New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden | Garden Large 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 – [...]

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The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Garden Large The Garden Conservancy opens the gates of America‘s finest private gardens by inviting the public to visit. The Conservancy’s Open Days Program encourages appreciation of “gardens as living works of art.”   © gardenlarge The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine 2011 [...]

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In Philadelphia, a Garden Grows Wild – NYTimes.com Ms. Ruddick decided to embrace the philosophy embodied in a line she remembered from an old New Yorker: “Don’t just do something. Stand there!” She worked for years in India, she said, where people stop for the rituals that mark the passages of life. “How many times [...]

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Garden Rant: Native vs. invasive once again—it’s Tallamy’s turn I am not a purist and I don’t expect many other people will be either. I think taking the hard line and insisting on all natives will go a long way toward killing the movement. —Doug Tallamy, Garden Rant interview, 12/12/07 Mild-mannered Doug Tallamy, author of [...]

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Inviting Nature into Your Garden If you’re starting a new garden or contemplating a redesign, consider a naturalistic approach, which has renewed relevance in today’s environment. © 2011 Rob Cardillo TWENTY YEARS AGO, I left New York City with my future wife to make a garden and a new life in the country, north of [...]

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