Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Q&A and book-signing with Jan Johnsen, author of the brand-new Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

“Reveals gardens you’d look forward to getting lost in, gardens that brilliantly use the interplay of form and color to do wonderful things to your soul.” (LA Times)

Piet Oudolf, who is best known here for his groundbreaking designs for New York’s High Line and Chicago’s Lurie Gardens, has radically redefined what gardens can be. The documentary immerses us in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process, as we tag along on visits to his signature public works and wander his own gardens as well. The film also follows Oudolf to Southwest England, where he is immersed in a new project, a garden he considers his best work yet. This poetic, mesmerizing documentary reveals how Oudolf upends our conventional notions of nature, public space, and even beauty itself. “Plants were characters I could compose with, put on stage,” he says. “This is what I do: I let them perform.”

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Q&A and book-signing with Jan Johnsen, author of the brand-new Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
Q&A and book-signing with Jan Johnsen, author of the brand-new Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
Thursday, Apr. 25 2019, 7:00
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Jan Johnsen has been in landscape and horticulture for more than 40 years. Her New York–based design-build firm, Johnsen Landscapes and Pools, counts many well-known people among its clientele. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including This Old House and Horticulture, and she is a contributing editor to Garden Design.

This film is part of the Focus on Nature 2019 series.



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