https://www.inquirer.com/arts/calder-gardens-piet-oudolf-20250615.html
Pretty awesome article about the 'Gardens' part of Calder Gardens. This sounds like it will be an awesome addition to the parkway. I was not familiar with this landscape artist but his resume is amazing.
I really like this approach:
"Oudolf, 80, first opened a nursery in the Netherlands with his wife, Anja, in the 1980s. For him, planting a garden is a promise. Unlike old English gardens, his designs are not static; he’s not interested in maintaining what he lays out on day one. Rather, he has said, he puts his plants onstage and lets them perform, maturing into something more beautiful. It’s an approach toward gardening that utilizes nature, wildness, and time.
“He knows the plants, how they grow, what they become, and also how they can be combined in certain ways to induce certain emotional responses,” said James Corner, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and director of Field Operations, the New York landscape design firm that worked on the High Line with Oudolf. “He’s really an artistic poet with these plants. He just really knows how to paint with them, in an extraordinarily beautiful way.” "
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. There are at least 5-6 spots like that on every block. I love the look but they aren't without their issues.
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