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Visit our "Buffalo style" gardens! |
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Garden Walk Buffalo is a free, self-guided tour of more than 380 Buffalo gardens, the largest garden tour in America. Held annually on the last weekend of July, in 2013 it will be Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"There are Japanese gardens, English gardens, Russian gardens (i.e., barely controlled wildernesses) and what I would call Buffalo gardens - eclectic, funky mixes in which found objects and exotic-looking surrounding rooftops figure prominently." - Atlantic.com
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The 2013 Garden Walk Buffalo Poster! |
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 We have a poster! The 2013 Garden Walk Buffalo
poster art winner this year was watercolorist Dana Fox Jenkins. The
poster was designed by art director, and Garden Walk Buffalo board member, Sue Hough Sako. Posters will start
to be distributed next week. To purchase a poster online (only $5!) visit our online store.
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An Evening of Wine and Roses |
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Friday, July 26, 5-9 p.m. This first-time Garden Walk event will begin at the Clement Mansion. Guests will enjoy wine and light refreshments before boarding luxury coaches that will take them on a tour of three exceptional gardens in a lovely Buffalo neighborhoods. These exclusive gardens are within the footprint of Garden Walk Buffalo but they have never been, nor will they be on the free, self-guided tour that begins this year on Saturday, July 27.
Master Gardeners will be present and musicians from the Community Music School of Buffalo will provide entertainment in the gardens. Guests will return to the Clement Mansion for a reception of heavy hors d’oeuvres, dessert, and wine served in a signature, keepsake wine glass. Reservations are limited to 100 guests; $100 per ticket. There is ample free parking at the Clement Mansion (Red Cross Building), 786 Delaware Avenue. Registration will begin at 5:15 p.m. For questions, call (716) 855-1091. To reserve your seat(s) online today, visit here.
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Garden Walk Buffalo in the New York Times |
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The New York Times publishes a list of great home & garden
tours that will take place over the summer each spring. This year Garden
Walk Buffalo is on the list - in the "North of New York City" portion
of the list. We'll take what we can get.
You can visit the New York Times list here.
It's a good list. Make sure you visit the slide show. The Buffalo
garden below is on the list of great homes and gardens. Photo is by Don
Zinteck, of Photographics 2.
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Can't make it to Garden Walk Buffalo? Buffalo's National Garden Festival has six other weks of garden tours and activities... |
 Garden Walk Buffalo, being the largest garden tour in the U.S., is the signature event (and inspiration) for Buffalo's National Garden Festival (NGF). But it is just one of dozens of events that happen during the six weeks of the Festival (June 21- August 4) taking place throughout Erie and Niagara Counties.For a list of events, click on "Read More...." |
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The Hamilton Spectator says... |
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 "Garden Walk Buffalo it is something that all gardeners should see and experience before we head off to the great back yard in the sky."
...and other nice things like... "But Buffalo was, well, terrific. And I learned a whole lot, in one long hot summer day, about a concentration of some of the most interesting, funkiest, colourful, imaginative, made-on-a-shoestring gardens you can see anywhere. Oh yes, they’re beautiful, as well." Read the full article, with photos here.
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 USA Today Online travel section features and article on Buffalo's Garden Walk and National Garden Festival. Of garden Walk, they say, "The centerpiece event, Garden Walk Buffalo, a free tour of 370 private gardens July 28-29, is the nation's largest. Quite a feat, considering the runner-up (in size anyway), is Virginia Garden Week in April, whose venues span an entire state." and "It goes beyond pretty flowers," says Visit Buffalo Niagara spokesman Peter Burakowski. "It's pride of place. In other cities this would be called trespassing. Here, they welcome you and maybe offer you a glass of wine and a snack."
Read the full article here.
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Volunteer for Garden Walk Buffalo! |
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 Garden Walk is looking for volunteers to help out the weekend of the Walk. We're looking to "staff" our three headquarters with enthusiastic supporters of the Walk that can help answer questions for estimated 60,000 visitors (20% come from out-of-town and don't know the area well!), encourage donations, help visitors with their purchases of GW merchandise, and direct visitors to areas of the Walk that they may find of interest.
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