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The Brine Garden – Duncan & Julia Brine
2010 Open Day
Saturday, October 2, from 2pm to 6pm, rain or shine
Pawling, NY
This naturalistic six-acre garden and arboretum has been underway since 1990. Two 1920s farmhouses establish an old-fashioned ambience. 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. At this transitional time of year, there are fewer flowers and more berries. Fall foliage color begins to tint a varied array of plants which structure the garden, including an allée of Taxodium and groupings of Acer triflorum, Betula nigra, Parrotia, and Miscanthus giganteus. A plant list indicates U.S. and Dutchess County natives.Recently, Anne Raver of The New York Times, Carleen Madigan Perkins of Horticulture and Lynn Hazelwood of Hudson Valley Magazine wrote enthusiastic profiles of the garden.
Handicapped Accessibility: no
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Native and Indigenous Plants at the Brine Garden
