Discover 12 amazing Naturalistic Gardens / Prairie style gardens, including 4 created by Piet Oudolf.
The American Museum - Bath
These contemporay gardens were re-created by US garden designers Oehme, van Sweden (OvS) in 2018. They have all year interest culminating in autumn, where the prairie-style planting has beautiful colour and textures.
Beth Chatto Garden - Essex
This beautiful garden was created by the late Beth Chatto in the 1960s, formed from overgrown farmland. It is now a must visit garden.
Cambo Walled Garden - Fife
This unique Walled Garden with a stream running through it is planted in a naturalstic styleinspired by Piet Oudolf, and are attracts a wide range of wildlife.
Dyffyrn Fernant - Pembrokeshire
An isolated garden in on the edge of the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire. Naturalistic in its planting as well as exotic and stylised in parts.
Hauser and Wirth - Somerset
The Oudolf Field, by Piet Oudolf is a masterpiece of naturalstic design, both colourful and artistic. A must visit garden for lovers of Prairie Gardens.
Pensthorpe - Norfolk
One of the first Piet Oudolf's gardens in Britain in a wonderful lakeside setting, with prairie plantings which come alive in late July.
Tremenhere Sculpture Garden - Cornwall
An amazing naturalstic garden created in the late 1990s from overgrown scrubby woodland. A masterpiece of work with plants, art and nature working in harmony!
RHS Wisley - Surrey
A new Piet Oudolf garden opened in 2024 with weaving pathways through grids of naturalstic plantings. A welcome addition to this place.
Scampston Walled Garden- Yorkshire
Another Piet Oudolf garden within a 4.5 acre Walled Garden. A stunningly beautiful, contemporary garden with areas of naturalstic plantings.
Sussex Prairies - Sussex
Created from fields in 2008 this naturalistic prairie garden of eight acres consists of a series of interlocking arcs of large planted borders in a naturalistic style - a real feast for the eyes. 
Wildside - Devon
One man's vision of harmonising nature and gardens, and then creating it with his late wife. A masterpiece of effort, willpower and artistic vision.
Yeo Valley Organic Garden - Somerset
Includes the naturalistic Gravel Garden, a bees' paradise of the thyme bank to beautiful herbaceous planting, it is a true tapestry of colour.
ABOUT NATURALISTIC and PRAIRIE GARDENS, and THE NEW PERRENIAL MOVEMENT
William Robinson (1838 to 1895) is considered the father of the Naturalistic style of garden and many designers followed this style. A number of designers continued to develop this concept in Holland and elswhere (New perennial Movement) but it was not until the 1990s that this was taken to a new level by Piet Ouldolf and others. With a contemporary feel these gardens are planted in swathes and combinations of colourful perrenials and grasses in harmony with nature and wildlife.
Further reading at :
https://www.homesandgardens.com/gardens/what-is-the-new-perennial-movement
