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"Mother Nature may make meadows, but Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf perfects them. Most famous of his creations is the High Line in New York City, an approximately 1.4-mile-long park in the sky that is the result of a collaboration with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the landscape-architecture and urban-design firm James Corner Field Operations. Abandoned elevated railroad tracks have given way to an undulating promenade framed by seasonal sweeps of vegetation, including Sicilian honey garlic, rudbeckia, coneflowers, joe-pye weed, and \u2018Shenandoah' red switchgrass.\n\nPinterestFacebookRenowned Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. Photo: Wilco van Dijen \u00A9Uitgeverij Terra Lannoo bv\n\nThe High Line, which opened in 2009 and has sparked horticultural reclamation projects in similarly blighted urban areas, is just one of the dozens of public and private commissions that bloom between the covers of Oudolf's new book, Planting: A New Perspective(Timber Press), which he cowrote with frequent literary collaborator Noel Kingsbury. Packed with detailed and enticingly adaptable plans, the 280-page volume is a one-stop seminar of the Oudolfian system of gardening, which is as much about advance planning as it is about total chance.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Planting* (Timber Press, $39.95). Photo courtesy of Timber Press\n\n\"Structure is the basis of all planting combinations, but traditional gardening has a lot of dogmas. I prefer to let things go their own way,\" Oudolf says, in a telephone interview from his home in Hummelo, the Netherlands, where he lives with his wife, Anja, and operates his studio. Plants that sprout far from their original location, for instance, are allowed to thrive rather than being ripped out, which enhances a free-and-easy feeling that some observers might call wild but Oudolf prefers to describe as spontaneity. As he explains, \"A garden should be monitored and maintained but also have a balance between control and no control.\" Which means you might want to let up on the weeding here and there.\n\nTo see more of the magical gardens featured in the book, click here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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