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The Garden Cruise

Join us for the 14th garden cruise.

Detroit Garden Works is proud to present The Garden Cruise, a tour of gardens designed, planted and/or inspired by Deborah Silver. The landscapes vary in style and approach, but all reflect an ownership for whom the beauty of a garden is an important part of life.

Our most serious mission as a business is to foster the idea of environmental stewardship—a mission The Greening of Detroit has embraced since its inception. Come enjoy the day with us and support an organization that plants, teaches, and leads the effort towards a greener Detroit. Since 2008, The Garden Cruise has raised over $200,000 in support of this mission.

Time Sunday, July 28, 2024 9am-4:30pm - rain or shine

Tickets Tour only: $40/person Tour & Cocktail Reception: $55/person

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Oudolf Garden Detroit

Jean wright hudson peace meadows and the erb family foundation funded boardwalk.

Sponsor a Plant in the Meadow

One hundred and twenty (120) volunteers and supporters gathered on Monday October 28, 2024 to officially open the Erb Family Foundation funded boardwalk to promote education in the Garden. We also named the Meadows after Jean Wright Hudson. Jean was one of the signers of the “Love Letter from Detroit” that was sent to Piet Oudolf in 2016 and she has been integral member of the Grounds Crew from its very inception. She has been an inspirational role model of volunteerism for all of us.

The Jean Wright Hudson Peace Meadows, now fully planted, is a curated native meadow designed by Piet Oudolf. The June planting was funded by our donors to our Sponsor-a-Plant program. The July planting was sponsored by the Keep Michigan Beautiful Foundation, and the September planting was sponsored by North Oakland Wild Ones.

You can still help this project by sponsoring the plants that were planted this year….. Learn More

Inspired by the energy of Detroit after receiving a “love letter from Detroit” from The Garden Club of Michigan (GCM), Piet Oudolf designed this naturalistic public garden on Belle Isle.

Both artistic and ecological by design, he chose perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees for their hardiness, durability, and ever-changing textures and colors for enjoyment in all four seasons. Oudolf Garden Detroit differs from other public Oudolf gardens in that it is run by its all-volunteer Oudolf Garden Detroit Grounds Crew.

The 3 acre garden sits in front of and around the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon  on Belle Isle , a Michigan state park situated in the picturesque Detroit River. The Garden is divided into four district areas; the Main Garden, the Rain Garden, Piet’s Bird Border and the Meadows.

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Weddings are not permitted in the Garden.

“For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes — nature, or the longing for nature.” Piet Oudolf

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Faux Bois Cast Stone Bench

The Hoff Pot

The Rusted Flower Stakes

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Explore containers of all kinds, from classic to contemporary..

The Beauty of Form & Function

Outdoor Living

A sampling of our tool collection, from home and abroad.

Vintage Belgian Steel Tower

The garden cruise july 23, 2023.

Detroit Garden Works hosted its first Garden Cruise to benefit the Greening of Detroit since 2019. I feel an intense satisfaction in being able to write that sentence....

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WELCOME TO THE HISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGE

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

SCHEDULE A VISIT TO INDIAN VILLAGE!

Bring kids out to celebrate Halloween! This year, we will be outside in our Centennial Garden, enjoying a fall day.

Saturday October 26, 2024 1pm-4pm

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On June 20, 1971, Indian Village became only the second historic district in the city of Detroit , a designation that has protected the more than 350 homes located on Burns, Iroquois and Seminole Streets between Jefferson and Mack Avenues ever since.

As a historic district, nearly all exterior changes to our homes must be approved by Detroit’s Historic District Commission— a safeguard that has protected the historic character of our neighborhood for a half-century.

As a garden club for both men and women, the Club has about 70 members. Most of its members live in Indian Village and West Village, but the group has members elsewhere in the Detroit Metropolitan areas as well. It started out as a garden and social club, and it still is, with members forming long-term friendships with one another. The group also actively works to improve the city-scape of the Indian Village and West Village neighborhoods.

Are you a member of the Men's Garden Club? Please contact Mark Reynolds >> HERE << to get access to the special group chat. 

In 1953, a key group of women decided to form a garden club; members could learn garden skills from professional presentations at meetings and from each other. Soon social activities and projects to beautify the neighborhood began to appear on the club calendar. Deep friendships developed. The club continues as an important part of Indian Village, now listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Are you a member? Contact Renata Miller >> HERE << to get access to the group chat. 

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The Historic Indian Village is one of the most significant neighborhoods in present-day Detroit.