Rural Intelligence | Art Section: Art – Annotated   Gallery on the Green in Pawling, NY will honor the 20th anniversary of The Brine Garden, a remarkable private garden there, with an exhibition of photographs and botanical watercolors.

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Roy Diblik: Champion of natives and influential plantsman By Beth Botts   X St. Charles (Kane, Illinois)   Geneva (Swiss Confederation)   Morton Arboretum   Missouri   Lake Geneva   Millennium Park   Art Institute of Chicago     chicagotribune.com – (via Garden Writers Today)   …project by project, plant by plant, Diblik, 57, has [...]

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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 [...]

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…I also got to meet Julia and Duncan Brine. In their landscape design firm, they specialize in native plants, so I was excited to meet them and visit their gardens. The gardens ramble over six acres. In contrast to the familiar limitations of urban gardening, it may as well have been 600 acres. The property [...]

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PlantersPlace.com | The Kitchen Garden | Edible Shrubs at the Brine Garden I met Duncan Brine at the Garden Writers Association Symposium last year in Portland but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a peek at his fabulous garden in the Hudson Valley. Duncan and his wife Julia have transformed their six acre property [...]

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