Five Seasons
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"Five Seasons" is a documentary portrait of landscape designer Piet Oudolf and his revolutionary approach to garden design, planting design, and horticulture. The film explores how Oudolf uses perennials, grasses, seed heads, texture, color, and seasonality to create naturalistic landscapes inspired by prairies and plant communities. It highlights key concepts such as biodiversity, ecology, plant structure, native and non-native species, public garden design, and the life cycle of growth, decay, and renewal across the seasons. Featured projects include the High Line, Lurie Garden, and Durslade, showing how observation, experimentation, sketching, scale, and mathematical planning shape living landscapes. This content supports curriculum connections in botany, environmental science, ecology, the arts, and design thinking.
Media Details
Runtime: 75 minutes, 6 seconds
- Topic: History, Home and Family, Science
- Subtopic: Botany, Documentaries, Ecology, Gardening, Plants
- Grade/Interest Level: 2 - 4
- Release Year: 2025
- Producer/Distributor: Good Docs
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