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Kindred Manitoga

October 10, 2013 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Manitoga: Force of Nature | Garden Design

    • Named Manitoga by Wright after the Algonquin word for “place of great spirit,” his property consisted of a modernist house and studio set amid miles of landscape elements he coaxed out of existing vegetation. Altogether, Manitoga was the product of his lifelong commitment to the integration of art and nature. “He wanted to live in harmony with nature rather than dominate it or erase it. This is common practice now, but in the  1940s and ’50s it was rather radical,” says Carol Franklin, a principal of Philadelphia landscape design firm Andropogon Associates and a frequent visitor to Manitoga from the ’50s through the ’70s as Wright’s cousin and friend.
       
       

    • While the loss of many of Wright’s artful passages may seem tragic, Franklin points out that Wright embraced the dynamism and surprises of nature. “Russel knew nature was never finished,” she says. “One of the last great events of his life was a hurricane that downed tremendous trees. He rerouted paths and brought attention to the fallen pines. He loved it — scraping away without bulldozing.” One has to wonder what he, as both an artist and ecologist, would have done about the landscape now. To Franklin, it’s clear: “He would have accepted it, and used his imagination to turn the hemlock disaster into a theatrical event.” 

 

Filed Under: Design philosophy, East Coast, GARDEN LARGE, Gardens, Hudson Valley Attractions, Naturalistic, Northeast, Public Gardens Tagged With: design, Manitoga, naturalistic landscape design, naturalistic landscape designer, Russel Wright

Cross-pollinated Connecticut Chestnut Comeback

December 12, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Forest management efforts in Connecticut paying off as American chestnut tree makes a comeback | The Republic

  • via Ct Environmental Headlines

    • Scientists have been working on restoration since the 1930s, and in the last several years, American chestnut specialist Sandy Anagnostakis has been breeding blight-resistant trees by crossing the American species with its Chinese cousin, which carries a resistant gene.

       

      Some 200 of those blight-resistant seedlings were planted on 2.5 acres at Belding in 2009, and while mortality is eventually expected to reach 50 percent due to die-off from natural competition, Seymour said the vast majority of the trees are thriving.

    • Eventually, the native trees will reach maturity and begin cross-pollinating with the newly planted blight-resistant strain, creating seedlings genetically similar to trees native to the site that also carry genes resistant to blight.

Filed Under: Connecticut, endangered species, Enlightening, Environment, Forest management, Native Plants, Northeast, Public Lands, Wildlife Tagged With: Connecticut, Environment, Native Plants, Nature, Public land, Sustainabilty, Wildlife

New England Moves to Preserve a More Recent Heritage

December 6, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • New England Moves to Preserve a More Recent Heritage – NYTimes.com

    • While their creations might seem out of place here, they match the ideals of Thoreau, said Alexander Gorlin, an architect whose book with the photographer Geoffrey Gross, “Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism,” came out this year.

      Mr. Gorlin said the plain, functional style of modernism, meant to blend into the landscape, echoed Thoreau’s desire to live simply and in harmony with nature. Gropius, he added, was inspired by another early New England thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Is either contemporary or traditional architecture inherently more suitable for rural landscape?

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Filed Under: Architecture, Cultural properties, Design philosophy, Enlightening, Nature, Northeast, The New York Times Tagged With: architecture, Book, functional, Gropius, modernism, Nature, Principles, The New York Times, Thoreau

“Peacefulness and oldness…” | A poignant profile of the adirondacks | NYTimes.com

December 2, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Fearing Climate Change’s Effects on the Adirondacks – NYTimes.com

  • By LISA W. FODERARO
  • A full moon rising over Osgood Pond near Paul Smiths, N.Y. More Photos »
    • Mr. Jenkins, who is the author of the book “Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability,” spends much of his time on the water and in the woods, documenting the ecosystem with a notebook and a camera. He thus brings an unusual perspective to the scene. Where a casual observer might behold diversity and continuity, he projects decades into the future and finds absence and loss.

Filed Under: Climate Change, East Coast, Enlightening, Environment, Northeast, Public Lands, Sustainability, The New York Times, Wildlife Tagged With: Adirondacks, climate change, Environment, landscape photography, naturalistic landscape design, Nature, Public land, Sustainabilty, The New York Times, wild, Wildlife

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Oct. 8

September 20, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Garden Large

    • 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

      2011 Open Day
      Saturday, October 8, from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine
      Pawling, NY

Filed Under: Brine Garden, Duncan Brine, Dutchess, Fall, Garden Conservancy, Landscape Designer, Large gardens, Native Plants, Naturalistic, Northeast, Pawling NY, Private Gardens, Structured Naturalism Tagged With: Brine Garden, Duncan Brine, Garden Conservancy Open Day, Hudson Valley, Landscape design, Native Plants, naturalistic landscape design, Pawling NY

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