NARGS Book of the Month

Mien Ruys: The Mother of Modernist Gardens by Julia Crawford. Lund Humphries, London, 2023. 144 pp. $79.99 list, $56.42 Amazon.

            Mien Ruys was an influential garden designer pioneering the modernist style. She designed over 3,000 gardens from 1923 until her death in 1999, primarily in her native Netherlands. Her plans used clean, modern lines coupled with a naturalistic planting style that emphasized...