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However cold outside, gardening is a hot topic in Detroit and likely to get even hotter.

As the Garden Club of Michigan and Detroit Institute of Arts’ Friends of Detroit Film Theatre are co-hosting a special screening of “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” at 7 p.m. Jan. 4. The film will be followed by a conversation with Oudolf about the garden he’s planning to create on Belle Isle.

“We’re very excited,” said Duncan Campbell, a spokesperson for the club and husband to its past president Maura Campbell. “This is going to raise awareness for the project and it’s going to give people a chance to understand and see Oudolf’s work.”

via The Macomb Daily

Film on acclaimed garden designer Piet Oudolf at the DIA

via Detroit News

The main draw for garden visitors is Oudolf Field, a slope of 1.5 acres enclosed on three sides by traditional hedging. It’s a former field that is now a garden, conceived by international star Piet Oudolf. With the Dutch designer’s trademark perennials that have beauty at every stage, we wonder how they are doing in deepest winter?

via Gardenista

More exciting news is in the near future Belle Isle will feature a spectacular display of modern landscaping created by the internationally renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf.

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Internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf has agreed to design a garden for Belle Isle and is open to additional commissions in Detroit.

The island garden will be planted on a 1.5-acre, grassy site near the Nancy Brown Peace Memorial Carillon and the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, a site chosen by Oudolf himself during a visit to Detroit earlier this year.

via Crain’s Detroit

The Garden Club of Michigan and the Detroit Institute of Arts auxiliary Friends of Detroit Film Theatre (FDFT) would like Detroiters to know more about Oudolf. They will co-host a program Jan. 4 at 7:00 p.m. that includes the documentary “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf” and a conversation with Oudolf and filmmaker Thomas Piper.Oudolf and Piper will discuss the film and the Belle Isle garden site with audience members at the screening.

Via thehubdetroit.com

The Garden Club of Michigan and Friends of Detroit Film Theatre cohost a special screening of Five Seasons, a new documentary about the internationally renowned Dutch master garden designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf.

Piet Oudolf`s projects include No. 5 Culture Chanel, Paris, France; The High Line, New York NY; Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago IL; Serpentine Gallery, London, England, and the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

At the invitation of the Garden Club of Michigan, Oudolf has committed to design a garden in Detroit and proposed a site on Belle Isle. Piet Oudolf and filmmaker Thomas Piper will be present at the screening to discuss the Belle Isle proposal with audience members.

via Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT (AP) — Open houses are planned this month on a proposed garden for Detroit’s Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Garden Club of Michigan are hosting public meetings Tuesday and Nov. 28.

Oudolf’s work is seen at Lurie Garden in Chicago and the Highline in New York City, among many other gardens worldwide.

via US News

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Garden Club of Michigan will host two public meetings November 14 and November 28 to gather public input on a proposed garden in Detroit’s Belle Isle Park. The garden will be designed by internationally renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf.

via Michigan Gardener

Over near the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon, a new garden is in the works by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. He’s most famously known here for the Lurie Garden in Chicago and the Highline in New York City. After touring Detroit with the Garden Club of Michigan last spring, he decided on Belle Isle for a new garden for Detroit.

via Curbed Detroit