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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Friends of the Farmer | Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival | FARM ON! “FRIENDS OF THE FARMER FESTIVAL“ for Hudson Valley Food Lovers Taste the best of the Hudson Valley farm movement. July 30th, 2011 | 11am-11pm Copake Lake, NY

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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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Facebook Brine Garden page Monday: Anne Raver talk on her FAVES at the Horticultural Society “closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY.? “   The Horticultural Society of New York www.hsny.org April 11, 2011 Anne’s Favorites: Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their [...]

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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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