Good for birds, good for gardens: the lessons of a freezing winter – Times Online   It all goes to underline a point that has become increasingly true in recent years: the suburbs are now nationally significant for wildlife   you’ll find much more biodiversity in your garden.   Gardens matter. They can be regarded [...]

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The large scale farm ditches shown here might successfully influence the design of smaller scale ditches. http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/howwework/art30290.html

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Structuring Nature: Whole-property Landscape Design February 18, 2010 – Speaker Duncan Brine of Horticultural Design Inc., Pawling, N.Y. Duncan Brine lives, gardens and runs his landscape business on six acres in Pawling, N.Y., the site of a former dairy farm. By the standards of most home gardeners, his is a large garden. And in his [...]

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Miss Rumphias, aka Susan Cohan, Visits the Brine Garden Trifecta at the Twitter Track by Susan Cohan © gardenlarge.com “Duncan Brine aka @gardenlarge, who with his wife Julia, has a wonderful and totally unique garden in Pawling, NY. He graciously invited me to visit on my way to the TweetUp. I knew in advance I [...]

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…I also got to meet Julia and Duncan Brine. In their landscape design firm, they specialize in native plants, so I was excited to meet them and visit their gardens. The gardens ramble over six acres. In contrast to the familiar limitations of urban gardening, it may as well have been 600 acres. The property [...]

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