Buffalo's Gardens Make National Headlines

Fine Gardening & Metropolis Magazine Spotlight Buffalo's Garden Walk

Buffalo's gardening culture is earning national acclaim. In the December 2009 issue of Fine Gardening, editor's asked garden professionals across the country for their "Three Garden Wishes." California writer Amy Stewart wished for "neighbors with better gardens than mine," and she singled out Buffalo's Garden Walk as a revelation.

"I want to be surrounded by gardeners with more imagination than I can conjure up. I need motivation–and company. It was not until I experienced the extraordinary Garden Walk held in Buffalo, New York, that I realized that some people live in neighborhoods in which everyone gardens. Plants get traded over the fence, and there are garden parties that last long into the evening, with gardeners drunkenly sharpening their Felcos and stumbling into the perennial border, cocktails in hand, to finish the weekend's work. It sounds dangerous but thrilling."

Metropolis magazine also featured Buffalo in its October 2009 issue. Writer Kerry Jacobs described the annual Garden Walk filling the city's gentrified neighborhoods with "throngs of strollers determined to drop in on as many luxuriant backyards as possible." The article, titled Wright-ish, primarily covers the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House and Toshiko Mori's Greatbatch Pavilion, but also touches on the broader conversation about rebuilding demolished historic structures in Buffalo.

Read the Metropolis article here.