Renowned Dutch plantsperson and designer Piet Oudolf is to establish a new garden in 2025.
To add to his gardens including those at Hauser and Wirth Somerset, RHS Wisley and the High Line in New York, will be the courtyard garden at Swedish art and design museum Vandalorum.
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The construction of the new garden will begin in February 2025 and will focus on 2,500m2 of space which will be transformed into a bowl-shaped plant environment designed for visitors to the museum. There will be 850m2 perennial meadow alongside artworks, rest areas, walkways, spaces for educational activities and a seating area for the museum's restaurant guests.
Piet's intentions behind the project is for it to be more than an extension of the terrace of the restaurant, but instead a place to 'linger'.
"The idea behind the courtyard is that it should be a place where people can truly immerse themselves in the garden and appreciate both the plants and the surrounding art," he says.
Piet Oudolf produced the a plan for the entire site in 2022, and this is the second phase of the design, which 'forms the heart of the Vandalorum', according to Elna Svenle, the museum's director.
The garden at the Vandalorum is Piet Oudolf's first at a Nordic cultural institution. Piet's previous work includes Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, and the garden of the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. He specialises in naturalistic planting design, rooted in the location and surrounding nature, creating gardens that evolve and captivate throughout all four seasons.
