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]]> http://www.gardenlarge.com/2012/02/22/duncan-brine-to-present-at-peconic-land-trusts-lecture-series-bridgehampton-ny/feed/ 0 http://www.gardenlarge.com/2012/03/16/join-us-in-the-hamptons-this-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=join-us-in-the-hamptons-this-weekend http://www.gardenlarge.com/2012/03/16/join-us-in-the-hamptons-this-weekend/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:36:09 +0000 Julia Brine http://www.gardenlarge.com/?p=3180 Hudson Valley’s Duncan Brine, aka Garden Large,
Speaks in the Hamptons on Sunday, March 18 at 1pm

The Peconic Land Trust announces its third annual lecture series at Bridge Gardens, in Bridgehampton, NY. On March 18 at 1:00pm, Duncan Brine, principal of Garden Large, presents his naturalistic landscape design process, expanding on his recent article in “American Gardener” magazine.

“A naturalistic garden combines a gardener’s needs and desires with nature’s dictates; its design cannot be premeditated because its inherent beauty is inextricably linked to the landscape on which it is created.”

Mr. Brine is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the New England Wild Flower Society. Garden Large specializes in native plants and whole property gardens. Visit www.gardenlarge.com, for more about Garden Large, Duncan Brine, and the Brine Garden.

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The Long Bridge at the Brine Garden, Pawling, NY 

Scott Medbury, president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Vincent Simeone, director of Planting Fields Arboretum, and others, are also featured in the speaker series. Reservations are required and the fee is $15 per person. Refreshments will be served following each program.

For reservations and additional dates and details on the speaker series, go to Bridge Gardens on www.PeconicLandTrust.org.

The Peconic Land Trust

The Peconic Land Trust was established in 1983 to conserve Long Island’s working farms and natural lands.  The nonprofit Trust has worked in concert with landowners, local government, partner organizations, and communities to conserve over 10,000 acres in NY, on Long Island. The Trust’s professional staff carries out the necessary research and planning to identify and implement alternatives to development. While working to conserve the productive farms, watersheds, woodlands, and beach front of Long Island, the Trust is also protecting the unique rural heritage and natural resources of the region. The Trust has Stewardship Centers in Southold, Cutchogue, Bridgehampton and Amagansett and its Main Office is in Southampton, NY. The public is invited to enjoy a wide variety of fun and educational activities through the Trust’s “Connections” programs which strive to connect people to the natural lands of Long Island’s East End.

Bridge Gardens

Bridge Gardens was established in 1988 by Harry Neyens and Jim Kilpatric, who designed and installed the gardens over the ensuing 10 years. In 1997, Bridge Gardens Trust was created as a charitable corporation to maintain and preserve the gardens. In 2008, Neyens and Kilpatric donated Bridge Gardens to the Peconic Land Trust. Rick Bogusch, a landscape architect with a long career at Cornell Plantations in Ithaca, NY,  is the garden manager.

Bridge Gardens covers over five acres and consists of an Inner Garden and an Outer Garden. Developed first, the Inner Garden features a large, meticulously-trimmed knot garden surrounded by beds of 180 different culinary, medicinal, ornamental, and textile and dyeing herbs. Overlooking these plantings, the garden house is the manager’s residence/education center. In the Outer Garden, the favorite attraction is a collection of antique and modern roses. Bridge Gardens also contains animal topiaries, a lavender parterre, perennial beds and borders, a water garden, woodland paths, a hidden bamboo room, double hedgerows of privet with viewing ports, and specimen shrubs and trees.

• Advice Offered On Creating A Naturalistic Landscape Design – 27east

  Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press

  By Anne Halpin

  Gardeners interested in a more natural look for their landscapes were treated to an inspiring and insightful talk on Sunday afternoon at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton by Duncan and Julia Brine.

  

  The Long Bridge at the Brine Garden © gardenlarge.com

  The principal designer and his wife and partner in the Pawling, New York-based Garden Large, a naturalistic landscape design firm…

  Their talk focused on the process of making a naturalistic garden personal and unique to each site…

  The first step in the process involves acquiring a sense of the region and the characteristics of your particular property, what Mr. Brine calls “the givens.”

  Mr. Brine used his own family’s property in Dutchess County to illustrate the design process…

  For Mr. Brine, naturalistic landscape design responds to the native plants already in place. The landscape is understood as an environment, the plantings part of a whole—a bigger picture than a traditional garden bed or border…

  For the Brines, the goal of a naturalistic garden is to, in Mr. Brine’s words, “idealize and partner with nature’s potential in a place.”

  A large garden such as theirs can replicate the different ecosystems of slopes, and wet lowlands, the plantings visually integrating with views of their neighbor’s property and the distant ridgelines. On a small property, a naturalistic garden can’t invoke an entire ecosystem, but it can serve as a fragment of nature, a quotation of a natural environment.

  The naturalistic garden…can offer a refuge and respite for the senses. And because the plants are chosen to suit the givens, the garden will look like it belongs there, and the plants will thrive. It’s a low-maintenance, resource-conservative place that can nourish the gardener’s soul as it helps nature along…

  These are excerpts, for the full article, go to http://www.27east.com/

Schedule Duncan to speak to your group.

“When Duncan Brine talks about his garden in Pawling, Dutchess County, he often uses the words “mystery,” “surprise” and “drama.” And if you stroll around the grounds that he has cultivated over the past many years, it’s clear that it was those notions, rather than the usual horticultural aesthetics, that were the driving force behind its design. The place is by turns mysterious and surprising, with a dash of drama for good measure.”

– Hudson Valley Magazine, Best of the HudsonValley, Lynn Hazlewood

2012:

Bridge Gardens, in Bridgehampton, NY

March 18, from 1pm to 3pm

Recent Talks and Seminars:

The New York Botanical Garden Seminar

The Berkshire Botanical Garden

Connecticut Horticultural Society

The New England Wildflower Society Seminar

Garden Inspiration: Spring Talks at The Otesaga Resort
in Cooperstown, NY

The St. Louis, Missouri, Garden Club of America

The Hardy Plant Society of New England, Connecticut Chapter

Putnam County Master Gardeners, Spring Gardening School

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“We conserve beautiful gardens because they are a vital part of our nation’s cultural heritage.”

The Garden Conservancy is the first national organization devoted to preserving exceptional American gardens for the public’s education and enjoyment.
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.”

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The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine

2012 Open Day
Saturday, October 13, from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine
Pawling, NY

This naturalistic six-acre garden and arboretum has been underway since 1990. Two 1920s farmhouses establish an old-fashioned ambience. They sit on a cliff over a marsh and glade and enjoy long vistas of distant ridges.

Gravel pathways and native plants from the owner’s nursery connect horticulturally diverse areas. Naturalistic and garden areas blend. At this transitional time of year, there are fewer flowers and more berries. Fall foliage color begins to tint a varied array of plants which structure the garden, including an allée of Taxodium and groupings of Acer triflorum, Betula nigra, Parrotia, and Miscanthus giganteus. A plant list indicates U.S. and Dutchess County natives.Recently, Anne Raver of The New York Times, Carleen Madigan Perkins of Horticulture and Lynn Hazelwood of Hudson Valley Magazine wrote enthusiastic profiles of the garden.

Handicapped Accessibility: no

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Directions
Native and Indigenous Plants at the Brine Garden

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