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The Oudolf Landscape

In the redesigned Oudolf Landscape you can drift through ‘rivers’ of foliage and flowers as you enjoy glorious views down to the Glasshouse

Looking its best in...

  • Summer Large drifts of flowering perennials intermingled with grasses and a backdrop of structural shrubby planting
  • Autumn Autumn colour on deciduous grasses and shapely seedheads.
  • Winter Seedheads are left standing through winter, to provide birds with valuable food.
Sinuous paths weave through the immersive Oudolf Landscape

Spectacular new landscape

Situated between the Viewing Mount and The Glasshouse Landscape, the Glasshouse Borders have had a radical facelift to become the wonderful Oudolf Landscape, which opened on 15 May 2024.

Dutch garden designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf created the original borders more than 20 years ago and work has now finished on their redesign. The newly planted landscape will allow visitors to be enveloped in his signature ‘New Perennial’ style.
36,000 perennials have been planted in the new borders

Fun facts about the new borders

  • The new scheme has 36,000 perennials
  • Approximately 5,000 plants have been grown in-house   
  • 3000m² of planted beds 
  • 162 different types of perennials 
Seven new oak benches provide the perfect spot to sit and enjoy the new view

  • 1200m of steel edging
  • 300m of timber edging
  • 1500 m² of self-binding gravel path
  • The landscape will feature seven oak benches made in the UK by Oxford Oak 

Piet Oudolf transforms the Glasshouse Borders

New planting scheme by Piet Oudolf

Renowned plantsman Piet Oudolf explains his exciting new plans to transform the borders near the Glasshouse

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