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.

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 sheer scale of the place is difficult to grapple with. The kitchen garden alone at Scampston Hall, in Yorkshire, in the north of England, contains four

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.

Gardener and designer Tim Pilgrim has transformed a once flat block of land into a magical garden that blooms and evolves with the seasons.

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

Identifying the key elements to create a garden in typical modern Dutch garden style.

Tuinfleur gardens, Netherlands, where plant collector Rika van Delden replaces thousands of bulbs every year and experiments with new varieties, ensuring all areas of the garden are full of interest

Landscape ideas from the Netherlands are shaping modern garden design, from Piet Oudolf's perennials to velvety hedges. Steal 10 ideas from Dutch gardens.

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