The Gardens of Mien Ruys
Strong Design, Lush Planting, and the Origins of the Modernist Garden
$72.53
- Hardcover
284 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2025
Summary
A celebration of 100 years of the Mien Ruys Gardens, where legendary designer Mien Ruys conducted her lifetime of experimentations and innovations that have deeply informed today’s naturalistic gardening movement.
Widely considered the Mother of the Modernist garden, Mien Ruys (1904-1999) is one of the most influential gardeners and landscape architects of the 20th Century. The Gardens of Mien Ruys is the first authorized book in English to discuss her life, influence, proces…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781643265339 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1643265334 |
| Author: | Conny den Hollender |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Timber Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 284 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 218mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
“Chock-full of transportive photographs, The Gardens of Mien Ruys could be mistaken for a coffee-table book, but Conny den Hollander, the head of the Mien Ruys Gardens in the Netherlands, brings depth and expertise to the beautiful images.”–Landscape Architecture Magazine
“If you’re an aficionado of today’s modern gardens, you’ll want to know how it all began, and you’ll find out in this book.”–Garden Design Online
“Written by the head of the Mien Ruys Gardens, who continues to steward Ruys’s horticultural legacy, this is part biography and part case study.”–Gardens Illustrated
“Den Hollander delivers a comprehensive debut survey of the work of Dutch landscape and garden architect Mien Ruys…Throughout, vibrant full-page photos reveal the artistry of Ruys’s work. Garden aficionados will be inspired.”–Publishers Weekly
“Some gardens you merely visit, but Mien Ruys Gardens is more like a pilgrimage to the revolutionary birthplace of modern landscape design. It’s remarkable to think that much of what we commonly accept about western gardens today dates back to the design experiments conducted here by Mien Ruys over her long lifetime. This is where I discovered the full creative possibilities of her maxim Wild planting in a strong design, an idea that deeply inspired the original Dutch Wave and continues to be piercingly relevant today.”
–Tony Spencer, The New Perennialist
About The Author
Conny den Hollender
Conny den Hollander is the head of the Mien Ruys Gardens and has worked there since 2010. She has an intimate knowledge of the gardens and how they have developed over time. She also writes for the magazine Onze Eigen Tuin (Our Own Garden), a magazine founded by Mien Ruys and her husband, publisher Theo Moussault.
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