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Brine Garden: Gallery & Garden Opening, August 21st

Julia Brine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:59:29 +0000

Pawling’s Gallery on the Green Presents

Bringing Nature Home:Brine Garden 20th Anniversary

The Gallery on the Green introduces its new season with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors by landscape designers, Duncan and Julia Brine. The gallery opening is on August 21 from 4-6pm. Immediately following the reception, the Brine Garden will open for the guests of Gallery on the Green.

The Brine Garden is celebrating its 20^th anniversary and honoring Doug Tallamy’s groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (2009 Timber Press).

With his original digital Canon Rebel, Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.” Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts in watercolor Chionanthus retusus drupes and the indigenous Euonymus atropurpurea’s colorful fall foliage.

Euonymus atropurpurea © Julia Brine

Duncan’s college classmate, Everett H. Scott, makes a special contribution to the show. Everett is the photographer for two classic volumes, Nature Perfected, Gardens through History (1991 Abbeville Press) and Grounds for Change, Major Gardens of the Twentieth Century (1993 Bulfinch Press), as well as, Garden Design and Landscape Architecture magazine.

Duncan Brine, Princeton ‘79, pursued theater and film interests before beginning his work as the principal landscape designer for Horticultural Design, Inc. He’s a landscape design instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.

Julia Brine graduated Harvard in 1977 and then obtained an MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. She studied at the New York Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration program and was recently commissioned to depict the life of Liriodendron tulipifera.

Gallery on the Green represents contemporary artists whose works range from representational to abstract. From painting to drawing, from sculpture to mixed media, it exhibits innovative artists who share a high standard of excellence and artistic judgment and is taking the lead in helping Eastern Dutchess County establish a major presence in the Tri-State arts scene.

The Gallery on the Green is located at 7 Arch Street in Pawling. Hours are Wednesday through Saturdays from noon to 5pm and always by appointment. To arrange an appointment contact Michelle Farnum-Morales at 845.855.5642. For more information on the gallery visit www.gotgpawling.com.

Pawling’s Gallery on the Green Presents

Bringing Nature Home: Brine Garden 20th Anniversary

PAWLING, NY – (July 19, 2010) – Gallery on the Green today introduces its new season with an exhibition of images from Duncan and Julia Brine, renowned landscape designers. The exhibit opens with a reception 4-6 pm on Aug 21 and will run to Sept 18th.

The Brine Garden is celebrating its 20^th anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors honoring Doug Tallamy’s groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (2009 Timber Press). With his original digital Canon Rebel, Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.” Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts in watercolor Chionanthus retusus drupes and the indigenous Euonymus atropurpurea’s colorful fall foliage. Duncan’s college classmate, Everett H. Scott, makes a special contribution to the show. Everett is the photographer for two classic volumes, Nature Perfected, Gardens through History (1991 Abbeville Press) and Grounds for Change, Major Gardens of the Twentieth Century (1993 Bulfinch Press), as well as, Garden Design and Landscape Architecture magazine.

This fall, the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine is slated to feature Duncan Brine’s photographs and article about “a naturalistic garden” and Tallamy’s precepts.

In the New York Times, Anne Raver wrote, “Duncan and Julia Brine’s six-acre garden, a dreamlike landscape…takes its cues from the old shade trees and fence posts remaining from the farm that was once here…Mr. Brine shapes a landscape as a filmmaker would a story, conceiving it as an unfolding narrative…only discovered by moving through space.” The mature plantings of the Brine Garden may beg the question of what was planted or here before. Hudson Valley magazine called it “a purposeful confusion.”

Marilyn Bethany, formerly of New York magazine, wrote about the Brine Garden in www.ruralintelligence.com. “All good gardens are instructive. This one? It will blow your mind.

Immediately following the reception at the gallery, the Brine Garden will open for the guests of Gallery on the Green.

The Brine Garden is part of the Garden Conservancy Open Days program and is also open, by arrangement, to garden clubs and other groups. Please go to www.gardenlarge.com for more about the Brine Garden and Horticultural Design, Inc.

Duncan Brine, Princeton ‘79, pursued theater and film interests before beginning his work as the principal landscape designer for Horticultural Design, Inc

He’s a landscape design instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.

Julia Brine graduated Harvard in 1977 and then pursued an MFA. She studied at the New York Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration program and was recently commissioned to depict the life of Liriodendron tulipifera for Curtis Instruments.

The Gallery on the Green is located at 7 Arch Street in Pawling, 845.855.5642. Hours are Wednesday through Saturdays from noon to 5pm and always by appointment. To arrange an appointment contact Michelle Farnum-Morales at 845.855.5642. For more information visit us at www.gotgpawling.com.

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The American Gardener to feature Duncan Brine’s naturalistic garden

Julia Brine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:02:56 +0000

American Horticultural Society’s

The American Gardener Magazine

Editor: David Ellis
Author: Duncan Brine
Photographers: Rob Cardillo and Duncan Brine

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This fall, the American Horticultural Society’s The American Gardener magazine is slated to feature Duncan Brine’s article and photographs about “a naturalistic garden”.

The article and the Brine Garden’s 20th Anniversary both honor Doug Tallamy’s groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (2009 Timber Press).

Twenty years ago, Duncan Brine found direction in moving away from the status quo of traditional gardens and toward a naturalistic garden’s engaging creative process and philosophy. A naturalistic garden combines a gardener’s needs and desires with nature’s dictates; its inherent beauty follows the suggestion of landscape conditions. It’s not a pre-meditated design forced upon the landscape; rather, a naturalistic garden is itself, and looks like itself, without affect. In his article, Brine discusses naturalistic techniques and pragmatic approaches that help you create your own naturalistic garden.

Among other notable achievements, photographer Rob Cardillo has received a Gold award for best photography from the Garden Writers of America .

The American Gardener is now available both digitally and in print to members of the American Horticultural Society.

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New Book: Gardens of the Hudson Valley – features the Brine Garden

Julia Brine — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:00:08 +0000

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

Soon to be published, Gardens of the Hudson Valley features the Brine Garden among “twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous estate gardens like Kykuit, Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, and Olana (all open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings”.

Steve Gross and Sue Daley are photographers who specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle.

Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry have teamed up before as the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton.

The Monacelli Press is a leading publisher of books on architecture, the fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, and graphic design. The Press is known for studies of historic and contemporary artists and architects; for perceptive photodocumentation of places and events; for exceptional volumes on traditional and contemporary interior design; for energetic collections of graphic and product design.

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The Monacelli Press is a leading publisher of books on architecture, the fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, and graphic design.

“The Nonstop Garden”, “Gardens of the Hudson Valley”, and “Designer Plant Combinations”

Julia Brine — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:51:25 +0000

Nonstop Hudson Valley Designer:

Horticultural Design, Inc. and the Brine Garden

Bound in Books

The Nonstop Garden

by Stephanie Cohen and Jennifer Benner
includes one of our gardens
Timber Press
Pub. date May 2010

Stephanie, aka the Perennial Diva, is an award-winning author, speaker, and the former director of the Landscape Arboretum at Temple University in Ambler, PA. Jennifer is a writer, photographer, and horticulture consultant, and a former editor at Fine Gardening magazine.

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Photographs by Sue Daley and Steve Gross
Text by Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry
features the Brine Garden.
Monacelli Press
Pub. date October 2010

Steve and Sue are photographers who specialize in architecture, interiors, gardens, travel and lifestyle. Nancy and Susan are the authors of Garden Guide: New York City, revised edition, 2010, Norton.

Designer Plant Combinations

by Scott Calhoun
features ten pages of images and plant combinations from the Brine Garden.
Storey Publishing
Published 2008

Scott is a recipient of the highest awards from the American Horticultural Society and the Garden Writers Association of America.
His blog: Scott Calhoun’s Desert

From New York to Boston:
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Horticultural Design, Inc.
hortdesign@gardenlarge.com
(845) 855-9023

Duncan Brine interview in the notable British Blog Thinking Gardens

Duncan Brine — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:54:33 +0000

http://thinkingardens.co.uk/Susan%20Cohan%20Nine%20Questions%202%20Duncan%20Brine.html

Risa’s 10 Garden Trends to Watch in 2010

Duncan Brine — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:55:15 +0000

http://gardenandthegoodlife.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/10-garden-and-landscape-trends-to-watch-in-2010.html

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

Julia Brine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:29:57 +0000

Miss Rumphias, aka Susan Cohan, Visits the Brine Garden

Trifecta at the Twitter Track

by Susan Cohan

“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 would experience something special since …”

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Edible Shrubs at the Brine Garden

by Jennifer Bartley

“Part of the benefit of joining garden organizations is meeting other fellow gardening… shall we say, enthusiasts. I met Duncan Brine at the Garden Writers Association Symposium last year in Portland but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a peek at his fabulous garden in the Hudson Valley…”

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C.L.’s Whole Life Gardening on Gardening Large

Do You Garden Large?

by C.L. Fornari

© gardenlarge.com
“I got a tweet from landscape designer Duncan Brine the other day, commenting that I am on a ‘philosophical roll’ here at Whole Life Gardening.
Duncan’s twitter name is @GardenLarge, and I like his grand approach to gardening. Duncan does garden large. On his website he says ‘Nature is big…I like big plants and big flowers for big spaces. And things in mass, because it gives them a natural feeling.’…”

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The Flatbush Gardener Slideshows the Brine Garden

Brine Garden, Pawling, NY

by The Flatbush Gardener

© The Flatbush Gardener
“Last Sunday, …I got to meet Julia and Duncan Brine. In their landscape design firm, they specialize in native plants, so I was excited to meet them and visit their gardens.
The gardens ramble over six acres. In contrast to the familiar limitations of urban gardening, it may as well have been 600 acres…”

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esoteric Blogs on Pruned: Fantastic drawing, 1585

Duncan Brine — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:08 +0000

Pruned: Bloggers with Large Breasts, Three Eyes, Deformed Ears and Four Hands Standing in a Landscape
- (Or “A Female Figure with Large Breasts, Three Eyes, Deformed Ears and Four Hands Standing in a Landscape,” from Giovanni Battista de’ Cavalieri’s Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585. Source.) It’s been a while since we posted a list of recently discovered blogs. Despite the lamentations of my colleagues about the demise of both the quality and quantity of blogs on the built environment, for every one that goes dimmer with each passing week without a post, there’s a handful that crops up, most of which are worth keeping tabs on.
  
  Of course, these newer blogs aren’t going to be any less ephemeral. In fact, those started by thesis students and studios will most likely expire with the end of term, but at least a record of their investigations exists for anyone to use for whatever purpose…
  
  Here, meanwhile, is the list. The bloggers responsible for these blogs may or may not be as described above, but they all possess fertile minds and fecund imagination, are consummate observers, have individualized but keen insights into important issues of the day, and are voracious collectors of net flotsam and jetsam.

Calhoun’s Hot Garden Sizzles

Duncan Brine — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:20 +0000

How Many Great Books Does It Take To Recognize
A Great Garden Writer?

This is Calhoun’s fourth great book.

HOT GARDEN

Rio Nuevo Publishers

”Put your desert eyes on,” is Scott Calhoun’s first advice to gardeners facing arid Southwestern regions with extreme climate conditions. Then he shows how to translate the natural beauty of the region – mountains, canyons, sculptural succulents and incandescent sky – into gorgeous yet water-thrifty landscape designs that complement existing architecture as well as the environment that surrounds it. Spectacular photograghs help to tell the tale, showing flowering plants that are also tough as nails, vivid purple walls, and cacti with “punk rock hairdos,” along with creative touches drawn from Native American and pop culture. Gardeners at all levels will find insight, inspiration, tips, and tricks to help them create and foster beauty in the desert.

The Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess Counties hold their annual meeting at the Brine Garden in October, 2008

Julia Brine — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:12:49 +0000