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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