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GardenLarge Timeline, Since 1984

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Duncan and Kyle Brine, John K. Hutchens1984

GardenLarge started in Brooklyn, NY.

1990

Brine Garden started in Pawling, NY.

1991

Kyle Brine in the Brine Garden with his father, Duncan Brine, and Duncan’s stepfather, John K. Hutchens.

The Literary Garden, introduction by Duncan Brine2002

The Literary Garden, Penguin-Putnam, introduction by Duncan Brine….

NYC exhibit of the Brine Garden and Sylvester Manor of The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, by Mac Griswold. Exhibit images by Michael Dodge and Everett H. Scott.

2003

The Brine Garden selected for the New York Botanical Garden, “Creativity Tour”.

CRW_27162005

Many Splendid Things, Passport Magazine, Litchfield County Times, by Tovah Martin, photographer: Laurie Gaboardi.

2006

New England Wild Flower Society seminar at the Brine Garden….

Garden Conservancy Open Day at the Brine Garden…. Connecticut Horticultural Society talk by Duncan Brine, West Hartford, CT.

2007

A Purposeful Confusion, Best of the Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Magazine, by Lynn Hazlewood, photographer: Philip Jensen-Carter….

Duncan Brine, naturalistic landscape design seminar, the New York Botanical Garden….

Butterfly in the Brine Garden

Duncan and Julia Brine, the Brine Garden, Vistas and Close-ups, Staged by a Filmmaker,The New York Times, by Anne Raver, photographer: John Lei.

2008

GardenLarge, The Big Idea, Horticulture, by Carleen Madigan, photographer: Stacy Bass….

Designer Plant Combinations by Scott CalhounDuncan Brine, Designer Plant Combinations, Storey Publishing, by Scott Calhoun….

The Large Garden of Duncan Brine, Woodstock Times, by Andrea Barrist Stern….

Duncan Brine, speaker, Hardy Plant Society, Connecticut Chapter, Wethersfield, CT.

Duncan Brine, speaker, Garden Club of America, St. Louis, MO.

American Horticultural Society'sAmerican Gardener2010

American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener, article by Duncan Brine, photographer: Rob Cardillo….

Brine Garden 20th Anniversary, Doug and Cindy Tallamy visit the Brine Garden (Bringing Nature Home and The Living Landscape)….

Duncan Brine, speaker, Berkshire Botanic Garden, Stockbridge, MA….

The Brine Garden, a chapter of Gardens of the Hudson Valley, Monacelli Press, by Susan Daley and Steve Gross, photographers, text: Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry ….

50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants2011

The Brine Garden on the cover of 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants, Timber Press, by Ruth Rogers Clausen, photographer: Alan L. Detrick.

2012

Duncan Brine, speaker, Naturalistic Whole Property Design, Peconic Land Trust’s Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, NY.

2013

Duncan Brine, speaker, symposium with Rick Darke and others, SALT Conference, Connecticut College….

Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley by Jane GarmeyNative Drama, the Brine Garden’s chapter of Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley, Monacelli Press, by Jane Garmey, photographer: John M Hall….

Duncan Brine, speaker, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY.

2014

Duncan Brine, speaker, judge with Julie Moir Messervey and others, Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Seattle, WA….

Duncan Brine, interviewer, NY Times garden writer, Anne Raver, Mad Gardeners’ Symposium, Falls Village, CT.

“The Nonstop Garden”, “Gardens of the Hudson Valley”, and “Designer Plant Combinations”

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Nonstop Hudson Valley Designer:

Horticultural Design, Inc. and the Brine Garden

Bound in Books

The Nonstop Garden

The Nonstop Garden

by Stephanie Cohen and Jennifer Benner
includes one of our gardens
Timber Press
Pub. date May 2010

Stephanie, aka the Perennial Diva, is an award-winning author, speaker, and the former director of the Landscape Arboretum at Temple University in Ambler, PA. Jennifer is a writer, photographer, and horticulture consultant, and a former editor at Fine Gardening magazine.

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Photographs by Sue Daley and Steve Gross
Text by Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry
features the Brine Garden.
Monacelli Press
Pub. date October 2010

Steve and Sue are photographers who specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle. Nancy and Susan are the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton.

Designer Plant Combinations Cover

Designer Plant Combinations

by Scott Calhoun
features ten pages of images and plant combinations from the Brine Garden.
Storey Publishing
Published 2008

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

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“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden

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“Eden Reconsidered”
 A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden
 by Marilyn Bethany

At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption.  A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always with an eye to the big picture.  His garden has no apparent edges: it flows, not so much from “room-to-room,” as we’ve been taught a garden should, but from atmospheric eco-system to eco-system. If this is theatre, it is in the round, not trapped inside a proscenium arch.  At every turn, there’s a surprise, yet, in the end, it all seems inevitable, as if Brine got permission to bend nature to his whim.

All good gardens are instructive.  This one?  It will blow your mind.


 

Juicy New Book: Scott Calhoun’s Designer Plant Combinations

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  • Hot Off the Press: Designer Plant Combinations

    • Awarded, accomplished, and colorful author,  Scott Calhoun traveled the country searching for the freshest, most exciting plant groupings. He visited the gardens of top designers from coast to coast and chose more than 100 combinations to include in his photographic celebration. Riots of complementary colors, masses of grasses, foliage spectacles in extraordinary shades of green and purple, and height variations as arresting as city skylines are all featured in these exciting gardens, each one an intimate self-contained glimpse of a larger garden.

    • There are ten pages of images and text on the Brine Garden in this far-ranging, stimulating, and inspirational book.