Binnenland·parool.nl·4 sep

Gardening between the clouds – Marleen (32) takes care of 370 little gardens on a high-rise in Amsterdam: ‘Just don’t fall’

Twice a week, gardener Marleen Purmer (32) drives from Arnhem to the Zuidas. Clipped to a thick rope, she tends the planters of residential and office tower Valley at a hundred meters up. ‘Above wind force 5, you just don’t do it.’