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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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Not too impressed with the heirloom tomatoes
They're pretty, but not too productive. This is the bulk of the heirloom tomatoes we harvested this year. It was the first time trying heirlooms. Not so sure I'd do it again. When I was kvetching to our local garden guru, Sally Cunningham, about the ...
Ready for the largest garden tour in the country...
Expecting about 45,000 to come this weekend to visit the 340 gardens of Garden Walk Buffalo. If you're not doing anything, please stop by. Had about 2,000 people visit just my garden last year. This year, because a TV station did a live remote this p...
Potager Progress
On bloom day, I got so many comments about the rose standard, I thought it would be a good time to show it in the context of its setting–in the middle of the raised-bed vegetable potager garden.From the side: beans on the left just getting started....
Garden Bloggers Spring Fling 2009
One of my favorite photos. The Lurie Garden. I love the contrast of Piet Oudolf's prairie-style garden, with swaths of purple salvia, against the skyscrapers.What a weekend. 5 a.m. wake-up time. Fly in. Train to afternoon in Chicago Botanic Garden. T...
Oh what a difference two weeks makes
Hyacinths are hoppin', bulbs are bloomin'.Two weeks ago:One week ago:Today:I'm anxious to get out there and plant the vegetable potager (below), but we could still have a frost (came close last night). I've cleaned up the beds and mixed in this year'...
"Why is isn't tomato a vegetable, dad?"
My vegetable garden, it turns out, is mostly fruit!Shoot. She's almost 11. The questions have gotten harder. This is a "gotcha" question for sure. Short answer is, it's a fruit. "What is a fruit, dad?" Damn. Can't go any farther from here. Luckily we...
