Dutch Dynamic Designer-Duo Collaborates "from Scratch"
The choice of pink shades in the tulips echoes the weeping cherries in front of the Enid Haupt Conservatory and the crabapples behind the double walk. The green of the foliage, the white of the Tulipa 'Purissima' and Narcissus 'Thalia', and the blue-blossomed Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume' complete the Seasonal Walk's colorful spread.
Photos courtesy of the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center/North America
Two Dutch garden designers, Piet Oudolf of Hummelo and Jacqueline van der Kloet of Weesp have put their design talents together to create from scratch the New York Botanical Garden's Seasonal Walk. The Seasonal Walk is a broad garden path measuring 184 feet long by 10 feet wide and 86 feet long by six feet wide. It is adjacent to the glass-domed Enid Haupt Conservatory.
The Seasonal Walk project is a cooperative effort of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, NYC and Holland's International Flower Bulb Center in Hillegom, the Netherlands.
The two Dutch designers have worked together before on two projects, both in the U.S.??"Manhattan's Battery Park in 2006 and Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, Chicago in 2007.
The Seasonal Walk at the New York Botanical Garden is the inspiration of Dutch garden designers Piet Oudolf (left) and Jacqueline van der Kloet (far right).
Piet Oudolf is known for his artful uses of perennials and planting style of naturalistic combinations of native plants, perennials, grasses, bulbs and other plant material used to create harmonious landscapes that evolve over the seasons as landscapes do in nature. Over the past 30 years he has designed numerous residential gardens and small parks in his homeland and in England, Germany, Sweden and the U.S. He's currently working on the High Line in New York City with Field Operation landscape architects and the Goldman Sachs new headquarters in New York with Ken Smith Landscape Architects.
Jacqueline van der Kloet has run her own office since 1983, which specializes in garden designs and special plant schemes. She works for garden and landscape firms on a regular basis and is the author of several books. She creates stylish, eclectic designs with inspired mixes of perennials and flower bulbs with blooming shrubs and trees. Her gardens have a relaxed random feel that belie the thought put into plant placement.
The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in Danby, Vermont has created a website re this project https://seasonalwalk.com.
