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Pleasant Place, Issue 5 – Mien Ruys

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Release date: July 19, 2024

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Pleasant Place is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening. Pleasant Place informs and inspires by offering both practical and in-depth information as well as unexpected approaches to everyday garden tasks and garden design. Through collaborations with experts and artists Pleasant Place caters both to those who grow gardens as well as those who imagine gardens.

In this issue:

Mien Ruys was one of the most influential garden designers of the 20th century. You don’t know her? Fear not, we got you. Follow the Grion-tile road and discover the beautiful life and work of this garden icon.

Including:
Mien Ruys: Designing the Dutch garden – an introduction by garden designer and author Julia Crawford into Mien’s life, designs and awesomeness.

This is a border – How to create a fabulous border with some of Mien’s favourite plants.

A garden like mine made her completely nervous – We talked to Pien van der Stadt, who worked alongside Mien Ruys for twenty years.

Kleine stadstuintjes – Five artists interpret the canvas of a small urban garden plan. With Farida Sedoc, Sigrid Calon, Frédérique Albert-Bordenave, Nicole Martens and Vera van de Seyp.

Dear Mien, – a personal account by designer Bonne Reijn, who spent his earliest years with his great aunt Mien.

A set of garden miniatures by Carlyn Westerink.

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