Career
He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are chosen at least as much for their structure as for their flower colour. Vlinderhof (Leidsche Rijn, Netherlands, 2014),
Hauser and Wirth (Bruton Somerset, England, 2013),
High Lincolnshire (New York City, 2006),
Battery Park (New York City, 2003),
the Lurie Garden, a gigantic green roof over the car park of Millennium Park (Chicago, 2003 - with Kathryn Gustafson)
Scampston Hall (England, 2002-2003). Algemene Bank Nederland Amro Bank (Netherlands, 2000),
Hoogeland (Netherlands, 2001),
Millennium Garden at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve
Country Cork Garden, Republic of Ireland
Parts of Kurpark Bad Driburg, Germany
Municipal park of Enköping, Sweden
He is the designer of the interior garden of the 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, in collaboration with the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.
His own garden, at Hummelo, near Arnhem in the Netherlands has been created since 1982.
lieutenant has gone through many changes which reflect Oudolf"s constantly developing planting design. Initially it was designed with a series of yew (Taxus baccata) hedges and blocks, reflecting Oudolf"s architectural style which owed much to Mien Ruys, the designer who dominated Dutch garden design in the post-war period.