![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But this is the last time they will do so. He and his wife, Anja, who runs the business with him, have opened the garden to the public for a few days a week each summer since 1982, shortly after moving to Hummelo. Oudolf, now seventy-three, has cultivated and studied thousands of species on his three-acre plot in Hummelo to observe how each one responds to changes in the weather and light, and whatever else is growing around it. It belongs to the Dutch plantsman, Piet Oudolf, who has used it as a nursery-cum-laboratory for over thirty-five years to research the planting schemes he has designed for, among other places, the High Line in New York and Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Summer after summer, garden lovers from all over the world have traveled to Hummelo, a remote farming community in the eastern Netherlands, to visit a remarkable garden. ![]()
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