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.
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Over on Belle Isle today, boosters broke ground on the Piet Oudolf garden, the unofficial name for the landscape installation planned for 2.5 acres at the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon.
Oudolf is a legendary Dutch garden designer and author who’s perhaps best known for his work on New York City’s High Line, a linear park on a former elevated rail track, and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park. You can watch a PBS NewsHour segment with him below; in it, he talks specifically about the project in Detroit and the city itself.
On today’s episode, we speak with two members of the volunteer organization Oudolf Garden Detroit — Maura and Duncan Campbell. They tell us all about how Oudolf was persuaded to do a commission in Detroit, what’s involved and how backers hope it might lead to some transformational changes to Belle Isle — and the city as a whole.
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A highly anticipated garden on Belle Isle drawn up by world renowned Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf is beginning to take root as crews and volunteers on Tuesday broke ground, laying the groundwork for the first plantings which will go into the dirt in mid-September.
Holding shovels while banners that read “Oudolf” flapped nearby, a group of more than a dozen supporters and crew members stood in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon on Tuesday as the sun shone down on where Oudolf Garden Detroit will be installed. Over the next three months, construction crews will improve the site’s drainage, bolster the soil and install garden beds and gravel paths.
Construction is set to begin Tuesday on the 2.5-acre 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.
Most of the plants have been ordered from Michigan growers.
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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
DETROIT — 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 | WWMT