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New York City: A Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? Rich in Nature?

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  • How Did New York City Become a Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? — New York Magazine – Annotated

     

    • Incredibly, scientists are starting to view New York as an ecological hot spot—more diverse and richer in nature than the suburbs and rural counties that surround it.

       

    • “People think of the rural as this pristine, untouched place, when it’s actually highly controlled and highly engineered space,” says Nette Compton, a senior project manager at the Parks Department. “The fact is urban areas are not as well controlled. They are messy. There is diversity.”

       

 

New Book: Gardens of the Hudson Valley – features the Brine Garden

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Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Photographs: Sue Daley and Steve Gross
Text: Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry
Forward: Gregory Long,
President of The New York Botanical Garden

Monacelli Press, a division of Random House
Publication date: October 19, 2010

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Soon to be published, Gardens of the Hudson Valley features the Brine Garden  among “twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous estate gardens like Kykuit, Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, and Olana (all open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings”.

Steve Gross and Sue Daley are photographers who specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle.

Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry have teamed up before as the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton.

The Monacelli Press  is a leading publisher of books on architecture, the fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, and graphic design. The Press is known for studies of historic and contemporary artists and architects; for perceptive photodocumentation of places and events; for exceptional volumes on traditional and contemporary interior design; for energetic collections of graphic and product design.


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Our Natives & Insects Man, Douglas Tallamy, Speaks in Cambridge

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http://grownativecambridge.org/programs/annualceleb
Tallamy may use images of the Brine Garden in his talk.

Tallamy’s book, “Bringing Nature Home” is fast becoming a classic for our times; it’s the best present you could give yourself or anyone else.

Sydney Eddison:Gardening for a Lifetime:How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older

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Brine Garden Talks, Books, Seminar, etc.

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Duncan Brine
Principal Landscape Designer
Horticultural Design, Inc.
speaks on
Living in Nature
at the Berkshire Botanical Garden
 Saturday, January 30

For more on this talk go to gardenlarge.com.

 

The New York Botanical Garden
presents a seminar
Site Character: An Approach to Creative Design
with
Duncan Brine
Wednesday, February 17, 10am – 12pm

For more on this seminar go to gardenlarge.com.

Connecticut Horticultural Society
presents
Duncan Brine
Structuring Nature: Whole Property Design

Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm

For more on this talk go to gardenlarge.com.

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Upcoming book from the Monacelli Press,
a division of Random House,

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

by Steve Gross and Sue Daley
features the Brine Garden.

Publication date fall 2010

New book from Timber Press
by Jennifer Benner and Stephanie Cohen
features the Brine Garden.

Publication date 2010

Storey Publishing’s
Designer Plant Combinations (Published 2008)
by Scott Calhoun
features ten pages of images and plant combinations
from the Brine Garden.

Scott is a recipient of the highest awards from
the American Horticultural Society and
the Garden Writers Association of America.

His blog: Scott Calhoun’s Desert


Inspired Calligraphy, The Brine Garden © Scott Calhoun 

 

‘The example titled Inspired Calligraphy (Brine Garden, pg 202) features
‘Nana’ dwarf purple willow, ‘Autumn Spire’ maple and “Tardiva’ hydrangea.
Scott poetically describes the effect of the maple’s foliage: “Creeping into the vignette,
the ‘Autumn Spire’ provides a dash of red, like a confident brushstroke
in black and red Japanese calligraphy.” ‘


— Billy Goodnick, Fine Gardening Blog

Win a copy of Designer Plant Combinations from Fine Gardening.


 

Read “Eden Reconsidered“

An Appreciation of the Brine Garden

by Marilyn Bethany

Join Duncan. He’s @gardenlarge
on Twitter.

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Naturalistic Landscape Design
Horticultural Design, Inc., Duncan Brine and the Brine Garden
hortdesign@gardenlarge.com  (845) 855-9023

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