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Anne Raver NY Times | Reveals Brine Garden as Favorite | The Horticultural Society of New York

Duncan Brine — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:34:38 +0000

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- 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.? “
  
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  April 11, 2011

Anne’s Favorites:

Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their rolling valley in Norwich, VT;

Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones at Windcliff, overlooking the Puget Sound in Indianola, WA;

Dennis and Cheryl Kamera on nearby Whidbey Island;

and closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY

“Gardens of the Hudson Valley” at Rocky Hills Lecture Series

Julia Brine — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:03:51 +0000

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

Charles A. Birnbaum: On Olana and the Upcoming Symposium

Duncan Brine — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:08 +0000

Charles A. Birnbaum: The Value of View
- April 16, 2011 symposium at Olana, Framing the Viewshed: The Transformative Power of Art and Landscape in the Hudson Valley.

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

For more information please check out our Brine Garden page

Our Natives & Insects Man, Douglas Tallamy, Speaks in Cambridge

Duncan Brine — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:47:31 +0000

http://grownativecambridge.org/programs/annualceleb
Tallamy may use images of the Brine Garden in his talk.

Tallamy’s book, “Bringing Nature Home” is fast becoming a classic for our times; it’s the best present you could give yourself or anyone else.

Native Plants, Insects, and Birds with Tallamy– Katonah 2010

Duncan Brine — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:29:37 +0000

“Bringing Nature Home” With Dr. Douglas Tallamy
Wednesday March 10, 7:30 p.m.
Katonah Memorial House, 71 Bedford Road, Katonah
With many of our bird species in serious decline, it is clear that we must change our approach to bird conservation if we hope to keep them in our future. This program sponsored by the Bedford Audubon Society focuses on the role of native plants in the restoration of our landscapes because only natives provide the coevolved relationships required by animals. By supporting a diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for birds, particularly during reproduction. Many people don’t want insects in their yards, but they do want birds. They need to realize that 96 percent of the terrestrial birds in the U.S. rear their young on insects.

By Bill Cary

http://gardening.lohudblogs.com/2010/03/06/upcoming-at-bedford-audubon-10/

Duncan Brine speaks to the Ct. Horticultural Society: public welcome, 2010

Duncan Brine — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:45:57 +0000

Structuring Nature: Whole-property Landscape Design February 18, 2010 – Speaker Duncan Brine of Horticultural Design Inc., Pawling, N.Y.

Duncan Brine lives, gardens and runs his landscape business on six acres in Pawling, N.Y., the site of a former dairy farm. By the standards of most home gardeners, his is a large garden. And in his garden, he gardens largely, in a style he calls “structured naturalism.”

Marilyn Bethany, writing for www.ruralintelligence.com, described how he has shaped his property: “At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption…He confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always with an eye to the big picture.

“His garden has no apparent edges: it flows, not so much from ‘room-to-room,’ as we’ve been taught a garden should, but from atmospheric eco-system to eco-system,” Bethany continued. “If this is theatre, it is in the round, not trapped inside a proscenium arch. At every turn, there’s a surprise, yet, in the end, it all seems inevitable, as if Brine got permission to bend nature to his whim.

Duncan specializes in whole-property landscape design. He discovers, protects and restores a landscape and its regional aspects while controlling invasive plants and reestablishing native plants. He bases design decisions on the characteristics of the site rather than on imported, conventional style or structure (although he has gained inspiration from traveling to traditional gardens in Europe and Asia).

Perhaps his view of gardening as art on a large scale derives from his early work as a filmmaker. A native of Rye, N.Y., he got the gardening bug when he renovated a plot behind his girlfriend (now wife) Julia’s home in Brooklyn as part of a film project.

He has said that to him a garden is like an unfolding narrative, discovered only by moving through space.

The Brine garden has been featured in many publications and books, including Scott Calhoun’s “Designer Plant Combinations” (Storey Publishing, 2008). Duncan opens his garden annually as part of The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program. In the off-season, he is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the New England Wild Flower Society.

If your garden is small, you might be tempted to think that Duncan’s garden, along with his “big-picture” views, holds little in the way of practical value for your circumstances. Think again.

A “gardening large” philosophy doesn’t necessarily relate to size, as Horticulture magazine’s Carleen Madigan Perkins observed in 2008. The philosophy embodies “the idea that an entire property, be it two acres or twenty, should be seen and treated as one garden…a series of interconnected spaces that reflect both the personal style of the creator and the history of the place,” she wrote.

To learn more about Duncan Brine, visit www.gardenlarge.com.

Tallamy’s, “Bringing Nature Home”– the book everyone is talking about

Duncan Brine — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:38 +0000

http://bringingnaturehome.net/native-gardening/gardening-for-life

Keeping Track, Wildlife Conservation

Julia Brine — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:14:04 +0000

Susan Morse gave an entertaining presentation tonight in Patterson, NY, enlivened by her own, stunning wildlife photography. The mission of her organization, Keeping Track, is “…to inspire community participation in the long-term stewardship of wildlife habitat.”

Job well done.

Cougar © Susan C.Morse

We have yet to see a cougar in the garden, but we have seen a bobcat.

Duncan Brine is Keynote Speaker at Master Gardeners’ Public Event

Duncan Brine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:38:08 +0000

The Master Gardeners of Putnam County are excited about their Spring Gardening School, a One-Day University on all things gardening. All are invited to join this annual event, which includes classes and a presentation with digital images by Duncan Brine, principal landscape designer of Horticultural Design, Inc. The New York Times, Horticulture Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine, and other publications have featured Brine’s work. His speech, “Structuring Nature: Whole Property Landscape Design,” focuses on his six-acre garden in Pawling, NY.

Brine founded his naturalistic landscape design and installation firm in 1984. He is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the New England Wild Flower Society. Brine wrote the introduction to Penguin/Putnam’s anthology The Literary Garden: Bringing Fiction’s Best Gardens to Life.

The volunteer Master Gardener program originated in the Northwest in 1972 to disseminate horticultural knowledge. It soon proliferated nationally. The Putnam County Master Gardeners and Cornell Cooperative Extension educators Dianne Olsen and Jennifer Stengle lead the classes and workshops of the Spring Gardening School informed by the scientific research of New York’s Cornell University.

Classes include the recent revival of interest in Coleus, new ideas for container gardens, the hands-on workshop Turf Love: environmental lawn care, preventing or delaying tree death, creating a cutting garden, fresh ideas for growing salad greens, organic ways to protect your plants from pests and disease, and a hands-on class in plant propagation. Participants may choose four of the eight classes offered. The day concludes with a question-and-answer panel.

Start the gardening season by joining the enthusiasm of the Putnam County Master Gardeners’ Spring Garden School on Saturday, April 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., at the Emergency Training & Operations Center, 112 Old Route 6, in Carmel, NY.

Pre-registration is going on now. Call 845-278-6738. The fee is $40 per person. (Continental breakfast provided. Please bring your own lunch.) Registrations are taken until the day before the event and walk-ins are welcome. For more about keynote speaker Duncan Brine, go to www.gardenlarge.com.

Garden Inspiration:at The Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown NY 2008

Duncan Brine — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:30 +0000

Garden Inspiration: Spring Talks at The Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown NY: Mother’s Day Weekend Annotated

Saturday, May 10 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m

“Three outstanding presenters”– Ruah Donnelly, Duncan Brine,
and Kerry Mendez.

I’m pleased that Ruah suggested to Kerry that I join this symposium.

I’ve known Ruah for more than several years; she is a classy lady. She is filled with stories, and wonderfully articulate about plants, nurseries, horticulture, and public gardens.

Ruah Donnelly is the author of The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New England and The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New York and New Jersey, both outstanding resources for exploring the best specialty nurseries in these areas.

Duncan Brine founded his naturalistic landscape design and installation firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., in 1984. (www.GARDENLARGE.com ) They specialize in native plants and whole property gardens. Recently, Anne Raver of The New York Times wrote about Duncan’s own 6-acre “dream-like landscape” in Pawling, NY.

Kerry Mendez, garden consultant, designer, writer, teacher, former TV garden spot host, and guest on HGTV, will ‘bookend’ their presentations with two new garden talks: Three Seasons Of Color -

For special package rates that include “gourmet food” at breakfast and lunch and an overnight stay, please call The Otesaga at (800) 348-6222. (www.otesaga.com Scroll to “Calendar” at bottom of main page.)

The symposium rate is $75 per person and includes all four presentations, morning coffee, lunch, door prize drawings, and a garden gift. For symposium only, register here.