The Oudolf Field Through The Seasons

6 Feb

A garden through the seasons- the ‘Oudolf Field’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

The ‘Oudolf Field” is a 1.5 acre perennial meadow style garden designed by Piet Oudolf which is in the grounds of the contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth at Durslade Farm in Somerset. The garden is designed to have year-round interest and is a joy to see in every season. I particularly love visiting the garden in the height of summer, and in autumn with all the seed heads.

The first collection of photos are from a visit to the field in August, which is peak summertime in Somerset. All the flowers were covered in bees & butterflies and the whole field was a riot of summer colour!

Echinacea flowers in August at the Oudolf field.

I love the ‘Chinese Meadow Rue’ - ‘Thalictrum Delavayi’ in summertime.

White Bistort- Persicaria ‘Alba’ (on the left) & Burnet- Sanguisorba ‘Proud Mary’ (on the right).

Garden views in summer.

Echinacea, Sedums & Anemones fill the field.

The next series of photos were taken on an early autumn visit to the ‘Oudolf Field’.

Swathes of white anemones interspersed with grasses.

The bold and beautiful colours still remain in early autumn.

In early autumn the flowers are starting to fade, and the seed head structures are left to frame the garden for the season ahead and into Winter.

The ‘Oudolf Field’ in the depths of Winter. Seed-heads frame the whole garden in wintertime.

I really enjoy the stillness of winter in the field with all the seed-heads structures filling the space.

The ‘Oudolf Field’ in spring-these photos were taken in May. The cycle of the garden starts again-with all the plants bursting into a new season of growth for the months ahead.