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The New York Botanical Garden Seminar with Duncan Brine

February 15, 2011 by Julia Brine 1 Comment

Site Character:
An Approach to Creative Design

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 25, 2011 from 10 am -12 pm.

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If you’re able to get to this class, consider following it with lunch on Arthur Ave. or a stroll through the garden (weather permitting).

The Brine Garden is a chapter of “Gardens of the Hudson Valley”

December 3, 2010 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

“The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.”

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Legendary American landscape design figures—Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, and Fletcher Steele—all worked in the Hudson Valley.

Gardens of the Hudson Valley celebrates the historic and artistic landscape. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daly specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle. Steve and Sue have selected twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including the fabled estate gardens – Kykuit, Boscobel, and Olana (open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings.

Garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner are the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton. In Gardens of the Hudson Valley they describe each of the gardens, focusing on the history of the site and the strategies for design and plant materials.

Forward by Gregory Long, president of The New York Botanical Garden
Monacelli Press
Publication date: October 19, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-58093-277-6 (1-58093-277-0)

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“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden

May 25, 2009 by Duncan Brine 1 Comment

“Eden Reconsidered”
A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden
by Marilyn Bethany

At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption. A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always with an eye to the big picture. His garden has no apparent edges: it flows, not so much from “room-to-room,” as we’ve been taught a garden should, but from atmospheric eco-system to eco-system. If this is theatre, it is in the round, not trapped inside a proscenium arch. At every turn, there’s a surprise, yet, in the end, it all seems inevitable, as if Brine got permission to bend nature to his whim.

All good gardens are instructive. This one? It will blow your mind.

Exemplary Biodiversity Habitat Mapping in Dutchess County, NY by Hudsonia

May 6, 2009 by Duncan Brine 2 Comments

Erik Kiviat’s Hudsonia is an important resource for environmental research and education in the Hudson Valley.

Get an eyeful of his perspective here.

http://www.townofdover.us/HudsoniaPresentation.pdf

New Native Plant Garden for the NY Botanical Garden 2008

May 29, 2008 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

Levy Foundation gives $15 million for new native plant garden | lohud.com | The Journal News
- By Bill Cary
  The Journal News • May 25, 2008
- The Leon Levy Foundation is giving $15 million to The New York Botanical Garden to create a 3.5-acre Native Plant Garden.
  
  The garden, which will sit adjacent to the Rock Garden and the large native forest in the heart of the Bronx public garden, will serve as a horticultural center for the study and display of plants native to the Northeast. It will also allow visitors to see first-hand the role that native plants and ecosystems play in supporting birds and other wildlife.
  
  Shelby White, who lives in Lewisboro, was instrumental in directing the money to the Botanical Garden in honor of her late husband, Leon Levy. White is founding director of the Leon Levy Foundation and vice chair of the board of directors of the Botanical Garden. In 2004, the foundation helped create the Leon Levy Visitor Center as the main entrance for the garden.
- The new garden will be one of the first projects in the Botanical Garden’s new master plan for its 250-acre site, which includes 50 gardens, plant collections and displays, as well as a 50-acre old-growth forest with some of the oldest trees in the city. Over the next several years, the garden plans to invest more than $100 million in restoration and restoration projects.
  
  For more information on The New York Botanical Garden, visit www.nybg.org or call 718-817-8700.
  
  Reach Bill Cary at wcary@lohud.com or 914-696-8554.