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“The Nonstop Garden”, “Gardens of the Hudson Valley”, and “Designer Plant Combinations”

May 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Nonstop Hudson Valley Designer: Horticultural Design, Inc. and the Brine Garden Bound in Books The Nonstop Garden by Stephanie Cohen and Jennifer Benner includes one of our gardens Timber Press Pub. date May 2010 Stephanie, aka the Perennial Diva, is an award-winning author, speaker, and the former director of the Landscape Arboretum at Temple University [...]

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“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden

May 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden by Marilyn Bethany At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption.  A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always [...]

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Juicy New Book: Scott Calhoun’s Designer Plant Combinations

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Hot Off the Press: Designer Plant Combinations Awarded, accomplished, and colorful author,  Scott Calhoun traveled the country searching for the freshest, most exciting plant groupings. He visited the gardens of top designers from coast to coast and chose more than 100 combinations to include in his photographic celebration. Riots of complementary colors, masses of grasses, [...]

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It’s Tippy Terrain.org: Drink and Listen to Landscape Poetry and Prose–

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Terrain.org_10thAnniversaryReading.pdf (application/pdf Object) Scott of the blog, Scott Calhoun’s Desert will read. He’s an inspired and versatile writer, photographer and landscape designer.  

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Scott Calhoun’s Desert : a blog by an inspired and versatile writer, photographer and landscape designer

December 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Up in Brown Canyon: Exploring the Center of the Universe Excerpts: I had only viewed the unmistakable rock tower of Baboquivari from the north and west– the most sacred place for the Tohono O’odham tribe: Baboquivari, the center of the O’odham universe. We passed the fork to Jaguar Canyon and kept going to a grove [...]

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