Gardens of the Hudson Valley
Photographs: Sue Daley and Steve Gross
Text: Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry
Forward: Gregory Long,
President of The New York Botanical Garden
Monacelli Press, a division of Random House
Publication date: October 19, 2010
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Soon to be published, Gardens of the Hudson Valley features the Brine Garden  among “twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous [...]

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The large scale farm ditches shown here might successfully influence the design of smaller scale ditches.
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/howwework/art30290.html

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Miss Rumphias, aka Susan Cohan, Visits the Brine Garden
Trifecta at the Twitter Track
by Susan Cohan

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“Duncan Brine aka @gardenlarge, who with his wife Julia, has a wonderful and totally unique garden in Pawling, NY. He graciously invited me to visit on my way to the TweetUp. I knew in advance I [...]

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

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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for [...]

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