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Stimulating views of the Brine Garden from Ohio, Cape Cod, New Jersey, and Brooklyn

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

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

May 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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

 

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Tags: Art · Books · Brine Garden · Drama · Garden Conservancy · Hudson Valley Attractions · Large gardens · Pawling NY

Snail Mounts: New, Old, Small and Large

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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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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Around the World Discovery of Native Virtues

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide – Annotated

Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens

Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting [...]

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NY Public Gardens Die in Spring: First Gifford Garden, Now The Mount: What’s Next?

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Rural Intelligence | The Online News Source for Dutchess County & Columbia County, New York – Litchfield County, Connecticut – Berkshire County, Massachusetts | Reality Check: Commonweal Annotated

Info on Gifford Garden in Millbrook, NY here
Re The Mount:
more than 100 people attended a public forum on the future of The Mount, the Edith Wharton Estate [...]

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