Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's an update on the planning and progress of the Sears Sunken Garden in North Lawndale in Chicago...it's an exciting project that I'm proud to be a part of. The community recently gathered to watch Piet Ouldof's movie, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (2017), which is a documentary directed by Thomas Piper following gardens designed by Piet Oudolf through five seasons. If you'd like to donate to help bring this garden to life, visit: searssunkengarden.org/donate
About:
The Friends of Sears Sunken Garden is working with Piet Oudolf, Roy Diblik and community members to restore North Lawndale’s historic landmark garden.
The Friends of Sears Sunken Garden (FSSG) was established as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 2021. FSSG is dedicated to the restoration of the historic Sears Sunken Garden located on the former campus of Sears, Roebuck & Co. The Sears headquarters was completed in 1907 on the west side of Chicago in what is now known as the community of North Lawndale.
The design team selected for the restoration includes world-renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf, and plantsman and designer Roy Diblik. Oudolf is well known as the planting designer for the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park and the High Line in New York City. Chris Gent joins the team as landscape architect, having worked with the Chicago Park District, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and other City of Chicago agencies. And Odile Compagnon, architect and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a key member of the Sears Sunken Garden design team. She has a private practice focused on sustainable and participatory design.
The restoration of the Sears Sunken Garden will not only serve as a beautiful amenity for Chicago residents and visitors alike, but signals to the world that North Lawndale is a place of beauty, energy and possibility.
Working together with feedback from the community, Piet, Roy, Chris and Odile will make the vision and immersive planting designs become a reality with the many historic elements of the garden. We feel honored to work with this team because they are committed to creating gardens that fit the way people live, work and play today. Beautiful gardens that in turn contribute to a more sustainable and economically thriving place to be.
Like, subscribe, and share! Leave comments and questions and Roy will do his best to reply! Closed Caption is now available! Activate with the CC button on the bottom right of the video window.
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✍ For a design consultation contact Roy at roydiblik@gmail.com
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Here's an update on the planning and progress of the Sears Sunken Garden in North Lawndale in Chicago...it's an exciting project that I'm proud to be a part of. The community recently gathered to watch Piet Ouldof's movie, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (2017), which is a documentary directed by Thomas Piper following gardens designed by Piet Oudolf through five seasons. If you'd like to donate to help bring this garden to life, visit: searssunkengarden.org/donate
About:
The Friends of Sears Sunken Garden is working with Piet Oudolf, Roy Diblik and community members to restore North Lawndale’s historic landmark garden.
The Friends of Sears Sunken Garden (FSSG) was established as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 2021. FSSG is dedicated to the restoration of the historic Sears Sunken Garden located on the former campus of Sears, Roebuck & Co. The Sears headquarters was completed in 1907 on the west side of Chicago in what is now known as the community of North Lawndale.
The design team selected for the restoration includes world-renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf, and plantsman and designer Roy Diblik. Oudolf is well known as the planting designer for the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park and the High Line in New York City. Chris Gent joins the team as landscape architect, having worked with the Chicago Park District, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and other City of Chicago agencies. And Odile Compagnon, architect and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a key member of the Sears Sunken Garden design team. She has a private practice focused on sustainable and participatory design.
The restoration of the Sears Sunken Garden will not only serve as a beautiful amenity for Chicago residents and visitors alike, but signals to the world that North Lawndale is a place of beauty, energy and possibility.
Working together with feedback from the community, Piet, Roy, Chris and Odile will make the vision and immersive planting designs become a reality with the many historic elements of the garden. We feel honored to work with this team because they are committed to creating gardens that fit the way people live, work and play today. Beautiful gardens that in turn contribute to a more sustainable and economically thriving place to be.
Like, subscribe, and share! Leave comments and questions and Roy will do his best to reply! Closed Caption is now available! Activate with the CC button on the bottom right of the video window.
👉 Recommended reading 🤓
📗 Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements amzn.to/3YJVQze
📗 Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community amzn.to/3OO5Brw
📗 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability amzn.to/3OJSasD
📗 Piet Oudolf At Work amzn.to/3TL1Ntd
📗 Wild flowers and how to grow them by Edwin Francis Steffek amzn.to/42GAc0k
📗 Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges: An Introduction to the Genus Carex
amzn.to/3FBA5cD
📗 Gardening with Grasses, Michael King & Pite Oudolf amzn.to/3TtQ5Dd
📗 The Gardener's Essential by Gertrude Jekyll amzn.to/3XbHBAV
📗 The Well-Tempered Garden by C. Lloyd amzn.to/3Yp30aQ
📗 Flora of the Chicago Region amzn.to/3kZcOKf
📗 The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry amzn.to/3IuiB0J
📗 Gardening With Perennials Month By Month amzn.to/3k9NCy1
📗 Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening With Nature amzn.to/3lcbsba
📗 In Praise Of Shadows amzn.to/3ljBvgq
📘 The Hidden Half Of Nature amzn.to/3dkmYzn
📕 Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/37mGvM7
📗 Planting Designs by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/3oTYKOF
📘 Planting The Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen: amzn.to/2IRvglg
📙 Seedheads In The Garden by Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/37ji6H7
📙 Know Maintenance by Roy Diblik: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
📕 A Small Porch by Wendell Berry: amzn.to/3gPLO9T
📘 Jewels of the Plains by Claude A. Barr: amzn.to/3J0yFsM
📕 The Art of Planting or the Planter's Handbook by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/3B9l3t8
📘 Hardy Perennials by Alan Bloom: amzn.to/3aRh6hY
(Some of these links may be 'affiliate' links. You'll pay the same price but I may make a small commission if you purchase through these links. This will help support my channel and keep the content coming! Thank you!!)
🎥 Produced by Geneva Lake Creative genevalakecreative.com
✍ For a design consultation contact Roy at roydiblik@gmail.com
📕 Buy Roy's book here: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
👉 Buy the Spear Head Spade here: amzn.to/3b7ygWt
#roydiblik #northwindperennialfarm
