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The Brine Garden - Duncan & Julia Brine
2009 Open Day
To Be Announced
21 Bluebird Inn Road, Pawling, NY
This naturalistic six-acre garden and arboretum has been underway since 1990. Two 1920s farmhouses establish an old-fashioned ambiance. They sit on a cliff over a marsh and glade and enjoy long vistas of distant ridges. Gravel pathways and native plants from the owner’s nursery connect horticulturally diverse areas. Naturalistic and garden areas blend. Dramatic, large-leaved, and floriferous perennials accompany an allée of Taxodium, groupings of Acer triflorum, Betula nigra, Parrotia, and Miscanthus giganteus. A map and a native and indigenous plant list are provided.
Recently, Anne Raver of The New York Times and Carleen Madigan Perkins of Horticulture profiled the garden.
Handicapped Accessibility: no
Native and Indigenous Plants at the Brine Garden
