. Just the pupils in your eyes.

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