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Garden travel, ideas, inspiration and great Buffalo, NY gardens by the well-travelled president of Garden Walk Buffalo, one of the largest garden tours in the U.S.
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Mr. Mayor, what the hell are you doing?
Mr. Mayor,Back in September, you announced that, at the end of Erie County's five-year take-over of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks on December 31, 2009, that the City wanted the responsibility back. In 2004, the County had placed the day-to-day management...
Extreme Makeover - Buffalo Edition
Here are some photos I took last night visiting the "set" for ABC TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition, here on the west side of Buffalo, roughly walking distance from my house.Lit up like a Hollywood production, work goes on around the clock.On Saturd...
Kayak trip to the test gardens
This weekend my wife & I kayaked in Lake Erie from Broderick Park (a short, 4 minute drive from our house, walking distance if we didn't lug kayaks) to the Erie Basin Marina, where our local test garden for annuals is located. It wasn't a great d...
Tom's easy-peasy rainwater reclamation system
Click on the image to link to the TV interview with Terry & Tom.Garden Walk Buffalo Gardener, Tom Palamuso, faithfully presents his Granger Place garden each year. But as much as his garden is something to see, his home-made, rain-barrel based, 1...
A garden to finaly stop following
I'm away from my garden all this week. I've been wanting to catalog some of the press Garden Walk got this year, so my next few posts will be of some of the Buffalo News pieces that were in the newspaper this year. You are my hapless audience.First p...
It's over. Let Garden Walk Buffalo 2010 begin!
I share here only gardens from my street. This is 72 Lancaster.It was an awesome weekend, despite the tornadoes.Garden Walk 2009 is over and it was a great weekend. Weather held out for the most part. There were intermittent quick light showers and ...
Garden Walk Buffalo
It's that time again!You're all invited to Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest garden tour in the U.S. Large doesn't mean much though–it may just be the best garden tour in the country. But that's subjective, I'm the president of the whole shebang. Th...
Signs of the times – And it's Garden Walk time!
This is cool. One of the streets in Buffalo that has benefited greatly from the enthusiasm, encouragement, PR and traffic of Garden Walk Buffalo, is unquestionably Sixteenth Street, in the Cottage District.To celebrate the fact, and to brighten up th...
A garden to follow, part 2
The Buffalo News has been following the progress of the garden of Jennifer & Jim Guercio, as they head crashingly toward their deadline of maximum gardenosity, Garden Walk Buffalo. The News' three part series is actually following the work being ...
Buffalo gardens in "Easy Weekend Gardening" magazine
Left: 75 Lancaster is on page 10, across the street, 72 Lancaster is on page 31.Two Buffalo gardens are represented in this month's issue of Garden Gate's Easy Weekend Gardening magazine. Whereas the owners of the gardens might take issue with the "e...
Traffic Circle #2–Another Round
Buffalo is blessed with an urban landscape designed by none other than Frederic Law Olmsted, inspired in large part by the parkland, boulevards, and squares of Paris. Our system of parks, parkways and traffic circles make up one of his largest bodies...
Outdoor Art
This has less to do with gardening and more about art. But with a moniker of Art of Gardening, I would be remiss to not inject some art occasionally. Not that I need justification. I can post about aphid infestations, I can certainly post about more ...
A garden to follow
The Buffalo News will be following the preparations of Garden Walk Gardeners Jennifer & Jim Guercio, as they prepare their THREE gardens for the 15th annual Garden Walk Buffalo. News writer Anne Neville interviewed Jennifer & Jim last week, i...
Buffalo Garden in Garden Ideas and Outdoor Living
Another Buffalo garden hits the national stage in the Spring 2009 issue of Garden Ideas & Outdoor Living, a Better Homes & Gardens special interest publication. The 8-page story, titled In-Town Seclusion, explains how gardener Mike Banks made...
Gardening Crowds
I just ran across this photo that was taken by Ellie, of the line of people packing in to see her alley during Garden Walk Buffalo, '08. This is in reference to my previous post, Ellie's Alley.This is Ellie's one-way, dead-end Ally they're cramming t...
Flowering trees of four by fours
I've always loved this simple idea. For the impact it provides, how cheap & easy is this? Found on the Parkside Garden Tour in the garden of Steve & Connie. They are on the Parkside Garden Tour, but are also on the Garden Walk Buffalo committ...
Jennifer's Umbrella Stand
Jennifer's garden is another popular stop on Garden Walk Buffalo. Her garden is just brimming with great ideas. Everywhere you turn there's another great garden idea for inspiration.Here, she's taken a plastic planter, fauxed he outside to get a pati...
What the hellstrip.
Found this while on Manchester Place, the week before Garden Walk last year. A beautiful rock garden, complete with artwork, occupying a hell strip (the area between sidewalk and road). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nicer one.This is a favorite ...
Cheery Chair
Found on Sixteenth Street on Garden Walk Buffalo. Sixteenth Street is a popular stop on garden walk not only because it has some great gardens, but because it has a great number of gardens. I used to live on this block years ago and was on the Walkâ€...
Ellie's Alley
Wouldn't it be great to come home to this colorful alley every day? Ellie does. This is the alley beside her house. Originally intended as a (very narrow) driveway, it is now an immense planter. She added brick on top of the surface and made "planter...
Squirrel torture
With torture being in the news so much recently. it made me think of this bird feeder we saw on the Parkside Garden Tour last year, one of the many garden tours around Buffalo. I don't know how well it reads in the photo, but the owner of the birdhou...
More Buffalo gardens in a national magazine
Great Gardens Beds and Borders, a specialty publication of Garden Gate magazine, uses three Garden Walk gardens as case studies, illustrating points made in different articles...What you won't see in the magazine article: Tom's entire pool. Which pre...
Circle of Fire (and water)
Photo taken while driving, pardon my lack of composition & focus. Buffalo is graced with a series of traffic circles designed by none other the grandaddy of landscape design, Frederic Law Olmsted. We are doubly blessed with the Buffalo Olmsted Pa...
Buffalo's Shed Spread
The Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop for this month is on Sheds and Outbuildings. I've been collecting images of the variety of sheds and outbuildings from the local garden tours I went on this summer. Obviously, many come from the tour that I am t...
Garden District? Georgetown? King Wiliam District? No, just little ol' me, Buffalo.
Here's some shots of homes & gardens from a neighborhood walk last weekend. Primarily it is Linwood Ave, Summer Street, Oakland Place and Elmwood Avenue.Here's where we started. My house.We live one house away from a busy commercial strip of rest...
