A garden is an active site for care. Ruta Rhus provides garden design, installation, maintenance, and landscape consultation with a focus on ecoregional horticulture. Based in New York City, each space—from small rooftop terraces to Rockefeller Center—is approached with site-specific intention and a commitment to bioregional ecology. Each new project is an opportunity for collaboration between person and plant, plant and site, site and city.
Mirror Planter, East Village Lodi, Rockefeller Center Pandiscio Green, Chelsea Rooftop Layout, Bowery Vitis (grape vine) TRIGGER PLANTING, Frieze New York, The Shed TRIGGER PLANTING, Frieze New York, The Shed Brooklyn Heights Bowery (Symphyotrichum) Aster Bowery, Summer Bowery, Fall Time Out Market, Empire Stores, DUMBO Trinity Church Time Out Market, Empire Stores, DUMBO Perennial Border, Bowery Rooftop Backyard Garden, Chelsea Kasmin Gallery Rooftop Sculpture Garden, Chelsea Perennial Border, Bowery Rooftop Channel Gardens, Rockefeller Center Let’s work together!
Consultant, Studio Kaufman Lange, Los Angeles, CA.
Instructor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Continuing Education, Brooklyn, NY.
Assistant and Records Manager, Lynden B. Miller Public Garden Design, New York, NY.
Future Green Studio, Head Gardener, Brooklyn, NY.
Designer, freelance, Julia Watson LLC., New York, NY.
TILT (what if these plants get out), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.
Vinegar Hill House, Garden Redesign and Installation, DUMBO, NY.
Bordering Plants, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
TRIGGER PLANTING, Frieze New York, The Shed, NY.
Rockefeller Center Christmas Channel Gardens, Design for Julia Watson.
Rockefeller Center, Winter Campus Re-Design, Design for Julia Watson.
Pandiscio Green, Rooftop Patio, Chelsea, NY.
WIENWOCHE, Festival for Arts and Activism, Sandleitenhof, Vienna, Austria.
Kasmin Gallery, Rooftop Sculpture Garden, for Future Green Studio, Chelsea, NY.