The Gardens of Mien Ruys - a book review
I don't know how I missed her, but I was totally unfamiliar with Mien Ruys. A beautiful new book The Gardens of Mien Ruys details her life and work. Born in the Netherlands in 1904, she was the daughter of Bonne Ruys, who founded Moerheim Nursery in 1888. She grew up in a liberal atmosphere and encouraged to learn and study. She found great comfort in the natural world around her and learned all the plants in her father's nursery at a young age. After leaving school at the age of 19, she knew that she wanted to work in the garden center. The Moerheim Nursery, in addition to selling plants, had an on-site design studio where they published a detailed catalog and sold landscape design plans to customers. It was in the design studio where Ruys first began to work and she was soon encouraged to venture beyond her country and study abroad. Her father's connections helped her secure a traineeship with Wallace & Sons Nursery in Tunbridge Wells in England. There, she met Gertr...
Hi Phillip...The rain has been abundant. That is an odd place for it to grow! Mushrooms are everywhere; great big fairy rings in front yards all over the city! Have the reservoirs and lakes returned to normal after all this rain?
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ReplyDeleteThere's a fairy ring down the street from me that crosses their driveway. It's got to be at least eight feet wide.
ReplyDeleteI 've no idea whether its edible but you have to admit that its definitely optimistic.
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Now that shot is the epitome of Autumn!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's edible but I wouldn't base a dinner party around it, ha.
Oh your capture is superb, Phillip! We too have had much rain and there is a large fairy ring at city hall! On the lawn that is. :-)
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Great shot!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I would venture out on a limb that "it might be edible......" Just enjoy it as is!
An excellent photo. It looks so elegant. I wouldn't eat it though. I don't know if it is edible. Mushrooms often have poisonous look alikes.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great picture!
ReplyDeleteWe've been getting drenched in Jxn MS too. And my raised vegetable beds are filled with mushrooms. Oh well, good compost material (I think?!)
A Chef in the Garden posted about mushrooms, too, though his was much more, erm, attention-getting, LOL! The soil is SO DRY here, it is hard to get the spade in more than a few inches and I'm needing to plant a bunch of stuff! The dahlias are still blooming, but I'll dig them out for you in a few weeks. They are in an area of improved soil so they will be easier to get out!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would experiment with eating that mushroom...
ReplyDeleteWe have them everywhere as well and have probably had the same rains. The rings are pretty neat to see.
It's beautiful. We've seen a variety of mushrooms here too. Yours is a lovely color.
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What an exquisite photo Phillip! What an eye! Not sure if it is edible but most likely some critter will eat it soon, that is if your autos do make mushroom pudding of it. I hear you and Georgia are having flooding... hopefully you are too high for that.
ReplyDeleteHi Phillip, I wandered into here from Rob at 'my french garden' and have really enjoyed reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm also quite envious of your rain - unusual from a Brit in the north of England but, hey, we've not had proper rain for about a month and the garden is looking a bit weary!
I don't know anything about mushrooms and tend to leave them well alone, but that's a great photo! :)
Even watering will bring out the mushrooms. Last week when I watered one bed with soaker hose, up popped a colony of mushrooms. Your photo is really good.
ReplyDeleteGreat capture! Perhapa it's feeding off fallen leaves..
ReplyDeleteWhat a great picture! I've just started noticing them in the last few days around here.
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