![]() ![]() Had COVID not happened, he would have visited the garden site on Belle Isle - an island in the Detroit River connected to Detroit by bridge - during soil preparation and plantings, said Meredith Simpson, the volunteer COO of Friends of the Oudolf Garden, the nonprofit conservancy caring for it. This building will be surrounded by a magnificent garden designed by renowned Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, creator of the High Line gardens in New. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oudolf, a Dutch designer who has been likened by some to the late famed Belle Isle and Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, also designed the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park in Chicago as well as several gardens at Battery Park and High Line park in Manhattan. 6 The Walled Garden at Scampston Hall In a cold area of the country, the planting at Scampston by new perennials master Piet Oudolf is lean and mean, well-suited to the local thin, sandy soil. High Line, New York City Battery Park, New York City Lurie Gardens, Millennium Park, Chicago Vlinderhof, Utrecht Westerkade, Rotterdam Hauser & Wirth. Last year, rain garden plants were added before the free, public garden opened in August 2021. The Oudolf Garden Detroit, a 2.6-acre site near the Nancy Brown Peace Memorial Carillon and the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle, sprang to life two years ago with nearly 26,000 plants tucked into the soil. Famed landscape designer Piet Oudolf is coming to Detroit next month to see the Belle Isle garden he designed in person for the first time. ![]()
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