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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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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/

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Join us in the Hamptons this weekend?

March 16, 2012 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

Hudson Valley’s Duncan Brine, aka Garden Large,
Speaks in the Hamptons on Sunday, March 18 at 1pm

The Peconic Land Trust announces its third annual lecture series at Bridge Gardens, in Bridgehampton, NY. On March 18 at 1:00pm, Duncan Brine, principal of Garden Large, presents his naturalistic landscape design process, expanding on his recent article in “American Gardener” magazine.

“A naturalistic garden combines a gardener’s needs and desires with nature’s dictates; its design cannot be premeditated because its inherent beauty is inextricably linked to the landscape on which it is created.”

Mr. Brine is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the New England Wild Flower Society. Garden Large specializes in native plants and whole property gardens. Visit www.gardenlarge.com, for more about Garden Large, Duncan Brine, and the Brine Garden.

Long Bridge at the Brine Garden, Pawling, NY© gardenlarge.com
The Long Bridge at the Brine Garden, Pawling, NY 

Scott Medbury, president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Vincent Simeone, director of Planting Fields Arboretum, and others, are also featured in the speaker series. Reservations are required and the fee is $15 per person. Refreshments will be served following each program.

For reservations and additional dates and details on the speaker series, go to Bridge Gardens on www.PeconicLandTrust.org.

The Peconic Land Trust

The Peconic Land Trust was established in 1983 to conserve Long Island’s working farms and natural lands.  The nonprofit Trust has worked in concert with landowners, local government, partner organizations, and communities to conserve over 10,000 acres in NY, on Long Island. The Trust’s professional staff carries out the necessary research and planning to identify and implement alternatives to development. While working to conserve the productive farms, watersheds, woodlands, and beach front of Long Island, the Trust is also protecting the unique rural heritage and natural resources of the region. The Trust has Stewardship Centers in Southold, Cutchogue, Bridgehampton and Amagansett and its Main Office is in Southampton, NY. The public is invited to enjoy a wide variety of fun and educational activities through the Trust’s “Connections” programs which strive to connect people to the natural lands of Long Island’s East End.

Bridge Gardens

Bridge Gardens was established in 1988 by Harry Neyens and Jim Kilpatric, who designed and installed the gardens over the ensuing 10 years. In 1997, Bridge Gardens Trust was created as a charitable corporation to maintain and preserve the gardens. In 2008, Neyens and Kilpatric donated Bridge Gardens to the Peconic Land Trust. Rick Bogusch, a landscape architect with a long career at Cornell Plantations in Ithaca, NY,  is the garden manager.

Bridge Gardens covers over five acres and consists of an Inner Garden and an Outer Garden. Developed first, the Inner Garden features a large, meticulously-trimmed knot garden surrounded by beds of 180 different culinary, medicinal, ornamental, and textile and dyeing herbs. Overlooking these plantings, the garden house is the manager’s residence/education center. In the Outer Garden, the favorite attraction is a collection of antique and modern roses. Bridge Gardens also contains animal topiaries, a lavender parterre, perennial beds and borders, a water garden, woodland paths, a hidden bamboo room, double hedgerows of privet with viewing ports, and specimen shrubs and trees.

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Duncan Brine to present at Peconic Land Trusts’ Lecture Series – Bridgehampton, NY

February 22, 2012 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Peconic Land Trusts Kicks Off Its Third Annual Lecture Series At Bridge Gardens – Bridgehampton, NY – Hamptons.com

    Long Bridge at the Brine Garden, Pawling, NY

    © gardenlarge.com
    • • Sunday, March 18: “Naturalistic Whole Property Design”
      Brine, principal landscape designer of Garden Large, and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden along with the New England Wild Flower Society, will expand upon an article he wrote for the American Horticultural Society’s “American Gardener” while focusing on the six-acre Brine Garden in Pawling, NY.
      Anne Raver featured the garden in the New York Times, and the recent book “Gardens of the Hudson Valley” compares Duncan to Russel Wright of Garrison, NY’s Manitoga.
      Discover how this designer finds inspiration in existing conditions and elicits ideas from the prevailing nature of a place.

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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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