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Duncan and Julia Brine and the Brine Garden

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

Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting

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

A Wonderful Summation — the Complexity of Invasive Species

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  • The invasive species war – The Boston Globe

    • When it comes to what we should actually do for the environment, the two sides of this debate might not be quite as far apart as their denunciations of one another might indicate. Just as most ecologists accept that only a fraction of non-native species are harmful, the anti-nativists, when pressed, will admit that unequivocally destructive species like the Asian longhorned beetle should be reined in., how we justify our interventions and how we label the species we want to eradicate.
    • A Path through Phragmites in the Brine Garden.
    • (Occasionally, making use of adversaries.)

 

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.