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Essential Perennials

April 8, 2015 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

We’re excited about our friends’ invaluable new book, Essential Perennials.

Essential Perennials

“ The long-awaited update of a classic guide to perennials!”

—P. Allen Smith, award-winning gardening expert, author, and TV host

 

“ Finally, a guide to navigating the staggering possibilities among perennials.”

—Margaret Roach, awaytogarden.com

 

Perennials are the mainstay of any garden. But how do you choose from the thousands available, and care for the ones you already have? Essential Perennials is the complete reference for any gardener looking to make smart plant choices for a garden that blooms for years to come.

Trusted experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher help you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and thrive in the conditions you can provide. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.

Essential Perennials: The Complete Reference
to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden
By Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher
Photographs by Alan L. Detrick & Linda Detrick
ISBN: 9781604693164

Filed Under: Books, GARDEN LARGE, Images, Landscape Inspiration, Plants Tagged With: Book, favorite, Gardeners, Perennials, Ruth Rogers Clausen, Timber Press, Tom Christopher

GardenLarge: on the Front Page in the Hamptons

March 20, 2012 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

    • Advice Offered On Creating A Naturalistic Landscape Design – 27east

      Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press

      By Anne Halpin

      Gardeners interested in a more natural look for their landscapes were treated to an inspiring and insightful talk on Sunday afternoon at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton by Duncan and Julia Brine.

      The Long Bridge at the Brine Garden © gardenlarge.com

      The principal designer and his wife and partner in the Pawling, New York-based Garden Large, a naturalistic landscape design firm…

      Their talk focused on the process of making a naturalistic garden personal and unique to each site…

      The first step in the process involves acquiring a sense of the region and the characteristics of your particular property, what Mr. Brine calls “the givens.”

      Mr. Brine used his own family’s property in Dutchess County to illustrate the design process…

      For Mr. Brine, naturalistic landscape design responds to the native plants already in place. The landscape is understood as an environment, the plantings part of a whole—a bigger picture than a traditional garden bed or border…

      For the Brines, the goal of a naturalistic garden is to, in Mr. Brine’s words, “idealize and partner with nature’s potential in a place.”

      A large garden such as theirs can replicate the different ecosystems of slopes, and wet lowlands, the plantings visually integrating with views of their neighbor’s property and the distant ridgelines. On a small property, a naturalistic garden can’t invoke an entire ecosystem, but it can serve as a fragment of nature, a quotation of a natural environment.

      The naturalistic garden…can offer a refuge and respite for the senses. And because the plants are chosen to suit the givens, the garden will look like it belongs there, and the plants will thrive. It’s a low-maintenance, resource-conservative place that can nourish the gardener’s soul as it helps nature along…

      These are excerpts, for the full article, go to http://www.27east.com/

Filed Under: Bridge Gardens, Brine Garden, Duncan Brine, East Coast, Gardens, Hamptons, Speakers, US Tagged With: Brine Garden, Duncan Brine, Environment, favorite, Julia Brine, Landscape design, landscape photography, Native Plants, naturalistic landscape design, Nature, Pawling NY, Principles, Public Gardens, speaker, Sustainabilty, The American Gardener

Duncan Brine aka Garden Large | New York Botanical Garden Seminar

February 6, 2012 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • 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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Filed Under: Brine Garden, Classes/Tours, Design philosophy, Design Technique, Duncan Brine, Environment, Images, Landscape Inspiration, Native Plants, Naturalistic, Nature, New York NY, Private Gardens, Structured Naturalism, Tallamy Tagged With: Brine Garden, Duncan Brine, Environment, favorite, Landscape design, landscape photography, Native Plants, naturalistic landscape design, Nature, New York Botanical Garden, Principles, Private Gardens, talks

The Environment as a Moral Issue

December 18, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Exploring Humanity’s Place In the Journey of the Universe by : Yale Environment 360

    • …There’s starting to be a sense now that  there’s a moral issue about degradation of the environment, that there is something here that’s larger than us, something that’s given birth to all life forms and sustains us. And if we degrade that, it’s to the degradation of future generations. So there’s an inter-generational ethic here. And there’s a new emerging ethic of responsibility to people in other parts of the world who are suffering from our actions with things like climate change, which is affecting people along coastal waters.So where is the moral force going to come from for inter-generational ethics or ethical responsibility for people in other parts of the world? It’s going to come from longer-range thinking, and that’s what the religions can contribute.

    • YALE e360

Filed Under: Climate Change, Enlightening, Environment, Nature, Sustainability, Video, World, Yale Environment 360 Tagged With: climate change, Environment, favorite, Morality, Principles, Religion, Sustainabilty, video, Wildlife

Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting

December 7, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting by Don Hong-Oai | Retronaut

    Here, photography jumps into, and, dreamily, clarifies traditional Chinese painting. The effect is startling and unique; the images create a median between a far-off reality and a composed ideal.

  • This series of images was brought to my attention by a college friend now living in the northwest.
  • Brine Garden dreaming of Chinese painting

Filed Under: Art, Asia, Birds, Images, Landscape Inspiration, My editorial comment, Naturalistic, Nature, Parks, Private Gardens, Water, Wildlife Tagged With: Asia, Chinese painting, favorite, Landscape, landscape photography, naturalistic landscape design, Nature, Principles, Private Gardens, Wildlife

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