Garden Walk Buffalo 2010, “urban greenewal”

The numbers are impressive; 340 gardeners open their gardens for a weekend to 45,000 visitors, making Garden Walk Buffalo (GWB) the largest garden tour in the United States.
This year a small flock of Garden Fairies shuffled off for Buffalo to enjoy Garden Walk Buffalo
Photo bugs and garden nuts descend on Buffalo like locusts for the [...]

Dig life to live longer

This duo digs doin' it
Gardening can help you live up to 10 years longer— according to National Geographic writer Dan Buettner.
When I was in Buffalo, New York recently for the Buffalo Garden Walk, I got together some of my Buffalo and Florida friends, all having gardening as a hobby in common. As we relaxed on [...]

The Mother-of-all-murals moves towards completion

How long does a big mosaic mural take? A long ?‡#% time!
When we first envisioned doing a mural, we considered a hands-on community process suggested by Garden Fairy Heather. She estimated it would take a long weekend. Instead we ended up doing a massively-multi-media mural that will end up taking around half a year to [...]

Gardening Businesses Sprouting "Green"

With the downturn in the economy, people are looking for ways to earn extra money. If you are a gardener in need of extra green, consider transforming some of your turf areas into an income-generator. Many people are using family members to start creative new ventures.
Fresh produce proves a new business idea
Sue Hamill, one of [...]

Garden Fairies fly north for symposium

Learn how to be a more creative garden from Siobhan, Queen of the Garden Fairies
Soon a flock Garden Fairies will be shuffling off to Buffalo, participants at the upcoming garden festival symposium. Garden Fairies are magical creatures with special powers, so we could just don our fairy wings and buzz off [...]

Buffalo-area Garden Walks Blooming

Buffalo’s Garden Walk fever has spread to 17 other locales in Western New York. I give a neon-glowing-green thumbs-up to anyone involved in garden walks and tours; hosts, volunteers and organizers. I know how much work a garden walk or tour takes, having done two garden tours with The Garden Fairies.
The first time I organized [...]

Shuffle Off To Garden Walk Buffalo

Tropical plants thriving in Buffalo, one of the many visual treats at the county's largest garden walk

Buffalo, you might be saying, “what about snow?”. Well in fact, snow makes a great cover for gardens. When the weather breaks in Buffalo the city starts to bloom up a storm. If you are lucky enough [...]

The Not-so-accidental Garden Tourist

Victory Garden South, where the PBS show has been filmed
My husband knows the routine; if we go out of town, horticultural areas of interest must be included in our itinerary. I am a plant nut and he’s a car enthusiast, so trips are researched with our two passions in mind. [...]

Growing Hollyhocks and Roses in Florida?

Long considered northern mainstays, hollyhocks and roses can bring color to your freeze-ravaged, early-spring Florida [...]

Our Tarpon Springs mosaic mural project is a go!

Our long-time-coming Tarpon Mural project is a go!
The Why and the How
We have been involved in a planning process to do a mural in Tarpon Springs for three years. Part of the time was spent raising funds many through our garden tour last year and the other time was finding a location. The original location [...]