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Piet Oudolf: Where Ecology Meets Design

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  • Piet Oudolf Where Ecology Meets Design | Ecology Global Network

  • by Fran Sorin

    • Over the last decade, Piet Oudolf has become a ‘superstar’  in the gardening world. But few people have knowledge of the man who creates magnificent works of art. I was compelled to set up an interview with him exactly for that reason. I wanted to better understand his process, priorities, vision, response to his completed designs….in other words, Piet’s ‘gestalt’.
    • Piet might like this autumnal detail in the Brine Garden.

Visit the Brine Garden with ArtEast Open Studio Tour

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The Brine Garden is celebrating its 21st anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors. ArtEast Open Studio Tour visitors are welcome to enjoy the exhibit and stroll through the 6-acre garden.

With his original digital Canon Rebel, landscape designer Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.”

The Brine Garden Entry gate, Pawling, NY © gardenlarge.com

Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts botanical and natural subjects in watercolor and pencil.

Native Euonymus atropurpureus © Julia Brine

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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

Registration

The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Oct. 8

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  • The Garden Conservancy’s Open Day at the Brine Garden | Garden Large

    • The Garden Conservancy opens the gates of America‘s finest private gardens by inviting the public to visit. The Conservancy’s Open Days Program encourages appreciation of “gardens as living works of art.”

       

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      The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine

      2011 Open Day
      Saturday, October 8, from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine
      Pawling, NY

Raver’s Way– Wild – NYTimes.com

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  • In Philadelphia, a Garden Grows Wild – NYTimes.com

    • Ms. Ruddick decided to embrace the philosophy embodied in a line she remembered from an old New Yorker: “Don’t just do something. Stand there!”

    • She worked for years in India, she said, where people stop for the rituals that mark the passages of life.

      “How many times has somebody gotten married, and you just can’t go because of too much work or something?” she asked. “They don’t miss these things. The whole place stops. I feel like we just don’t stop enough.”

      What a radical thought: just standing there, in the gardens, and in our lives, too.