Press + Publications

  • The New York Times

    “Vistas and Close-Ups, Staged by a Filmmaker”

    by Anne Raver

  • Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley

    by Jane Garmey Photographs by John Hall

    Duncan Brine, “set out to make a naturalistic garden.”

    “‘We are environmentally conscious. Our focus is about creating a natural landscape that takes its cues from the feel of the place.'”

    “They have a strong commitment to native plants, but the Brines are not rigid purists. If they like a plant it goes into the mix.”

  • Gardens of the Hudson Valley

    by Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner
    Photographs by Steve Gross and Susan Daley
    Forward by Gregory Long, president emeritus of the New York Botanical Garden

    “The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.”

    “Six acres of plantings appear at first to be a most exquisite bit of natural landscape, displaying a minimal amount of human intervention. The Brine Garden, “is a vision that is deeply knowledgeable of plants’ habits and needs and uses them to tell the landscape story….Although the emphasis is on natives, handsome foreigners appropriate to the landscape take their place in the composition as well.”

  • The American Gardener

    “Inviting Nature into Your Garden”

    by GardenLarge principal landscape designer, Duncan Brine

  • Pawling Living

    “The GardenLarge...BrineGarden Story”
    by Michelle Farnum

  • Pawling Living

    “Open Day At The BrineGarden”
    by Lisa Kelsey
    photography by Norman McGrath

  • Connecticut Gardener

    “Natural By Design”
    by Steve Silk
    (former managing editor of Fine Gardening magazine)

  • Hudson Valley

    “A Purposeful Confusion”
    by Lynn Hazlewood

  • Horticulture

    “The Big Idea: Duncan Brine’s philosophy of gardening large”
    by Carleen Madigan

  • Litchfield County Times' Passport Magazine

    “Many Splendid Things”
    by Tovah Martin

  • 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants

    by Ruth Clausen
    photography by Alan L. Detrick

    This useful book is enjoying a long life in bookstores and on gardeners’ book shelves. GardenLarge knows deer resistant plants. It is featured on the cover of this authoritative book.

  • Designer Plant Combinations

    by Scott Calhoun

    GardenLarge is represented in this collection of landscape and garden designers’ work from around the country.

    Scott is the author of the classic, Chasing Wildflowers: A Mad Search for Wild Gardens and a handful of other, colorful garden books.

  • The News-Times

    “Duncan Brine, Be Mindful of Context”

    by Deb Keiser

    “…elements of concealment and surprise are written into the landscape. They have plants of truly connoisseur quality…they’re all botanical aristocrats.”

  • The Woodstock Times

    “Back to the Garden”
    by Andrea Barrist Stern

    “A unique vision and appreciation for the landscape have created drama on a six-acre Pawling property.”

  • North American Rock Garden Quarterly

    “Fire In The Forests Of Lassen”
    by Kyle Brine

“Naturalistic gardens are part of a two-way remediation; they are a means for each of us to give back to nature while, at the same time, we are benefiting from nature. For those who choose to create a naturalistic garden, the dividends are richly rewarding.”