Hanna Wendelbo

The garden is my place for rest, healing and wonder, a green space to return to when the outside world feels fragile and difficult to grasp.

Here, time slows down and makes room for what actually matters. People and animals share the garden with bees, butterflies and other pollinators in a living whole where everyone has their role.

I cultivate with the future in mind, for biodiversity and for all life that needs space to grow. The garden is a generously laid table, filled with color, shape and fragrance, an invitation to both rest and movement. The deep tones of the amaranth, the opulence of the dahlias, the light clouds of the statice and the self-evident light of the sunflowers together create a blooming rhythm throughout the season.

The garden is also my greatest source of inspiration. This is where the ideas for the watercolors I paint and the patterns I design are born. The colors, shapes and the interplay between the wild and the carefully arranged follow into the creation.

For me, growing is a way of hoping, of creating and of believing in the future, one seed at a time.