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GardenLarge specializes in rural properties: planting natives and removing invasives.
Projects in Connecticut and in New York’s counties of Westchester, Dutchess, Columbia, and Ulster.
Big Gestures
“Large spaces in the country call for a large treatment, a big gesture,” Duncan Brine believes….
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His desire to ‘find the connection’ with a site dictates his landscapes. ‘It doesn’t make sense to do arbitrary things,’ he says. ‘The plants, the buildings, the site are all connected.’ “
—Lynn Hazlewood, Hudson Valley Magazine, “Best of the Hudson Valley”
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” ‘The house is the soul of the property,’ and should relate accordingly to the gardens and views.When planting, mix up the foreground and background in a planting, he suggests, breaking a fairly traditional gardening rule. Traditionally, tall plants are in back. He suggests planting something large and transparent in front, like grasses… The use of native plants is very important. Non-native plants, Brine explained, can behave in a “thuggish” way and maul both the look of the landscape and the chemistry of the soil.
— The News Times, HomeStyle, Deb Keiser
“GardenLarge specializes in the renovation of older estates whose new owners want a complete overhaul.”
— Taconic Press Weekend & Adams Fairacre Farms, Mark Adams
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“Brine’s landscaping style is best suited to larger gardens, although he usually designs in stages… “Clients have so far happily accepted his suggestions. ‘Once they get a great-looking garden, they say, “why not extend it?”, he remarks. And that’s an idea Duncan Brine can understand.”
— Hudson Valley Magazine, Best of the Hudson Valley, Lynn Hazlewood