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Duncan Brine aka Garden Large | New York Botanical Garden Seminar

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  • Duncan Brine Instructor | New York Botanical Garden Seminar | Garden Large

    • Discover a contextual approach to shaping landscape and garden space. A design method
      is outlined which bases decision-making on the characteristics of the site, not 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 6-acre naturalistic garden.

       

      Instructor: Duncan Brine

       

      Friday, February 24, 2012, 10am – 12pm

       

       

       

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New Landscape Book to Love: Lauded by Louv and Tallamy

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  • UPNE – Integrated Landscaping: Lauren Chase-Rowell

    • “A first-rate model for forward thinking landscapers everywhere. It’s time to bring nature back into our lives, and this book shows us how.”—Richard Louv, author, The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods

      “From initial design to plant choice to installation, this book will guide you in the creation of a beautiful, functional, and enriching landscape, regardless of the size of your property or budget.”—Douglas W. Tallamy, author, Bringing Nature Home

       

      A new way of thinking about landscaping home grounds and public spaces, Revised and Expanded

       

      Most landscape manuals describe a linear sequence of processes: design, plant selection, installation, and ongoing maintenance. Integrated Landscaping is different. It uses natural ecosystems as models, taking a nonlinear, holistic approach that addresses these processes simultaneously. Integrated Landscaping treats each site as a system of plant and animal communities, considering their interrelationships with each other and their environment.

       

      Click here for TABLE OF CONTENTS

    • Brine Garden: Stream in fall

Oct. 1 — “Roaming Seminar”– New England Wild Flower Society in the Brine Garden

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New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden | Garden Large

The New England Wild Flower Society to visit the Brine Garden

The Brine Design:
Landscape and Garden Principles in Practice

Join an on-site seminar at landscape designer Duncan Brine’s own six-acre garden. The Brine Garden – now in its 21st year – resembles a public garden, with multiple areas, each with its own character.

Duncan Brine teaching in the Brine Garden, Miscanthus Bed © gardenlarge

America’s first native plant group, The New England Wild Flower Society of Framingham, Massachusetts is to visit the Brine Garden this fall.

Native plants from Horticultural Design’s nursery help the Brine Garden blend with adjacent naturalistic areas and preserved lands. Anne Raver of The New York Times recently described the garden as a “dream-like landscape.” Author Ruah Donnelly describes The Brine Garden as “a naturalistic display garden of remarkable artistry and diversity.” Prolific garden book author, Tovah Martin, writes that at the Brine Garden, “elements of concealment and surprise are written into the landscape.” This roaming seminar will include a discussion of Duncan Brine’s landscape design process, and respond to your observations and questions.

Leader: Duncan Brine is the Principal of Horticultural Design, Inc., Pawling, NY, as well as an instructor for the New York Botanical Garden.

Fall 2011

Saturday, October 1, from 1pm to 4p

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Garden Large’s Natives Man Tallamy on Favorite Garden Website

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  • Garden Rant: Native vs. invasive once again—it’s Tallamy’s turn

    • I am not a purist and I don’t expect many other people will be either. I think taking the hard line and insisting on all natives will go a long way toward killing the movement.
      —Doug Tallamy, Garden Rant interview, 12/12/07

      Tallamy_d Mild-mannered Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, is still smiling but he’s also a bit exasperated at the backlash he’s noticing against native plant advocacy, the latest example of which was found in a New York Times op-ed entitled Mother Nature’s Melting Pot.

       

       

    • “Most people garden in a very small percentage of their yard and the rest is barren. Have your hobbies, grow what you want, but also put in some of the trees that used to be there to support the birds that you probably still do like. … I’d like to keep the discussion scientific and keep the emotion out of it. Just don’t tell me that these choices have no consequences and that any plant is as good as any other plant.”

       

More information and inspiration on the Brine Garden page

On Naturalistic Design in “The American Gardener” by Duncan Brine

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Inviting Nature into Your Garden

If you’re starting a new garden or contemplating a redesign, consider a naturalistic approach, which has renewed relevance in today’s environment.

Native perennial Eupatorium maculatum 'Gateway'
© 2011 Rob Cardillo

TWENTY YEARS AGO, I left New York City with my future wife to make a garden and a new life in the country, north of the city. There I found inspiration in moving away from the status quo of traditional gardens and toward a career creating naturalistic gardens….

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