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Duncan Brine’s Naturalistic Landscape Design Seminar at the New York Botanical Garden

February 9, 2016 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

Naturalistic Landscape Design

Annually, GardenLarge principal landscape designer, Duncan Brine, leads a popular seminar at the New York Botanical Garden.

A naturalistic garden connects to the existing conditions of its site. Discover a landscape design method that elicits responses from the site rather than imitating a conventional style or structure. Topics include connecting spaces, the relationship between background and foreground, transparency, and framing views. The instructor illustrates his talk with images of his six-acre naturalistic garden.

Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

Instructor: Duncan Brine

Registration

Consider following the class with a stroll through the garden.


Filed Under: Classes/Tours, Design philosophy, Duncan Brine, GARDEN LARGE, GardenLarge, Landscape Design Firms, Landscape Designers, Naturalistic, Speakers, Structured Naturalism Tagged With: Class, Duncan Brine, naturalistic landscape design, New York Botanical Garden, NYBG, Seminar, talks

Botanic Gardens and Human Survival?

March 31, 2015 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

Duncan and I recently attended the New England Wild Flower Society’s gala Founder’s Dinner, honoring Dr. Paul Smith, Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Dr. Paul Smith

Dr. Smith was awarded their 2015 Founder’s Medal for his exceptional achievements as Head of the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His compelling talk was about plant diversity and human survival. Dr. Smith highlighted the role botanical gardens play internationally in preserving seed for the future.

NEWFS logo 2015

Filed Under: Arboretums, Brine Garden, Climate Change, endangered species, Environment, GARDEN LARGE, Gardens, Nature, NEWFS, Plants, Private Gardens, Public Gardens, Public Lands, Speakers, World Tagged With: BCGI, Botanical Garden Conservation International, Dr. Paul Smith, human survival, New England Wild Flower Society, NEWFS, plant diversity

Northwest Flower & Garden Show – Duncan Brine judge and speaker, along with Julie Moir Messervy and Douglas Justice

January 29, 2014 by Julia Brine


Duncan Brine joins Julie Moir Messervy and Douglas Justice as a judge and lecturer for the 2014 Northwest Flower & Garden Show, in Seattle, Washington. Former judges include James van Sweden, Wolfgang Oehme, Piet Oudolf, Laurie Olin, Panyoti Kelaidis, and Michael Pollan.

On Wednesday, February 2 at 1:30 pm Duncan Brine will present “Naturalistic Landscape Design: Breaking Rules on Principle”.

Julie Moir Messervy is the principal of Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio in Saxtons River, VT. In 1999 she completed the award-winning Toronto Music Garden, collaborating with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the City of Toronto, to create a three-acre public park based on music by J.S. Bach. Messervy’s award-winning books include Home Outside, Outside the Not So Big House, and Contemplative Gardens. Messervy is the recipient of many awards, including the APLD 2006 Award of Distinction.

Seattle, Washington skyline

Along with duties as the Associate Director and Curator of Collections at UBC Botanical Garden, Douglas Justice teaches in both the Applied Biology and Masters of Landscape Architecture programs at UBC and is involved with public and industry extension. A former nursery manager, gardener and horticulture instructor, Douglas holds a Bachelor’s degree in horticulture and a Master’s in botany. He is an active member of a number of local, national and international plant and garden organizations and is currently writing a book on trees for the Vancouver area.

Since 1989 gardening enthusiasts have been flocking to this annual celebration which includes an acre of Show Gardens created by the most respected garden designers and landscapers of the region and a marketplace with over 300 exhibitors. The show is also renowned for offering the largest roster of free horticulture seminars of any garden show in the world.

February 5-9, 2014

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March 1: NY Times Garden Writer, Anne Raver, in Conversation with GardenLarge Principal Landscape Designer, Duncan Brine

January 29, 2014 by Julia Brine 1 Comment


A Life of Stories: In the Garden and On the Land

Seven years ago, Anne Raver interviewed Duncan Brine for her New York Times piece, “Vistas and Close-Ups, Staged by a Filmmaker” featuring his Hudson Valley garden. Since Anne’s discovery, the Brine Garden has been the subject of several books and magazines.

On March 1, as part of a symposium, Anne takes the hot seat as Duncan interviews her about her many years covering the garden “writ large”.  Anne will share her garden writer’s world with an audience of avid homeowners and professional gardeners and designers.  From her early years as a storyteller at the farm dinner table in Maryland to honing her skills under deadline at Newsday and The New York Times Anne talks gardens and gardeners, including: how she selects her subjects, reports and writes the story, but also how she presents the personal stories of the gardeners she has met that illustrate issues in horticulture past, present, and future. Anne’s garden writing approach is personal and so will be Duncan and Anne’s conversation at the symposium.

Anne Raver has written about gardening and the environment for almost 30 years.  As an award-winning columnist and feature writer for Newsday in the 1980s, and later the New York Times, she has explored the meaning of gardens from river farmers in the Amazon to urban pioneers of New York City.  She has kept a loyal following informed and inspired about the environment, from the effects of pesticides to the vagaries of climate change, often using her own gardens at her Maryland farm as the starting point.  A storyteller at heart, her love of travel, fueled by her curiosity, has taken her to little known people and places throughout the United States, South America, and England – to bring their stories to life on the page.  Anne has a master’s degree in creative writing and is a former Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, but her greatest teachers have been the gardeners and farmers who have told her their stories.  She is the author of Deep in the Green, a collection of her columns, published by Knopf, 1995.

Brine Garden Miscanthus Bed by John M. Hall

© John M. Hall

The Brine Garden is featured in its own chapter in the new book, Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley published by Monacelli Press.

 

At the upcoming symposium, Duncan and Anne will delve into various aspects of horticulture which have received Anne’s attention and journalistic treatment over the years. Duncan is a principal at GardenLarge, a landscape design and installation firm. He teaches naturalistic landscape design at the New York Botanical Gar­den; his method of “structured naturalism,” involves native plants and existing conditions. In the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine, Duncan wrote, “A naturalistic garden has a dual focus, like horticulture itself—it’s balanced between art and science.”

Brine Garden Birch Grove by John M. Hall

© John M. Hall

A grove of Betula nigra ‘Heritage’ in the Brine Garden, Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley, published by Monacelli Press.

 

Also presenting at the symposium are Ed Bowen and Dawn Pettinelli.

In his talk, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, specialty nursery owner, Ed Bowen, will discuss mass-market plant selection criteria and the limitations the process imposes on gardeners and growers.

Dawn Pettinelli, an educator at the University of Connecticut, presents Soil Sense: Let’s Stop Treating Our Soils Like Dirt – Our Lives Depend Upon It! Dawn will demonstrate various threats to healthy soil and helps gardeners respect and protect one of their most valuable assets.

The Mad Gardeners’ Symposium, titled Keeping Grounded: Life in the Garden, will take place at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Falls Village, CT, on Saturday, March 1, from 9am to 3pm. (Snow Date: Sunday, March 2)

Registration:

Pre-registration by February 26 includes lunch.

Registration: $80.

Make checks payable to: Mad Gardeners

Mail to:
Sharon Tingley, Registrar
Mad Gardeners
30 Fairchild Road
Sharon, CT 06069

To register after February 26: call 860-355-1547 or email: knelson151@sbcglobal.net

For symposium details and to download the event brochure go to  www.madgardeners.org.

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Filed Under: Anne Raver, Duncan Brine, GARDEN LARGE, Home Page, Landscape Designers, Speakers, The New York Times Tagged With: Anne Raver, Duncan Brine, Landscape design, Nature, The New York Times

Brine Garden and GardenLarge Events

December 8, 2013 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment


New Book, Talks, and Interviews:

 

Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley
featuring the Brine Garden.
Writer: Jane Garmey; photographer: John Hall
2013

Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley is
one of five books recently selected and featured
in the New York Times.

“Gardening Today” in the New York Times

 

Northwest Flower & Garden Show logo

Northwest Flower & Garden Show,
Seattle, Washington

Duncan Brine speaker and judge.
Open to the public.
February 5-9, 2014.

 

New York Botanical Garden NYBG logo

New York Botanical Garden
Naturalistic Landscape Design
: a seminar with Duncan Brine.
Registration.
February 26, 2014.

Mad Gardeners' Drawing

Mad Gardeners Symposium
Changing Places:
Anne Raver Interviewed by Duncan Brine
Falls Village, CT
Registration
March 1, 2014

 

Garden clubs, horticultural societies, and botanical gardens visit GardenLarge’s Brine Garden by special arrangement. Over the years, we’ve enjoyed hosting the New York Botanical Garden, the New England Wild Flower Society, Hortus, and various garden clubs.

Tour the garden with GardenLarge’s principal landscape designers, Duncan and Julia Brine. Receive plant lists of species indigenous to Dutchess County, NY, and other natives.

Share the garden with us– schedule a tour for your group.

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