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DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A proposed garden for Detroit’s Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf is starting to take shape.

Construction is set to begin Tuesday on a 2.5-acre garden that’s expected to open in fall 2020 in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. Organizers say 18,000 plants being grown for the site have been ordered for a planned installation in September. Most of the plants have been ordered from Michigan growers.

via Garden By Piet Oudolf Takes Shape On Detroit’s Belle Isle | WWJ Newsradio 950

DETROIT (FOX 2) – Belle Isle is getting a new attraction on the island, thanks to a world-renowned designer.

Ground breaks for a new 2.5-acre garden Tuesday, created by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf. Oudolf’s work can be seen at Lurie Garden in Chicago and the Highline in New York City, among many other gardens worldwide.

“Think like an Impressionist painter,” Duncan Campbell with volunteer group Oudolf Garden Detroit explains. “[Oudolf] clumps perennials together to create a surrounding garden in a sculptural sense. And you’ll be able to walk through … and we’re going to have granite walkways through it, crushed granite, and then grass, tall plants. It’s going to be absolutely lovely.”

via New Belle Isle garden by world-renowned designer Piet Oudolf breaks ground – Story | WJBK

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Visitors will now have one more reason to visit Belle Isle.

Construction of a new, ground-breaking garden begins today – 18,000 plants will go into the ground as world-renowned Dutch designer Piet Oudolf brings this masterpiece to life.

via 18,000 plants going into the ground for Belle Isle’s new garden

DETROIT (AP) — A proposed garden for Detroit’s Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf is starting to take shape.

Construction is set to begin Tuesday on a 2.5-acre (1-hectare) garden that’s expected to open in fall 2020. Organizers say 18,000 plants being grown for the site have been ordered for a planned installation in September.

via Garden by Piet Oudolf to Take Shape on Detroit’s Belle Isle | Michigan News | US News

DETROIT (AP) — A proposed garden for Detroit’s Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf is starting to take shape.

Construction is set to begin Tuesday on a 2.5-acre (1-hectare) garden that’s expected to open in fall 2020. Organizers say 18,000 plants being grown for the site have been ordered for a planned installation in September.

via Garden by Piet Oudolf to take shape on Detroit’s Belle Isle

Oudolf Garden Detroit (OGD) has received a $1 million grant from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation for the Oudolf public garden on Belle Isle, which is scheduled to begin construction this summer.

The grant puts the project within about $350,000 of the OGD’s $4 million overall funding goal, depending on final construction costs. It supports an endowment with the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and goes to maintain the garden in the future.

via Piet Oudolf public garden on Belle Isle receives $1 million grant from Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation – The Hub Detroit

With a $1 million grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, Oudolf Garden Detroit is nearing completion of its fundraising campaign to support a garden designed by renowned Dutch designer Piet Oudolf on Belle Isle.

The new grant from the Wilson foundation will support an endowment held by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan for the perpetual maintenance of the garden, which has been in the works since 2016 and moved forward in late 2017.

via Belle Isle Oudolf garden campaign nears completion with $1 million grant

NEW YORK — The setting was more than fitting — albeit a coincidence. In a tony restaurant overlooking The Vessel, the people-magnet landmark of the spiffy new Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s west side, Jean Hudson was talking gardens.

Surrounded by her children — daughter Jeannie and son Webber — grandchildren, nieces and nephews and dozens of ex-Detroiters (former Detroit Institute of Arts director Sam Sachs was in the room), she described last week how a dedicated volunteer group had lured one of the world’s best-known garden designers to take on a commission in Detroit.

via How the seeds were planted for Oudolf’s Belle Isle garden