Dutch gardens

Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.

The small Zeeland garden of Jopie Koens and Ton Alten has both a structure and planting style that is distinctively of its place. Words Noel Kingsbury, photographs Robert Mabic

Piet Oudolf has committed to designing a 1.5 acre garden near the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon

Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.

When we think of the Dutch landscape, water and flatness come to mind—a scene so "monotonous" that British writer Noel Kingsbury used to complain to Hollan

Behind the centuries-old houses that front the city's iconic canals lie verdant spaces rarely seen by the public: the secret gardens of Amsterdam

Continuing her series on designers' gardens, this month Clare Foster visits the Dutch garden of Piet Oudolf, the hub of his experimentation with plants for more than 30 years

Pollinators can find everything they need in this super low-maintenance landscape.

Great artists steal – and so do great gardeners. Recreate these stunning features from famous gardens in your own

These are dark days indeed. All traces of life slowly fade from the landscape as the hours shorten and shadows lengthen. The autumnal dance now done, the trees lie brittle and bare to the sky. The last perennials splay and shiver like a ghost army defeated by the rain and wind. But with this kind of darkness, there is nothing to fear.