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...
So nice to get some new blooms to keep the garden going late in the season.
ReplyDeleteI can not say enough nice things about my 'Orange Peel'. It began blooming in May and has not stopped yet. It even got pruned by a car, and you would not know it today.
ReplyDeleteHow I wish the 'golden jasmine' would bloom in the northeast!
ReplyDeleteThe blue chip buddleia is so pretty. I had that once. It didn't like it here for some reason.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Are you going to root any of them over the winter?
ReplyDeleteMy apple trees are blooming. Lovely blooms.
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love the wide variety of critters attracted by your buddleia? Mine has become quite the attraction!
ReplyDeleteLove checking out your buddleiia with such a variance in size and color.
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