![]() It is not that you lose control, but that you start to look differently. At that time we didn’t even think about the birds, but only about aesthetics and how we could extend this beauty through the seasons. We stopped cutting back the plants too early-the skeletons were attractive enough to leave. We found that the best way was to leave plants to go to seed. ![]() We started to discuss what we could do to make gardens more attractive not only for ourselves but also as living things. Traditional gardening is a sort of super-control of everything that happens there. Piet Oudolf: I’ve always seen gardening as control. Was that a methodology that was honed in this laboratory of your own garden? ![]() I’ve always been interested in the idea of how to negotiate control and not control, or organization and self-organization. Hans Ulrich Obrist: Piet, it would be great to hear more about your own garden at Hummelo, because I know you’ve left it to change freely with the seasons, in a very organic way. ![]()
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