‘Bout time.
A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically
Nice slideshow, too.
Great plants look good dead.
Or as Oudolf puts it in the article, “Normally, people who garden would have cut this back by now.  The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.â€
I’m not very familiar with Piet Oudorf’s work, but I like his philosphy and his design. I especially like his ideas about studying a plant’s whole life cycle, and not shying away from death. Thanks for pointing this out.
I’ve long been a fan of his. The lesson I take from the slide show is to backup the wildness with structure. Minus the structure, the plantings would be indistinguishable from, e.g., a prairie. With the structural elements, there is a garden.