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Brine is a talented landscape designer whose gardens blur the line between horticulture and happenstance. The effect is artfully controlled wildness rather than trimmed, artificial perfection.

Gardeners interested in a more natural look for their landscapes were treated to an inspiring and insightful talk on Sunday afternoon at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton by Duncan and Julia Brine.

One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals.  

   

The forest, which stood in what is now Gilboa, N.Y., was first unearthed in a quarry in the 1920s. But now, a new construction project has revealed for the first time the forest floor as it stood 380 million years ago in the Devonian period.

 

"For the first time, we actually have a map of about 1,200 square meters (12,900 square feet) of a Devonian forest," said study researcher Chris Berry, a scientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. "We know which plants were growing where in this forest, and how they were interacting."

Peconic Land Trusts Kicks Off Its Third Annual Lecture Series At Bridge Gardens

• Sunday, March 18: "Naturalistic Whole Property Design" with Duncan Brine. Brine, principal landscape designer of Garden Large, and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden along with the New England Wild Flower Society, will expand upon an article he wrote for the American Horticultural Society's "American Gardener" while focusing on the six-acre Brine Garden in Pawling, NY. Anne Raver featured the garden in the New York Times, and the recent book "Gardens of the Hudson Valley" compares Duncan to Russel Wright of Garrison, NY's Manitoga. Discover how this designer finds inspiration in existing conditions and elicits ideas from the prevailing nature of a place.

Discover a contextual approach to shaping landscape and garden space. A design method
 is outlined which bases decision-making on the characteristics of the site, not conventional
 style or structure. Topics include connecting spaces, the relationship between background and foreground, transparency, and framing views. The instructor illustrates his talk with images of his 6-acre naturalistic garden.

 

Instructor: Duncan Brine

 

Friday, February 24, 2012, 10am – 12pm
 

 

 

Although botanical Latin paid homage to the great Roman plant chronicler, Pliny the Elder, it quickly evolved into a specialized, descriptive and scientifically precise language far removed from classical Latin. The late British scholar William Stearn, who wrote the definitive reference book on botanical Latin, said Pliny would have understood the work of Clusius but not that of 19th-century botanical luminaries.

The wry joke is that even with the diminished role of Latin, the argot used by English-speaking botanists might as well be Latin.

Globally, scientists discover 2,000 new species per annum. As many as one in five of the world’s plant species have yet to be identified, and not until they are named and known to the scientific community can they can be protected and studied further. “You can’t talk about it until that point,” said James Miller, vice president for science at the New York Botanical Garden. “It’s not the end of knowing a species, it’s the beginning.”

The New York Botanical Garden seminar

 

project by project, plant by plant, Diblik, 57, has become one of the most original, sophisticated and influential plantsmen in the Midwest.

If you have visited the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (luriegarden.org), you've seen plants he grew from seed. If you have been to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer and strolled by the Louis Sullivan Stock Exchange Arch, you've seen how he puts plants together. If you've gambled at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, you've seen a site where he combines native plants in a stylized way.

Gardening for a Lifetime is a touching memoir about having to scale back after widowhood and painful joints made it impossible to keep up with a large country garden.

Eddison has written an encouraging road map for accepting and embracing a new and simpler way of gardening.

To Lorrie Otto, the manicured expanse of green surrounding most homes is the root of environmental evil she's spent decades trying to stamp out.

She founded Wild Ones, a natural-landscaping advocacy group in Wisconsin, of which she's still a board member. And she continues to be an advocate for natural landscaping and protecting the Earth.

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It all goes to underline a point that has become increasingly true in recent  years: the suburbs are now nationally significant for wildlife

54 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 said they were not at all worried or not very worried about global warming

young Americans are just as divided as older Americans about whether global warming is real

Sunwriter7 #GWA The podcast JeanAnn hosted re social media is excellent. Don't miss it!

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By Robin Pogrebin

Standing on a newly renovated stretch of an elevated promenade that was once a railway line for delivering cattle — surrounded by the community activists, elected officials and architects who made the transformation happen — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cut a red ribbon on Monday morning to signify that the first phase of the High Line is finished and ready for strolling. (Panoramic view here and a map here.)

 

Calling the High Line, which opens to the public on Tuesday, “an extraordinary gift to our city’s future,” Mr. Bloomberg said, “today, we’re about to unwrap that gift.’’ He added, “it really does live up to its highest expectations.”

 

The first portion of the three-section High Line, which runs along the Hudson River from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street, will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. There are entrances at Gansevoort Street (steps) and at 16th Street (elevator); exits are located every few blocks.