If you want to share your gardens on South Buffalo Garden Walk, you must sign up by Saturday, May 31. Contact the organizers at southbuffalogardenwalk@gmail.com or southbuffalogardenwalk.odoo.com. The South Buffalo Garden walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday June 29. Maps will be available at The Garden Art Sale Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29 at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens…....
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Deadline soon for South Buffalo Garden Walk
If you want to share your gardens on South Buffalo Garden Walk, you must sign up by Saturday, May 31. Contact the organizers at southbuffalogardenwalk@gmail.com or southbuffalogardenwalk.odoo.com. The South Buffalo Garden walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday June 29. Maps will be available at The Garden Art Sale Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29 at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens…....
Sign up now for South Buffalo Garden Walk
If you want to share your gardens on South Buffalo Garden Walk, you must sign up by Saturday, May 31. Contact the organizers at southbuffalogardenwalk@gmail.com or the southbuffalogardenwalk.odoo.com. The South Buffalo Garden walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday June 29. Maps will be available at The Garden Art Sale Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29 at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens…....
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
Art, nature & philosophy mix in this landscape on Hamburg Garden Walk
by Connie Oswald Stofko “Come to the party! Life is a feast,” said an enthusiastic Jack Edson, expressing his outlook on his gardens and his life. I visited his landscape last year on the Buzz Around Hamburg Garden Walk. He touched on many topics, including nature, art and philosophy. As he discussed the mulberry trees in his yard, Edson noted that they have a painterly quality. He pointed out the light and dark of the mulberry leaves, and compared that…...