Mien Ruys was a famous dutch garden and landscape architect. In her hometome Dedemsvaart, her experimental garden is carried on as a national garden monument. Mien Ruys had the desire to make good design accessible for many. She developed the Confectie Borders, small standard gardens as inspiration for people who did not have much experience or the money for a landscape architect. She was not intersted in drawing from plentiful ressources, but rather in experimentation: a shade garden, a yellow garden, adapting the choice of plants to the local soil.
In keeping with these ideas, the Confectie Boxes were produced, combinations of seeds for particular conditions: Sunny Box, Shadow Box, Acid Box, Chalky Box, Bee Box.
