Landscape designer Piet Oudolf on finding solace in the garden

Jeffrey Brown:

The world has looked strange these past months, familiar places no longer familiar at all.

Last year, we visited Amsterdam's world-famous Rijksmuseum, normally a busy crossroads, now a few bikes forced to keep their distance. One of the park-like spaces Piet Oudolf designed, Chicago's Lurie Garden, remains closed. The plants still need tending, the spring bulbs prepared for next year's bloom.

Many people have turned to their own or community gardens during this period, growing vegetables and flowers, nourishing body and soul. Gardening centers have been among the first essential businesses to reopen. Sales of seeds have soared.

Piet Oudolf isn't surprised.

Landscape designer Piet Oudolf on finding solace in the garden