The New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden

The Brine Design:
Landscape and Garden Principles in Practice

Join an on-site seminar at landscape designer Duncan Brine’s own six-acre garden. The Brine Garden – now in its 21st year – resembles a public garden, with multiple areas, each with its own character.

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America’s first native plant group, The New England Wild Flower Society of Framingham, Massachusetts is to visit the Brine Garden this fall.

Native plants from Horticultural Design’s nursery help the Brine Garden blend with adjacent naturalistic areas and preserved lands. Anne Raver of The New York Times recently described the garden as a “dream-like landscape.” Author Ruah Donnelly describes The Brine Garden as “a naturalistic display garden of remarkable artistry and diversity.” Prolific garden book author, Tovah Martin, writes that at the Brine Garden, “elements of concealment and surprise are written into the landscape.” This roaming seminar will include a discussion of Duncan Brine’s landscape design process, and respond to your observations and questions.

Leader: Duncan Brine is the Principal of Horticultural Design, Inc., Pawling, NY, as well as an instructor for the New York Botanical Garden.

Fall 2011

Saturday, October 1, from 1pm to 4p

Registration

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  • The Academy of Art University in San Francisco has recently launched a new program in landscape architecture, offering two separate degrees — a Bachelors Degree (a four-year program); or an Associates Degree (a two-year program).

    According to the university, landscape architecture is expected to be one of the top 50 professions in the next decade.

     

     

More information and inspiration on the Brine Garden page

Discover a contextual approach to shaping landscape and garden space. A design method
is outlined which bases decision-making on the characteristics of the site, not conventional
style or structure. Topics include connecting spaces, the relationship between background and foreground, transparency, and framing views. The instructor illustrates his talk with images of his 6-acre naturalistic garden.

Instructor: Duncan Brine

Friday, February 25, 2011 from 10 am -12 pm.

Registration

If you’re able to get to this class, consider following it with lunch on Arthur Ave. or a stroll through the garden (weather permitting).

Duncan Brine
Principal Landscape Designer
Horticultural Design, Inc.
speaks on
Living in Nature
at the Berkshire Botanical Garden

 Saturday, January 30

For more on this talk go to gardenlarge.com.

The New York Botanical Garden
presents a seminar
Site Character: An Approach to Creative Design
with
Duncan Brine

Wednesday, February 17, 10am – 12pm

For more on this seminar go to gardenlarge.com.

Connecticut Horticultural Society
presents
Duncan Brine
Structuring Nature: Whole Property Design

Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm

For more on this talk go to gardenlarge.com.

The Monacelli
Press

Upcoming book from the Monacelli Press,
a division of Random House,

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

by Steve Gross and Sue Daley
features the Brine Garden.

Publication date fall 2010

New book from Timber Press
by Jennifer Benner and Stephanie Cohen
features the Brine Garden.

Publication date 2010

Storey Publishing’s
Designer Plant Combinations (Published 2008)
by Scott Calhoun
features ten pages of images and plant combinations
from the Brine Garden.

Scott is a recipient of the highest awards from
the American Horticultural Society and
the Garden Writers Association of America.

His blog: Scott Calhoun’s Desert

Inspired Calligraphy, The Brine Garden © Scott Calhoun 

‘The example titled Inspired Calligraphy (Brine Garden, pg 202) features
‘Nana’ dwarf purple willow, ‘Autumn Spire’ maple and “Tardiva’ hydrangea.
Scott poetically describes the effect of the maple’s foliage: “Creeping into the vignette,
the ‘Autumn Spire’ provides a dash of red, like a confident brushstroke
in black and red Japanese calligraphy.” ‘

– Billy Goodnick, Fine Gardening Blog

Win a copy of Designer Plant Combinations from Fine Gardening.

Read “Eden Reconsidered“

An Appreciation of the Brine Garden

by Marilyn Bethany

Join Duncan. He’s @gardenlarge
on Twitter.

gardenlarge.com

Naturalistic Landscape Design
Horticultural Design, Inc., Duncan Brine and the Brine Garden
hortdesign@gardenlarge.com  (845) 855-9023

Schedule a garden consultation for this fall.

At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption.  A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always with an eye to the big picture.  His garden has no apparent edges: it flows, not so much from “room-to-room,” as we’ve been taught a garden should, but from atmospheric eco-system to eco-system. If this is theatre, it is in the round, not trapped inside a proscenium arch.  At every turn, there’s a surprise, yet, in the end, it all seems inevitable, as if Brine got permission to bend nature to his whim.

All good gardens are instructive.  This one?  It will blow your mind.

Brine founded his naturalistic landscape design and installation firm in 1984. He is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the New England Wild Flower Society. Brine wrote the introduction to Penguin/Putnam’s anthology The Literary Garden: Bringing Fiction’s Best Gardens to Life.

The volunteer Master Gardener program originated in the Northwest in 1972 to disseminate horticultural knowledge. It soon proliferated nationally. The Putnam County Master Gardeners and Cornell Cooperative Extension educators Dianne Olsen and Jennifer Stengle lead the classes and workshops of the Spring Gardening School informed by the scientific research of New York’s Cornell University.

Classes include the recent revival of interest in Coleus, new ideas for container gardens, the hands-on workshop Turf Love: environmental lawn care, preventing or delaying tree death, creating a cutting garden, fresh ideas for growing salad greens, organic ways to protect your plants from pests and disease, and a hands-on class in plant propagation. Participants may choose four of the eight classes offered. The day concludes with a question-and-answer panel.

Keynote speaker, Duncan Brine’s 6-acre garden in Pawling, NY    © gardenlarge

Start the gardening season by joining the enthusiasm of the Putnam County Master Gardeners’ Spring Garden School on Saturday, April 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., at the Emergency Training & Operations Center, 112 Old Route 6, in Carmel, NY.

Pre-registration is going on now. Call 845-278-6738. The fee is $40 per person. (Continental breakfast provided. Please bring your own lunch.) Registrations are taken until the day before the event and walk-ins are welcome. For more about keynote speaker Duncan Brine, go to www.gardenlarge.com.

Join an on-site seminar at landscape designer Duncan Brine’s own six-acre garden. The Brine Garden resembles a public garden, with multiple areas, each with its own character.

© HD
Native plants from an on-site nursery were incorporated to help the garden blend with naturalistic areas and adjacent preserved lands. Anne Raver of The New York Times recently described the garden as a “dream-like landscape.” Author Ruah Donnelly describes The Brine Garden as “a naturalistic display garden of remarkable artistry and diversity.” Prolific garden book author, Tovah Martin, writes that at the Brine Garden, “elements of concealment and surprise are written into the landscape.” This roaming seminar will include a discussion of Duncan Brine’s landscape design process, and respond to your observations and questions.

Leader: Duncan Brine is the Principal of Horticultural Design, Inc., Pawling, NY, as well as an instructor for the New York Botanical Garden.

Saturday, October 11, 1-4 p.m. 2008

Registration