Ever the renegade, “we try to garden with no...

Observations on plants and gardening from the Great Basin steppe in the American West.

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“Ever the renegade, “we try to garden with no dogmas,” Oudolf said in a lecture at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe a few days after his working trip to the Lurie. “We don’t cut back when the book says to cut back. We cut back when we think so, and when we think it looks good. Every plant in our gardens is allowed as long as it looks good and behaves. We leave plants just till the moment we don’t like them anymore. That way, a garden becomes a whole new story.”

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