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.
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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
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.
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
