Learn the latest world class planting design techniques, from internationally famous planting design genius Piet Oudolf

01 February 2022

Get your planting designs critiqued online by the best in the world!

Social Online Learning company, Learning with Experts, has launched a new online course by internationally famous Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. The garden design course is based on the Vlinderhof Garden design and planting plan. Vlinderhof is generally considered to be one of the most beautiful community gardens in the world. Vlinderhof (which means Butterfly Garden in Dutch) is designed in the New Perennial style (of Dutch Wave). Clouds of Perennials are combined with grasses and there is this almost natural play of heights, textures and colours, giving the extraordinary painterly feel of impressionist art. It’s one of the greatest examples of Piet’s planting techniques, that gardeners and designers the world over, still continue to try an emulate. The course includes exclusive access to Piet Oudolf’s design principles and plans, and offers personal feedback on students’ designs from his expert horticultural collaborator Dr Noel Kingsbury.

The new course forms part of a Piet Oudolf Gardens collection of three courses which includes courses on Piet’s family garden at Hummelo and his perennial planting on the New York High Line. Unusually, students will also have exclusive and rare access to Piet’s Vlinderhof Garden plan and much sought after planting list as part of the course materials.

We’re delighted to be able to give gardening enthusiasts and professionals, such rare access to Piet and Noel’s teaching and garden design knowledge from three very different gardens around the world. Piet is usually based in Holland and the US, and Noel in Portugal and the UK. Our online classrooms give you access to these nomadic gardening masters wherever you are in the world. Unlike most online learning, Learning with Experts combines broadcast quality videos (including birds eye view footage of planting designs), with an interactive learning experience and real feedback on your own designs from your experts. We’re really looking forward to seeing students using Piet’s planting plans and creating Oudolf-inspired designs for their own gardens. We expect this to appeal to the design community as well as amateur gardening enthusiasts”

Elspeth Briscoe CEO of Learning with Experts

I really believe in experimenting, but from an informed place; you need to understand plants, and planting first. Landscape design is a learning process; often it takes a lifetime of learning. People should study, and then they have to find out for themselves, but plants can touch you very deeply and it’s simply lovely to be inspired to find your own style.

Piet Oudolf - course tutor

People can use this course to make their Piet Oudolf garden design dreams come true. This is a truly unique opportunity

Marc Kikkert - founder of Vlinderhof Garden

I hope my teachings with Piet and Learning with Experts will inspire people to think differently about landscaping. I think that education is so important, and the Learning with Experts’ site enables people all over the world to have access to Piet and his philosophies in way that no other online learning does.

Dr Noel Kingsbury - course tutor

Learning with Experts provides the chance to learn at the hands of experts within their field, without having to leave the house. Intimately sized classes of 20 are ensure that learners receive individual attention and support, as well as offering a community focus, so that peers interact share creations with each other. The course completion rate at Learning with Experts is over 80%, compared to an average completion rate of online courses of just 20%.

Piet Oudolf Vlinderhof Garden class is now open at https://www.learningwithexperts.com/gardening/courses/piet-oudolf-vlinderhof-garden

Piet Oudolf Vlinderhof Garden course

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About Piet Oudolf

Influential Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf is considered by many to be one of the most innovative plantsmen of the modern era. His highly structured yet naturalistic style is constantly evolving as can be seen in his many projects that include Lurie Garden Chicago, the garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the New York High Line and volunteer-run Vlinderhof Garden.

About Learning with Experts:

Learning with Experts is a unique, online, community education platform. It brings together the “experts’ experts” with the best in their field showcasing, interacting and leading intimate classrooms to success in fields covering Food & Drink, Gardening, Wellbeing, Photography and Art.

With its wealth of tutors and exclusive offering, unlike anything available in the online learning space, Learning with Experts can give consumers access to top names such as writer, chef and food activist, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Master Chocolatier, Paul A Young; along with fully accredited courses such as RHS Level 2 and their full Garden Design Diploma.

Piet Oudolf Gardens collection of 3 courses: Peer: £75 / £335:

https://www.learningwithexperts.com/gardening/courses/piet-oudolf-gardens

Piet Oudolf Vlinderhof Garden course: Peer £25 / Expert £85:

https://www.learningwithexperts.com/gardening/courses/piet-oudolf-vlinderhof-garden

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