An interview led and reported by Susan Cohan

In America, we have separate words for what most Brits call ‘a garden’.  It can be a yard, a garden, or a landscape depending on who you talk to.  Landscape designer, Duncan Brine, who is based in New York’s Hudson Valley, calls his own space a garden.  Duncan’s ideas of what constitutes a ‘garden’ challenge almost all of the traditional ideas of what a garden is.

Naturalistic in style with a strong focus on native plants, Duncan Brine’s aesthetic is not for the fainthearted.  His Garden Large website chronicles the garden and those who write about it.  There are also posts of many articles related to the broad topic of naturalistic design.  Last fall, when I visited Duncan and the Brine Garden, (also the studio for his design business Horticultural Design, Inc.) and now in its 20th year, I immediately understood that this was a thinking person’s garden.  Here are his answers to my nine questions.

http://thinkingardens.co.uk/articles/nine-questions-duncan-brine/