Essay on gardening

Henk Gerritsen - Essay on Gardening foreword - Piet Oudolf Gerritsen started designing the Dutch Priona gardens in 1978 which are open to the public. From 1995 on he designed a wild flowers garden at Waltham Place, near London. Henk Gerritsen is internationally wellknown as the writer of the first Piet Oudolf books, translated in many languages and as designer of gardens in several countries. Playing chess with nature however is not a game between well-matched opponents. Nature is much more powerful than man. Thinking ahead is not sufficient; nature is an unpredictable opponent, who may come forward with moves that no man could have foreseen. Nederlandse versie: Henk Gerritsen - Buiten is het groen ISBN 9789076863511