In his gardens, the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf creates complex textural mosaics of muted colours.
Piet Oudolf - Summer / Cloister Courtyard
The mix displays matrixs of the delicately upright Gillenia trifoliata with wispy white flowers and horizontal layers of Kirengeshoma palmata leaves topped by delicate pale yellow bells in late summer, globes of grey-green baptisia leaves and feathery plumes of deschampsia, accents of bronze- leaved actaea, and the contrast of blood-red astrantia
Piet Oudolf - Winter / Durslade farm
Example of Piet Oudolf plan
Block planting and matrix planting by Piet Oudolf. Matrix planting is a planting that is based on few species with the variety of other species coming thought.