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The garden at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Somerset is a planting installation by garden designer Piet Oudolf called the Oudolf Field. Here you’ll find 24 of the key plants that make up the stunning perennial meadow garden. Photographs: Jason Ingram <\/p>

By alyshurn\n <\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 07 November 2023 at 10:42 AM<\/p>

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The much-celebrated Oudolf Field is a planting installation at Hauser & Wirth Art Gallery<\/a> on the outskirts of Bruton, Somerset. The style of planting here is that of a perennial meadow<\/a>, laid out in 17 curving, interlocking garden beds divided by a broad, gravelled pathway. Originally, the Field really was a field \u2013 a plain, long, uncultivated rectangle sloping up and away from a handsome collection of stone farm buildings. Swiss couple Iwan and Manuela Wirth added a contemporary art gallery and asked Piet Oudolf<\/a> to provide a master plan for the whole site.<\/p>

You may also like:<\/strong><\/p>

Talking Gardens podcast with Piet Oudolf<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>

\"\" — Central beds seem to merge in a single mass of plants: with dark-purple Sedum ‘Matrona’ and the creamy, flat-topped umbels of Selenium wallichianum. At the top of the garden is Smiljan Radi\u0107’s squat fibreglass pavilion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Although many see the installation as a garden, calling it a field is uncompromisingly faithful to its setting; the field stretches out like a huge, flat canvas that Piet<\/a> has painted in great swoops of perennial plants, with no intervening trees or shrubs. In spring there are camassias<\/a> and alliums<\/a>, but the planting is designed to reach a thundering crescendo in summer, with rudbeckias and echinaceas, heleniums and sedums, actaeas and veronicastrums. Below is a list of the key plants Piet Oudolf has used in the design.<\/p>
Colour is in the back of my head not on my tongue \u2013 I don’t speak colour. Colour is so short. I look at the form of a flower and how it will last.<\/p>Dutch designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf<\/cite><\/blockquote>
24 key plants from the Oudolf Field<\/h2>
1<\/p>
Helenium<\/i> \u2018Moerheim Beauty\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
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A key plant for the late-summer border, with strongly reflexed petals of a rich reddish-brown.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 95cm-1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 4a-8b<\/p>
2<\/p>
Helenium <\/i>\u2018Loysder Wieck\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
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Its scrolled petals stand out in an arresting combination of pink and pale yellow.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 90cm-1.2m.<\/p>
3<\/p>
Sanguisorba <\/i>\u2018Blackthorn\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Its soft, flowering spikes are most beautiful when backlit, as here.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1m.<\/p>
4<\/p>
Doellingeria umbellata<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Previously known as Aster umbellatus<\/i>, this is tall perennial with delicate white flowers.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.3m. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 3a-8b.<\/p>
5<\/p>
Symphyotrichum novi-belgi<\/i>i \u2018Violetta\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
One of the most brilliant of the autumn-flowering asters.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 4a-8b.<\/p>
6<\/p>
Sanguisorba officinalis <\/i>\u2018Red Buttons\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
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Adds rich claret tones to an autumn border.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 60cm. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 4a-8b.<\/p>
7<\/p>
Molinia caerulea<\/i> subsp. arundinacea <\/i>\u2018Transparent\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
A slender and well-named grass.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.8m. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 5a-8b.<\/p>
8<\/p>
Succisa pratensis<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The rounded pompom flowers of the devil\u2019s bit scabious are a magnet for insects.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 15-60cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 5a-9b.<\/p>
9<\/p>
Anemone <\/i>x hybrida<\/i> \u2018Robustissima\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Lives up to its name, with strong stems of pale flowers, washed with a darker pink.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 80-1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 3a-8b.<\/p>
10<\/p>
Lysimachia ephemerum<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The airy, white flower spikes of willow-leaved loosestrife rise from mounds of greyish foliage.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H6, USDA 6a-8b.<\/p>
11<\/p>
Stipa tenuissima<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The white Mexican feather grass provides a hazy background for the dark, prickly seedhead of Echinacea pallida.<\/i><\/p>
Height<\/strong> 90cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H6, USDA 4a-10b.<\/p>
12<\/p>
Sporobolus heterolepis<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The prairie dropseed, a North American native, has drooping heads that catch the dew.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 45cm. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 3a-9b.<\/p>
13<\/p>
Thalictrum rochebruneanum<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
A tall meadow rue, seen here flowering in front of a cloud of the fine grass Deschampsia cespitosa<\/i> \u2018Goldtau\u2019. <\/i><\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.5m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H6, USDA 4a-10b.<\/p>
14<\/p>
Selinum wallichianum<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
One of the finest umbellifers for mixed planting, growing here with Penstemon digitalis<\/i> \u2018Husker Red\u2019.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 6b-10b.<\/p>
15<\/p>
Agastache <\/i>\u2018Blackadder\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$
Agastache\u00a0\u2018Blackadder\u2019 – \u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/figcaption><\/figure>
The long-lived spikes will attract masses of bees around their blue flowers.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 80cm-1.5m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H4, USDA 5a-9b.<\/p>
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16<\/p>
Hylotelephium <\/i>\u2018Matrona\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Pays its rent twice: once with its fleshy, dark-purple foliage and again with its heads of pink flowers.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 90cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 4a-8b.<\/p>
17<\/p>
Rudbeckia subtomentosa<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
This sweet coneflower is a native of the central and eastern prairies of North America.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 4a-10b.<\/p>
18<\/p>
Anemone hupehensis <\/i>var. japonica <\/i>\u2018Pamina\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
A candy-coloured, double-flowered anemone that packs a real colour punch.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 75cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 5a-8b.<\/p>
19<\/p>
Echinops bannaticus<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The spent seedheads of Allium atropurpureum<\/i> mingle with the spiny balls of the blue globe thistle.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.5m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 3a-10b.<\/p>
20<\/p>
Veronicastrum virginicum <\/i>\u2018Album\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Its white flower spikes look good through late summer and into autumn.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1.2m. Hardiness<\/strong> USDA 4a-9b.<\/p>
21<\/p>
Eurybia<\/i> x herveyi<\/i><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Previously known as Aster macrophyllus<\/i> \u2018Twilight\u2019, this creates a haze of pale mauve in the border.<\/p>
Height 90cm. Hardiness USDA 3a-8a.<\/p>
22<\/p>
Aruncus<\/i> \u2018Horatio\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
The feathery flower spikes of the goat\u2019s beard rise above foliage that turns red in autumn.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 1m. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H7, USDA 4a-7b.<\/p>
23<\/p>
Imperata cylindrica<\/i> \u2018Rubra\u2019<\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
In late summer, the appropriately named Japanese blood grass brings a fiery blast of colour to a border.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 40cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H3, USDA 5a-9b.<\/p>
24<\/p>
Echinacea pallida<\/em><\/h3><\/div>
$\"\"$ <\/figure>
Stripped of their summer colour, the dry petals stream out like mermaids\u2019 hair.<\/p>
Height<\/strong> 90cm. Hardiness<\/strong> RHS H6, USDA 4a-10b.<\/p>
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You can find more information on hardiness ratings here<\/a>. The new book by Rory Dusoir, Planting the Oudolf Gardens<\/em><\/a>, is launched this week.<\/p>
USEFUL INFORMATION<\/h3>
Address<\/strong> Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL.<\/p>
Tel<\/strong> 01749 814060.Website<\/strong> hauserwirthsomerset.com<\/a>Open<\/strong> Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm, March-October; 10am-4pm, November-February. Admission free.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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