Western New York gardeners are a dedicated bunch, and with the Gardens Buffalo Niagara’s (GBN) season officially underway, every day counts….
Magical weekend: Garden Walk Buffalo
Get ready for a magical weekend as Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest garden tour in America, returns rain or shine! This self-guided tour is completely free. Just grab a map and begin your adventure through more than 300 creative and welcoming gardens throughout the city. The gardens are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you see a Garden Walk sign before or after those hours, consider it your invitation to tour the garden. However, if there is no sign, that…...
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This week: five MORE garden walks, Open Gardens & a talk
by Connie Oswald Stofko The gardening joy continues in Western New York! There will be about 300 gardens waiting for you to visit this week. Do you like elegant gardens? Quirky gardens? Tiny gardens? Vegetable gardens? Gardens with water features? Lots of native plants? Shady areas? You can find these and more! Prepare to immerse yourself in everything growing this week: a Garden walks a City of Tonawanda Garden Walk Friday Night Lights: 8:30 – 11 pm Friday, July 18…...
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Sign up for Lockport, Ken-Ton, North Tonawanda garden walks
If you live in the areas for the Ken-Ton Garden Tour, Lockport in Bloom or North Tonawanda Garden Walk, now is the time to sign up and showcase your landscape. Ken-Ton Garden Tour Registration for the Ken-Ton Garden Tour will continue through Friday, June 6. Residents in Kenmore and the Town of Tonawanda can register their gardens here. The Night Lights tour will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19. The daytime tour…...
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May 15 deadline: Sign up for East Side Garden Walk, Garden Walk Buffalo
If you live within the footprint of the East Side Garden Walk or Garden Walk Buffalo, you can showcase your garden. For both events, the deadline for signing up is Thursday, May 15. There are no strict criteria, site visits, judging or entry fees. Bring pride and joy, whether it’s a sprawling backyard, a cozy front porch, or a charming storefront display. Your garden doesn’t need to be perfect—no one’s is! East Side Garden Walk If your garden is within…...
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Murals, deer fences & more in East Aurora
by Connie Oswald Stofko “It was just a makeshift thing,” said Kim Kaiser, talking about the wooden stakes that her husband Seth set up to try to keep deer out. “It was kind of ugly,” she said. “But the fence is too low, so I had to think of something. I could put up a better fence, but I don’t want to disturb the clematis on the fence.” Wooden stakes, the kind you would buy to stake trees, were set…...
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Keep your garden looking colorful into autumn
by Connie Oswald Stofko “We don’t do the usual; we do the unusual. We pride ourselves on that,” said Brian Olinski. That’s why so many people visit him and and his husband, Gordon Ballard, during Open Gardens. You will find plants in their landscape that no one else in Western New York has. And their “Bird Avenue Gardens” are big, situated on a double lot in Buffalo, with plants everywhere you look. But you don’t need a gigantic garden or…...
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The big finale: Garden Walk Buffalo!
by Connie Oswald Stofko This is the last week to visit gardens in Western New York, and there are so many to see! First, don’t forget about Open Gardens this Thursday and Friday, your last chance to tour about 100 select gardens this year. You’ll also be able to see Artists in Open Gardens, where visual artists will be creating art in gardens in Alden, Buffalo, Cheektowaga, East Aurora, Eden, Grand Island, Hamburg, Lockport, Tonawanda, West Falls, West Seneca and…...
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Visit Amherst Garden Walk this weekend
This year’s Amherst Garden Walk offers more gardens to see—the Village of Williamsville will also be included. The walk will take place from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday, July 6 and 7. You can get maps at these garden centers: Lincoln Park, Hi Way, Spoths, Arbordale, Badding Bros, Lavocats, Spoths Market, Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses and George’s. They can also be picked up at 111 Campus Drive West. You can also download maps at the Town…...
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See before photos in ‘Garden Walk Buffalo at 30’
by Connie Oswald Stofko How many times have you looked at a landscape on Garden Walk Buffalo and thought, “Oh, my yard doesn’t look anything like this!” Well, their yards didn’t start out like that, either. See photos—before and after—of some of the most visited landscapes on Garden Walk Buffalo. You’ll find the photos and more in Garden Walk at 30, a commemorative magazine to celebrate the event’s three decades of changing the world through gardening. You can buy Garden…...
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