We went to hear Piet Oudolf talk at the very impressive Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity and Health recently opened by Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith at Serge Hill, their house and garden in a strange and always unexpected piece of rural Hertfordshire. 

The Apple House is designed by their son, Tom Stuart-Smith – beautifully and thoughtfully ecological:-

Oudolf’s talk was admirably un-self-important, covering the amazing range of his work across the globe – museum gardens, civic gardens, community garden, roof gardens.  No mention of the Highline or Hauser and Wirth in Somerset, but a mass of other projects, all beautifully photographed year-round. 

It’s very remarkable what they’re doing at Serge Hill:-