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Rural Intelligence | Art Section: Art – Annotated
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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.
The Flatbush Gardener Slideshows Brine Garden Natives
…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 slopes, steeply at times, from the unpaved entrance drive down to Route 22. Water flows through the property…
[wonderful images by the Flatbush Gardener herein]
Brine Garden’s Edible Shrubs & Kitchen Gardener’s Jennifer Bartley
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PlantersPlace.com | The Kitchen Garden | Edible Shrubs at the Brine Garden
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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 into a paradise garden of framed views, vistas, meandering pathways, and places to sit and take it all in. The garden is a study in naturalistic design emphasizing the artistic use of native trees, shrubs and perennials. As we meandered through the vast garden we snacked on some ripe edible berries and talked about homemade preserves and jellies.
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