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 the city. There I found inspiration in moving away from the status quo of traditional gardens and toward a career creating naturalistic gardens….

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The Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book.

“The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.”
— Gardens of the Hudson Valley
Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry

Gardens of the Hudson Valley, by co-writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner,  is the topic of this spring 2011 Rocky Hills Lecture.  Photography of some of the valley’s iconic and historic gardens, both public and private, by Sue Daley and Steve Gross, will be featured.

Rocky Hills, the garden of Henriette and William Suhr, is a Garden Conservancy Preservation Project in Mount Kisco, New York. The Rocky Hills Lecture Series is presented by the Friends of Rocky Hills.

Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Chappaqua Public Library
195 South Greeley Avenue
Chappaqua, New York
Free admission

Frederic Edwin Church: Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) Cleveland Museum of Art

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Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book.

The majesty of the Hudson River has captivated both artists and visitors for generations, and the gardens along its banks have a unique character. From the early gardens of riverfront estates like Clermont and Montgomery Place, with their sweeping lawns and spectacular views of the river and far-off mountains, to the Beaux Arts masterpiece Kykuit and the 1950s gardens at Manitoga, the historic gardens highlight the significant r…ole of the Hudson Valley in the development of American landscape design. Many of the major figures worked here, including Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, and Fletcher Steele, and their ideas continue to resonate in the 21st century. Included are a number of private, contemporary gardens that are informed by both the history and topography of the valley; the grand themes evoked in the larger historic properties are echoed in these smaller, more modest landscapes.

Hort members $10; non-members $15

Register online at: www.hsny.org/programs_workshops_talks_tours.html#gardens_hudsonvalley

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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 Daly specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle. Steve and Sue have selected twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including the fabled estate gardens – Kykuit, Boscobel, and Olana (open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings.

Garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner are the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton. In Gardens of the Hudson Valley they describe each of the gardens, focusing on the history of the site and the strategies for design and plant materials.

Forward by Gregory Long, president of The New York Botanical Garden
Monacelli Press
Publication date: October 19, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-58093-277-6 (1-58093-277-0)

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Photographs: Sue Daley and Steve Gross
Text: Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry
Forward: Gregory Long,
President of The New York Botanical Garden

Monacelli Press, a division of Random House
Publication date: October 19, 2010

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Soon to be published, Gardens of the Hudson Valley features the Brine Garden  among “twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous estate gardens like Kykuit, Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, and Olana (all open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings”.

Steve Gross and Sue Daley are photographers who specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle.

Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry have teamed up before as the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton.

The Monacelli Press  is a leading publisher of books on architecture, the fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, and graphic design. The Press is known for studies of historic and contemporary artists and architects; for perceptive photodocumentation of places and events; for exceptional volumes on traditional and contemporary interior design; for energetic collections of graphic and product design.

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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.

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

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