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...
I love your mailbox! Ours is pretty large too - and it requires a key to access the contents, which says something about the world we live in. My daffodils are peaking at the moment, after finally getting several days here and there with warmer temperatures. I hope yours follow suit.
ReplyDeleteLooks like just barely spring where you are. The Daffs are so bright and cheerful--they must lift the spirits of passers by--and the mail carriers--on cloudy days.
ReplyDeleteMailbox is great--you never know when you'll need to mail order a new plant, and its best to be prepared!
Here we're several weeks later than last year. I'm fine with that--not looking forward to dry, hot weather.
The Daffs look great along the fence... so have you marked the spots for either more bulbs or Hellebores?
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Not yet :)
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