Roy Diblik: Champion of natives and influential plantsman

chicagotribune.com – (via Garden Writers Today)

• …project by project, plant by plant, Diblik, 57, has become one of the most original, sophisticated and influential plantsmen in the Midwest.

   

• If you have visited the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (luriegarden.org), you’ve seen plants he grew from seed. If you have been to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer and strolled by the Louis Sullivan Stock Exchange Arch, you’ve seen how he puts plants together. If you’ve gambled at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, you’ve seen a site where he combines native plants in a stylized way.

   

• If you have visited his Northwind Perennial Farm (northwindperennialfarm.com) in Burlington, Wis., near Lake Geneva, you have seen a display garden where perennials artfully intermingle, playing against rich stonework, sparked by lively sculpture.