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Sunday, May 22, 2011

BREAKING NEWS – Oudolf rips out hedge shock …and the joy of pleasing the inhabitants of Bexhill-on-Sea.



A lot of us will know the famous hedge at the back of Piet Oudolf's garden... well it's gone..


Read all about it here........

3 comments:

  1. Written while I await the mercurial courier to deliver your new co-tome 'L x L' here in Toronto. Today would be nice UPS!

    I'm stunned/gobsmacked/shellshocked (and slightly titillated) to learn of the de-hedging in Hummelo. For me, if that was a cliché then so is a buddha statue. It was as enigmatically serene. The nursery gone too... wow.

    I feel doubly fortunate to have visited on Grass Days in 2009 where in fact, I took shelter in aformentioned hedge as a squall soaked the garden. And later had the chance to meet Piet who proved a gracious and thoughtful host.

    I guess genius is fearless, almost by definition. Farewell wave to the wave.

    BTW: Thx Noel for your myriad-minded writings. Post punk gardeners like myself chew on every word.

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  2. Perhaps it's now OK to say it was the one part of his garden I never liked, though only because it seemed wrong with the rest of his style, not because I object to it in principle.
    I can't wait to see what he does in it's place.

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