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Ruta    
 Rhus



 

                   

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!

Notable Positions

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.


Notable Projects

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.
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