Built around a water well in a Transylvanian garden, this small rural retreat is a collaboration with my mother, a wish to create a new act of culture in an agrarian, traditional landscape.

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Dear friends,

First of all, a big thanks for all your contributions. We are also very excited to announce the collaboration with my friend Adina Filculescu from enRose Design, a passionate specialist on plants and gardens, to develop together the natural world around our small rural retreat - a place where we want to blend together culture and nature. We also hope to share our experiences in architecture and landscape through future workshops and events in this garden.

We thank her for boarding this journey and supporting us, and we wish all of you a blooming New Year!

You are the first 10%!By Laura Cristea, on 23/12/2025

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The beginnings – Bărdesti in 2017, with my parents.
The beginnings – Bărdesti in 2017, with my parents.

Dear friends,

Even if some of you are and will remain anonymous to us, we are deeply grateful for your support in the hardest part - the beginnings!

The thoughts about how hard it is to start something and take action made me look back - at the first photo I took in 2017 of this place, while my parents were gardening and my mind started to imagine things. Seven years later, my father is not with us anymore, but me and my mother want to continue cultivating more than vegetables here - creating a place of encounters, culture, architecture and nature.

As you might know, this is an all-or-nothing fundraising, so we encourage you to share further the news, as word-of-mouth is still a very powerful tool. We have also introduced today a meaningful reward - Plant-me-a-Tree! - for those who wish to become a living part of our garden.

Thank you again and Merry Christmas close to your loved ones, Laura, Elena and the Pelinu team