There is no denying that massing plants makes an impact. Many of the most compelling gardens (think Piet Oudolf's High Line plantings in New York) feature masses of plants. Massing has played a big role in a couple of influential planting movements ofthe late 20th and early 21 st centuries. The New American Garden style of Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, and the New Perennial Movement, championed by Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury, and others, immediately jump to mind. We know their names, and some of us can conjure up an idea of what their planting styles may look like. But more often when gardeners think of massing, they call to mind big commercial properties.
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