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Bringing Nature Home:Brine Garden 20th Anniversary

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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.

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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.

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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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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 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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Native Euonymous at the Brine Garden