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World-renowned plantsman Piet Oudolf was granted the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) at the annual SGD Awards Ceremony last week.

via The English Garden

Maura Campbell has a term for what will happen to an acre and a half swath of empty green space in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon on Detroit’s Belle Isle over the next two years. And it isn’t as simple as planting a garden. It’s more than that….

via The Detroit News

A new wave of cash flooded into the Detroit’s arts and culture scene after the latest round of Knight Arts Challenge winners was announced Wednesday night at the Fillmore Detroit.

via Detroit Free Press

Piet Oudolf is a garden designer. His projects include The High Line in New York City, Lurie Gardenin Chicago, Toronto Botanical Gardens, and soon Belle Isle in Detroit. He launched his career with the establishment of his own garden at Hummelo in the Netherlands, where he still lives—and from where we spoke to him over telephone.

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