Charles Birnbaum: Beyond the Silos: Historic Preservation, Design and Cultural Landscape 

A lecture organized by the Graycliff Conservancy, Inc, by the brilliant and noted authority on landscape of the 20th century will take place at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center at 7 pm on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Garden Walk Beautification Grants have helped to fund 43 garden beautification projects for a total of more than $36,000 in last seven years.

Garden Walk Buffalo announces beautification funds were provided to the following projects this year:

This time, it's the Summer 2012 issue of Real Garden magazine, a specialty publication of NYC-based Country Almanac, by Harris Publications.

The gardens featured include:

• The Lancaster Avenue garden of Jim Locke and Annabelle Irey (page 16, High Summer Victorian)
  
• The Putnam Avenue garden of Wayne Gostomsky and Thomas Flanigan (page 38, Cottage Craving)
  
• The Granger Place garden of Carol Siracuse & Tom Palamuso (page 51, Upfront Flourish)
  
• The Lancaster Avenue garden of Leslie & Jim Charlier (page 62, Vine & Dandy)

Backyard Solutions magazine, a nationally distributed landscape & gardening magazine, features two Buffalo gardens with two-page spreads and gardener interviews and another garden to illustrate ways of making your backyard more private.

The featured gardens include:

• The St. James Street garden of Michael Boland
• The Lincoln Parkway carriage house of Laurie Counihan Brown
• The Lancaster Avenue Garden of Leslie & Jim Charlier

Garden Walk regulars Miro Sako and Sue Hough Sako's tree house is featured in Buffalo Spree's HOME magazine with a two-page spread. Sue is a Garden Walk Buffalo board member and responsible for the annual poster design (she's a Creative Supervisor with Buffalo ad agency Travers Collins) and orders the GW merchandise we sell (hats, shirts, totes, calendars, etc.). This is the only tree house that can be seen on GW Buffalo!

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Features you'll find online will include:

• Photo collections of different features of the Walk - titles like Mirrors in the Garden, and Hellstrips. More collections will be added over time keep inspired for the other 363 days a year.
  
• 43 Great Garden Ideas found on Garden Walk you can do in your own garden
• Discount coupons and offers from our sponsors
• Up-to-the-minute links to what is being said and written, nationally (and internationally!), about Garden Walk Buffalo
• Garden Walk events - like our booths at Plantasia, Elmwood Festival of the Arts, our Spring Beautification Grants & Speaker event and more.
• Interact with other Garden Walk fans
• Find out more about gardens that you may want to visit for this year's Walk, or see those gardens that you can never quite get to!

GW, being a small non-profit, is looking to extend its marketing reach into the social media realm because many GW gardeners and attendees are on Facebook and, well, it costs nothing! And Garden Walk is all about free!

Visit Facebook and "Like" our page and you'll get Garden Walk updates coming directly to you.

Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs, of Grand Haven, Michigan, will be GW first sponsor from outside the Buffalo Niagara region. 

"Garden Walk Buffalo is one of the most unique gardening events in the country," says Tim Wood, Director of Marketing at Proven Winners ColorChoice, "We are thrilled for the opportunity to support home gardening in such a direct way. We look forward to working with the organizers, attendees, and participating gardeners, and getting out to see some of the gardens ourselves. Talking with the gardeners who use your product is the best market research you can do."

On the garden blog. allanbecker.gardenguru, Montreal garden designer, consultant, lecturer and writer Allan Becker says of Buffalo's gardens, "Have you noticed the Buffalo style gardens that have been evolving in western Upstate New York? This type of gardening is considered by some to be an original American contribution to urban landscaping. Although the style pays homage to Romantic English gardens, its unique and distinct local flavor sets it apart from other gardening idioms. Cultivated in a very cold part of the USA, where winters are severe and the growing season is short, its development is just short of a miracle. That so many residents of Buffalo have successfully embraced this style to make it their own is a phenomenon."

And this is only a small portion of what he writes f Buffalo's gardens. To read his full blog post, visit here. Leave him a comment if you've been on the Garden Walk before, or if you have a garden on the Walk!

The 2012 issue of Great Backyards magazine is out and it features 95 gardens from around the country, including these four from Garden Walk Buffalo:

Putnam Street garden of Phoebe & Bruce McKay

Bidwell Parkway garden of Hilary & Matt Turco

Lancaster Avenue garden of Corinne & Steve Curvin

Delavan Avenue the garden of Jennifer & Jim Guercio

See the two-page spread images after the jump...