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Garden Walk Buffalo receives Beacon Award |
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 Visit Buffalo Niagara (VBN) presented an award to Garden Walk Buffalo as the "2011 Tourism Initiative of the Year" at the second annual Beacon Awards, honoring excellence in the Buffalo Niagara travel and tourism industry, with more than 400 tourism professionals in attendance. The award was offered with the following comments from VBN:
"The Beacon Award for Outstanding Tourism Initiative of the Year goes to Garden Walk Buffalo.
In the summer of 1995, a group of volunteers from the Norwood/West Utica Neighborhood Association created the first Buffalo Garden Walk.
The main goal was to encourage neighborhood beautification and community pride. What started as a stroll through 29 neighborhood gardens has grown to more than 370 gardens in 2011, making the event the largest of its kind in the country.
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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 370 Buffalo gardens, the largest garden tour in America. Held annually on the last weekend of July, in 2012 it will be Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 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 American Spirit of Landscape, Part II |
 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
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2012 GW Beautification Awards Announced |
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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: |
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Four more GW gardens in a national magazine |
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 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) |
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Three more GW gardens in a national magazine |
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 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 BolandThe Lincoln Parkway carriage house of Laurie Counihan BrownThe Lancaster Avenue Garden of Leslie & Jim Charlier |
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The Garden Walk tree house |
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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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Like us, really Like us! GW's New Facebook Page |
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 Please visit us on our new Facebook page which can be found here. Please click over and "Like" our page.
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.
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