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...
A fantastic pic, Phillip. Nice memories, but now for some global warming and positive thoughts that we don't get even flurries tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo Philip... our day in the 50's will be followed by the first major snow of the season tomorrow... perhaps 6"-10" depending on who one listens to... just in time to protect against the cold that's following the snow. Larry
ReplyDeleteNow this is winter. We haven't had much winter to talk about this year. We are to get some snow by 9:30 this morning, so they say. I will believe it when I see it.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo Phillip, I had a lot of fun driving around Tuscumbia after work taking pictures for the calendar. By the time I got home it was dark and don't have many from around my place. I have the depot, courthouse and stagecoach stop in the 2012 calendar and have one of the Almon house & Locust Hills I'd like to use in the 2013 calendar. Mary
ReplyDeleteyou wishing or what? Nice picture but hope you don't have a chance to take another one like it.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe. I bet now you have camellias blooming instead of snow.
ReplyDeleteI am not complaining! The snow was beautiful last year, but what a mess it made.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo Phillip. But I prefer green!! hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful...idyllic, really :-)
ReplyDeleteI must have been asleep when this happened last year?!? How often does it snow there? I'd have thought...never?
ReplyDeletePhillip what a beautiful shot of your snow-covered garden.
ReplyDeleteI had to back track on my reading a little. This picture is so magical.:0)
ReplyDeleteWhen ever I need inspiration I always look at pictures of your garden.