Good morning! This week in the Saturday Extra: Michigan kids head back to school amid a COVID-19 surge; the Oudolf Garden opens on Belle Isle; the Fisher Building is for sale.
Source: Crain’s Detroit Business
Dialing into a press call from the Netherlands on Friday, Oudolf, who was not able to travel to Detroit for the opening due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, said he was drawn to the site for its somewhat central location on Belle Isle (he did not want the garden to be “lost” in the sprawling 1.5-square-mile park) that already draws crowds to the conservatory and the Belle Isle Aquarium. “I thought: This is the center of horticulture, and aquaculture, and music,” Oudolf said. “We should do the garden here.”
Source: A short history of Piet Oudolf’s new garden in Detroit | Crain’s Detroit Business
Oudolf Garden Detroit, a new public garden designed by world-renowned designer Piet Oudolf, officially opened to the public over the weekend.
Source: Piet Oudolf-designed garden officially opens on Belle Isle – WXYZ
A new garden designed by a renowned Dutch landscape designer is opening on Belle Isle this weekend. The $4.7 million project spans 2.5 acres and features more than 160 varieties of plants, grasses, shrubs and trees. It’s named Oudolf Garden Detroit after the man who designed it, Piet Oudolf.
Source: $4.7 Million Oudolf Garden Detroit Opens on Belle Isle | WDET
Internationally renowned Dutch designer Piet Oudolf has graced Detroit with a masterpiece of nature. This Saturday, Oudolf Garden Detroit (OGD), an outdoor garden on Belle Isle, opens to the public. Spanning across 2.5 acres, the garden holds 32,000 perennials and grasses, an OGD release said, 90% of which are from Michigan growers.
Source: Piet Oudolf’s public garden on Belle Isle opens Saturday | Detroit Free Press
Located in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon, the garden is made up of Oudolf’s three perennial plant styles:block, matrix, and group planting. Ninety percent of the plants in the garden come from Michigan growers, and the Virgin Purple Cornflower, Sea Lavender, Nekan Blue Sage, Winged Loosestrife, and American Feverfew are among those now in bloom.
Source: Oudolf Garden Detroit to Officially Open this Weekend – Hour Detroit
Several years ago, Grosse Pointe Farms resident Maura Campbell, then-president of the Garden Club of Michigan, tasked members to come up with a dream project — something significant and long-lasting.
The much-anticipated Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle will be officially opened Saturday. Designed by the world-famous Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, a leading figure of the “New Perennial” movement, the beds were planted last fall and through this summer, but have been fenced off as the plants get established.
The beautification of Detroit’s Belle Isle park continues with the public opening of a 2.5-acre (1-hectare) perennial garden designed by Dutch horticulturist Piet Oudolf.A ribbon-cutting is scheduled Aug. 28 for Oudolf Garden Detroit outside the island’s carillon.
Source: Oudolf-designed garden growing on Detroit’s Belle Isle – AP
The Oudolf Garden Detroit on Belle Isle was a five-year passion project for Dutch perennial garden designer Piet Oudolf and volunteers from Detroit. It officially opens to the public on Aug. 28.
Source: Public garden by Piet Oudolf to open on Detroit’s Belle Isle – The Oakland Press