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Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New Ame... by Stefan Leppert Hardback
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Quarto Publishing Group UK
ISBN-10
0711227500
ISBN-13
9780711227507
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Book Title
Ornamental Grasses : Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
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Plants / General, Landscape, General, Garden Design, Ornamental Plants
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Yes
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Nature, Gardening
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Hardcover
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0.6 in
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30 oz
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10.1 in
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9.4 in
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Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Gardenby Stefan Leppert is an interesting mix of biography, history lesson and landscape design primer. For a landscape designer, like myself, previewing the book was like eating a big bowl of my favorite ice cream a guilty pleasure. In case you're not familiar with the New American Garden movement, suffice it to say that Wolfgang Oehme and his design partner, James van Sweden, are the fathers of the movement. A New American Garden is filled with wide swaths of ornamental grasses and perennials such as black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago) and sedum to name just a few. It is an anti-lawn movement that finds beauty in wide open expanses of prairie plantings rather than turf grass. Ornamental Grasseslooks at the professional life of Wolfgang Oehme - how he was influenced by Karl Foerster, his friendship with Kurl Bluemel and his collaborations with James van Sweden. All names any gardener interested in ornamental grasses and the New American style knows well. Stefan Leppert tells Oehme's story through the many public and private gardens he has designed. The book is full of breathtaking photos of these wonderful gardens that have indeed influenced so much of what we do as gardeners today. I found it so interesting to read how Oehme created the market for ornamental grasses because they were unavailable here in the US. The book ends with a list of 'Wolfi-Plants'. These are plants Oehme has used over and over in his designs. According to Leppert, Oehme looks for four qualities in a plant: stability, robustness, flowering duration and competitiveness. Based on those qualities, Oehme's benchmark plant is Periscaria polymorpha. If you're thinking about turning an area of your lawn into a version of Oehme's New American garden then you'll want to check out Ornamental Grasses for inspiration (and the extensive plant list). -From Gardenofpossibilities.com, A good example of how the native-plant movement is affecting more mainstream designers is that of Oehme-van Sweden Associates in the United States. Both Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, the founders of this highly successful partnership, trained as landscape architects after originally studying in other disciplines -- van Sweden as an architect and Oehme (who was born in Germany) as a horticulturalist. The two men have always been critical of the vast areas of sterile lawn and fiercely clipped shrubs that are such a feature of the American landscape. Instead they have used large drifts of ornamental grasses and perennials to create a quilted look, although in their private garden work they developed a much greater level of complexity. In their 'classic' work there was no intermingling of species, and much of the visual effect was gained from using large monocultural blocks. The practice is, however, now changing its approach to planting design, through younger project managers and partners developing their own style, which often involves a much greater use of native vegetation and more subtle intermingling of plant varieties. From Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space by Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf, An authoritative chronicle of the work of one of America's most influential plantsmen, best known in the context of Oehme Van Sweden, the design duo who greened Canary Wharf and who helped to popularise prairie planting, the swathesof the perennials and grasses that now cloak our landscapes and gardens. Still a fiercely debated topic, the section on Oehme's favourite plants should at least settle some arguments over garden-worthy grasses. Not a guide to ornamental grasses but a chronicle of a famous maverick plantsman, there's much to enjoy. If you are a plant-aholic and cannot resist buying one of everything in the garden centre, Ornamental Grasses by Stefan Leppart could change your life. A must for anyone who has a dull expanse of lawn and longs for something better., Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden by Stefan Leppert is an interesting mix of biography, history lesson and landscape design primer. For a landscape designer, like myself, previewing the book was like eating a big bowl of my favorite ice cream – a guilty pleasure. In case you're not familiar with the New American Garden movement, suffice it to say that Wolfgang Oehme and his design partner, James van Sweden, are the fathers of the movement. A New American Garden is filled with wide swaths of ornamental grasses and perennials such as black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago) and sedum to name just a few. It is an anti-lawn movement that finds beauty in wide open expanses of prairie plantings rather than turf grass. Ornamental Grasses looks at the professional life of Wolfgang Oehme - how he was influenced by Karl Foerster, his friendship with Kurl Bluemel and his collaborations with James van Sweden. All names any gardener interested in ornamental grasses and the New American style knows well. Stefan Leppert tells Oehme's story through the many public and private gardens he has designed. The book is full of breathtaking photos of these wonderful gardens that have indeed influenced so much of what we do as gardeners today. I found it so interesting to read how Oehme created the market for ornamental grasses because they were unavailable here in the US. The book ends with a list of ‘Wolfi-Plants'. These are plants Oehme has used over and over in his designs. According to Leppert, Oehme looks for four qualities in a plant: stability, robustness, flowering duration and competitiveness. Based on those qualities, Oehme's benchmark plant is Periscaria polymorpha. If you're thinking about turning an area of your lawn into a version of Oehme's New American garden then you'll want to check out Ornamental Grasses for inspiration (and the extensive plant list). -From Gardenofpossibilities.com, An authoritative chronicle of the work of one of America's most influential plantsmen, best known in the context of Oehme Van Sweden, the design duo who greened Canary Wharf and who helped to popularise prairie planting, the swathesof the perennials and grasses that now cloak our landscapes and gardens. Still a fiercely debated topic, the section on Oehme's favourite plants should at least settle some arguments over garden-worthy grasses., A good example of how the native-plant movement is affecting more mainstream designers is that of Oehme-van Sweden Associates in the United States. Both Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, the founders of this highly successful partnership, trained as landscape architects after originally studying in other disciplines - van Sweden as an architect and Oehme (who was born in Germany) as a horticulturalist. The two men have always been critical of the vast areas of sterile lawn and fiercely clipped shrubs that are such a feature of the American landscape. Instead they have used large drifts of ornamental grasses and perennials to create a quilted look, although in their private garden work they developed a much greater level of complexity. In their 'classic' work there was no intermingling of species, and much of the visual effect was gained from using large monocultural blocks. The practice is, however, now changing its approach to planting design, through younger project managers and partners developing their own style, which often involves a much greater use of native vegetation and more subtle intermingling of plant varieties. From Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space by Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf, Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden by Stefan Leppert is an interesting mix of biography, history lesson and landscape design primer. For a landscape designer, like myself, previewing the book was like eating a big bowl of my favorite ice cream a guilty pleasure. In case you're not familiar with the New American Garden movement, suffice it to say that Wolfgang Oehme and his design partner, James van Sweden, are the fathers of the movement. A New American Garden is filled with wide swaths of ornamental grasses and perennials such as black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago) and sedum to name just a few. It is an anti-lawn movement that finds beauty in wide open expanses of prairie plantings rather than turf grass. Ornamental Grasses looks at the professional life of Wolfgang Oehme - how he was influenced by Karl Foerster, his friendship with Kurl Bluemel and his collaborations with James van Sweden. All names any gardener interested in ornamental grasses and the New American style knows well. Stefan Leppert tells Oehme's story through the many public and private gardens he has designed. The book is full of breathtaking photos of these wonderful gardens that have indeed influenced so much of what we do as gardeners today. I found it so interesting to read how Oehme created the market for ornamental grasses because they were unavailable here in the US. The book ends with a list of 'Wolfi-Plants'. These are plants Oehme has used over and over in his designs. According to Leppert, Oehme looks for four qualities in a plant: stability, robustness, flowering duration and competitiveness. Based on those qualities, Oehme's benchmark plant is Periscaria polymorpha. If you're thinking about turning an area of your lawn into a version of Oehme's New American garden then you'll want to check out Ornamental Grasses for inspiration (and the extensive plant list). From Gardenofpossibilities.com, Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden by Stefan Leppert is an interesting mix of biography, history lesson and landscape design primer. For a landscape designer, like myself, previewing the book was like eating a big bowl of my favorite ice cream - a guilty pleasure. In case you're not familiar with the New American Garden movement, suffice it to say that Wolfgang Oehme and his design partner, James van Sweden, are the fathers of the movement. A New American Garden is filled with wide swaths of ornamental grasses and perennials such as black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia), goldenrod (Solidago) and sedum to name just a few. It is an anti-lawn movement that finds beauty in wide open expanses of prairie plantings rather than turf grass. Ornamental Grasses looks at the professional life of Wolfgang Oehme - how he was influenced by Karl Foerster, his friendship with Kurl Bluemel and his collaborations with James van Sweden. All names any gardener interested in ornamental grasses and the New American style knows well. Stefan Leppert tells Oehme's story through the many public and private gardens he has designed. The book is full of breathtaking photos of these wonderful gardens that have indeed influenced so much of what we do as gardeners today. I found it so interesting to read how Oehme created the market for ornamental grasses because they were unavailable here in the US. The book ends with a list of 'Wolfi-Plants'. These are plants Oehme has used over and over in his designs. According to Leppert, Oehme looks for four qualities in a plant: stability, robustness, flowering duration and competitiveness. Based on those qualities, Oehme's benchmark plant is Periscaria polymorpha. If you're thinking about turning an area of your lawn into a version of Oehme's New American garden then you'll want to check out Ornamental Grasses for inspiration (and the extensive plant list). -From Gardenofpossibilities.com
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712.60943
Table Of Content
Gardens featured: The Vollmer Garden: Baltimore, Maryland The Federal Reserve Bank: Washington DC Pennsylvania Avenue: Washington DC The German-American Friendship Garden: Washington DC Nelson A Rockefeller Park: Battery Park, New York The Rosenberg Garden: Long Island, New York Private gardens: Long Island, New York Pennsylvania Virginia Maryland Chesapeake Bay German public projects: Magdeburg Chemnitz Bitterfeld
Synopsis
Wolfgang Oehme is one of the most important garden designers of the last 30 years. In partnership with James Van Sweden, who contributes an essay to this book, he ushered in the revolutionary garden style known as the New American Garden. Eschewing previous conventions such as vast lawns, clipped shrubs, and dreary beds of annuals, the New American garden embodies the simple beauty and grandeur of the prairie, defining itself with large sweeps of herbaceous perennials and grasses. The feeling of sheer beauty and calmness that pervades Oehme's gardens is a reminder of our connection to nature. Ornamental Grasses chronicles Oehme's professional journey, from his childhood in war-torn Germany to his immense success in the United States, all the while exploring his remarkable career, both solo and in partnership with Van Sweden. Over 200 gorgeous photographs depict dreamlike gardens, "Wolfi" plants, people, and much more., A highly illustrated summary of the career of Wolfgang Oehme, whose prarie-style New American Garden has been one of the most influential movements in recent garden design., Wolfgang Oehme, in partnership with James Van Sweden, has been one of the most influential garden designers of the last thirty years. Together they have spearheaded the revolutionary garden style known as the New American Garden. Encompassing the simple beauty and grandeur of the prairie, the New American Garden is defined by large sweeps of herbaceous perennials and grasses, in contrast to such previous conventions as vast sterile lawns, clipped shrubs and annuals. This book is the first to chronicle the professional journey of Wolfgang Oehme. From his childhood in war torn Germany and his postwar forays around Europe, the scene shifts to the eastern US and Oehme's remarkable career as a garden designer, his highly successful partnership with James van Sweden with their landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc., and ultimately to his successful solo projects in his German homeland and the US. Lauded as a 'garden book of the year' in the original German edition, the book is bursting with dreamlike gardens, original drawings and observations.Of considerable interest to gardeners wishing to follow Oehme's lead, a final section illustrates a selection of 'Wolfi plants', the most beloved and characteristic ingredients of this great designer's work., Wolfgang Oehme, in partnership with James Van Sweden, has been one of the most influential garden designers of the last thirty years. Together they have spearheaded the revolutionary garden style known as the New American Garden. Encompassing the simple beauty and grandeur of the prairie, the New American Garden is defined by large sweeps of herbaceous perennials and grasses, in contrast to such previous conventions as vast sterile lawns, clipped shrubs and annuals. This book is the first to chronicle the professional journey of Wolfgang Oehme. From his childhood in war torn Germany and his postwar forays around Europe, the scene shifts to the eastern US and Oehme's remarkable career as a garden designer, his highly successful partnership with James van Sweden with their landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc., and ultimately to his successful solo projects in his German homeland and the US. Lauded as a 'garden book of the year' in the original German edition, the book is bursting with dreamlike gardens, original drawings and observations. Of considerable interest to gardeners wishing to follow Oehme's lead, a final section illustrates a selection of 'Wolfi plants', the most beloved and characteristic ingredients of this great designer's work.
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