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The Oudolf Garden Detroit on Belle Isle is a 2.5-acre perennial garden featuring 32,000 “hearty perennials and grasses,” in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. Volunteers raised $4.7 million to install and endow it, overcoming record flooding in 2019 and working through the COVID-19 pandemic. It opened on Aug. 28, more than five years after The Garden Club of Michigan sent a letter to Dutch master garden designer Piet Oudolf, which set the project in motion.

Source: Michigan’s Belle Isle opens 2.5-acre garden by world-renowned designer – mlive.com

Today’s feature conversation with Duncan Campbell, talking about the Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle. It was designed by Piet Oudolf.

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Oudolf Garden Detroit was the brainchild of designer Piet Oudolf, who received a letter from The Garden Club of Michigan asking for help. That became the start of more than five years of hard work by the all-volunteer Oudolf Garden Detroit Grounds Crew.

Source: Oudolf Garden Detroit opens on Belle Isle – Fox 2 Detroit

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

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