“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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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 [...]

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gardenhistorygirl The Elizabethan Snail Mount The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning. Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and [...]

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Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide – Annotated Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much [...]

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Rural Intelligence | The Online News Source for Dutchess County & Columbia County, New York – Litchfield County, Connecticut – Berkshire County, Massachusetts | Reality Check: Commonweal Annotated Info on Gifford Garden in Millbrook, NY here Re The Mount: more than 100 people attended a public forum on the future of The Mount, the Edith [...]

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