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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Piet Oudolf has done projects around the world, notably in the US and the UK. Today I talk with Tom Piper about how the locale of a project influences his design choices in the garden.
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0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening show. We are joined by Tom Piper. |
0:07.0 | He is the award-winning director of the film Five Seasons, which is a profile of the Dutch Garden designer Pete O'Dolf. |
0:15.0 | And actually this film is out in the US, but the UK release is coming up. |
0:19.0 | So it'll be June 13th in London with a UK wide release after that. So if you are a UK listener, |
0:25.4 | definitely put that on your calendar and go check it out. It's going to be really |
0:28.4 | cool. So today I thought Tom we could talk a little bit about some of the differences or perhaps |
0:34.1 | just some of the projects in general that he does in the US and the UK and if there |
0:38.8 | is a difference in the style because it's all coming from the same person but of course every |
0:43.6 | project and every geography is different. Yeah it's and it's probably I mean Pete |
0:50.1 | would probably be the first to say it's not not, he doesn't ever change his style. |
0:53.5 | I mean, he's pretty adamant about that, |
0:55.4 | but I think it's more also that it's, what I think is interesting |
0:59.5 | is, I mean, two things. |
1:01.1 | One, it was in the US that he sort of had his first real |
1:06.2 | opportunities or big opportunities to do public gardens and so I think that was pretty |
1:11.9 | significant for for him in his career. |
1:15.0 | But also, what's interesting to me is to realize and to learn about where a lot of these plants come from and that in fact a lot of the plants that he and then you know he was part of this sort of it sometimes referred to as a new German movement or the new Dutch wave, but the sort of idea of starting to use perennials and specific kinds of perennials, a lot of grasses, but plants that hadn't been used in gardens before or weren't |
1:45.0 | considered garden plants and it turns out that a lot of those plants are North |
1:51.1 | American natives that had sort of come over to Europe and were being |
1:55.2 | used you know propagated in these kind of interesting nurseries and being |
1:58.9 | starting to be put into into you know used with intention in gardens or plantings. |
2:05.0 | And so that I found really fascinating and actually then what, |
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