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The Enduring Appeal of Oehme, van Sweden’s “New American Garden”

ASLA's The Dirt

The default American landscape before game-changing landscape architecture firm Oehme van Sweden & Associates (OvS) came along was the great expanse of lawns, really an ecological wasteland, with perhaps a fringe of flowers. But all of that changed with James van Sweden and Wolgang Oehme’s New American Garden style, which burst onto the scene in the early 1960s.