Rock star garden designer Piet Oudolf planning Belle Isle creation – Windsor Star

DETROIT, ONT:. JAN. 4, 2018 — Piet Oudolf, a world renowned garden designer, is pictured at the site of his next project on Belle Isle in Detroit MI., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. (DAX MELMER/Windsor Star)

The world-renowned Dutch designer known in America for High Line park on an elevated rail corridor in New York City and the urban Chicago oasis of Lurie Garden is starting to conceive one of his dynamic gardens in a spot he chose beneath the Carillon tower on Belle Isle.

The Garden Club of Michigan — which invited him in a “why not Detroit” and a “why not Oudolf” moment — is beyond excited about the garden which will require more than $2.7 million in fundraising.

via the Windsor Star