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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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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Site Character: An Approach to Creative Design 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 [...]

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“The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.” Legendary American landscape design figures—Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, and Fletcher Steele—all worked in the Hudson Valley.   Gardens of the Hudson Valley celebrates the historic and artistic landscape. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan [...]

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