Wolfgang Oehme

Wolfgang Oehme (May 18, 1930 Chemnitz, Germany – December 15, 2011, Towson, Maryland) was a German-American landscape architect.

After graduation, Oehme worked in the nursery of Waterer Sons & Crisp in Bagshot and then got a job with the city parks department in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Oehme, a great admirer of the works of Karl May[2] emigrated in 1957 on the recommendation of Hubert Owens from Nuremberg to the United States.

[3] In 1966, Oehme joined the Rouse Company in Maryland and designed gardens with ornamental grasses and perennials, but without lawns.

He also smuggled, hidden in a hollowed-out book, seeds in the United States, since the selection of ornamental plants there was initially very limited.

He relates how Oehme visited a garden designed by him and saw that impatiens had been planted by the owner, which displeased the architect.