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I have switched formats for this blog—from Blogger to Wordpress. This blog will stay here for archival purposes, no changes, but no additional posts either. The posts from this site were fo...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/10/moving-announcement-new-link-to-visit.html

Gardeners of Buffalo's East Side banded together to create the first-ever garden tour on Saturday, July 21, 2018. And it was great. Mary Vanvorst, a Gardens Buffalo Niagara (GBN) volunteer, ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-sun-rises-first-on-buffalos-east.html

After all these years of visiting Garden Walk Buffalo gardens, I still, on occasion, find gardens that leave me awestruck and delighted. This is this year's entry. The home garden of Julia and...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/07/having-ball-in-garden.html

It was a banner year for the Buffalo-style Garden Art Sale! 47 vendors of garden art, everything from statuary to furniture to birdhouses to wind chimes—and way, way more. I help organize. ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/07/2018-garden-art-acquisitions.html

I haven't posted in so long! Busy summer of helping to plan garden tours , garden tours by bike , hosting bus tours, planning meetings for Garden Walk Buffalo , Open Gardens , The Buffalo-style...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/06/i-havent-posted-in-so-long-busy-summer.html

The Buffalo-style Garden Art Sale, of which I am on the organizing committee, is going to have its biggest year ever! In our seventh year, we're expecting 41 vendors from as far and wide as Flo...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/05/buffalo-style-garden-art-sale-is.html

Garbage cans, dustbin, ashcan, waste-bin, rubbish receptacle, garbage pail, litter basket, trashcan, whatever you call them, in Butchart Gardens , you can call them pretty. Our visit to Butchar...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-garden-garbage-cans-of-butchart.html

Our home is the Buffalo News' "Home of the Week" this week on their online version of the newspaper. You've seen the garden (ad nauseam) but this is a chance for us to invite you inside. Y...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/04/seen-garden-already-take-look-inside.html

Here is the 5'x3' vertical succulent planter attached to the west-facing exterior wall of my house. I cover it in burlap in the winter. This is what it looks like when I take the burlap off. The...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/04/time-to-suc-it-up.html

It's real now. There's postcards for it. I am co-authoring a book with Buffalo News and Buffalo Spree garden columnist, educator, TV garden personality, and garden book author Sally Cunningham...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/im-writing-garden-book.html

So, the snow receded last week, and we were able to see what damage the desperately hungry rabbit(s) have been doing. They may have killed a couple of my apple trees. The lead photo is a dwar...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-stripping-bunny-but-not-kind-one.html

I have a system for cutting down my tall grasses that I've mastered over the years. It's really a bit early to be cutting down the grasses, and I normally wouldn't until later in the fall, but ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/10/cutting-grasses.html

I haven't planted a stylin' terrarium since my teen years in the '70s. My daughter did me a solid and gave me these way decent glass planters from a friend's aunt's estate sale. No one had boug...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/10/terrariums-dig-it.html

On Facebook, someone asked what I (or anyone in Buffalo, for that matter) do to "break down the garden" for the winter. My list looked like this: Outdoor furniture goes into the garage Outdoor...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/09/breaking-down-garden-fall-ritual.html

Nifty purple hose and nozzle, huh? Those, and the blue rain wand in the center, I picked up at the recent GWA | The Association of Garden Communicators ' Annual Conference here in Buffalo from ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-hose-rack-not-off-rack.html

We had four trees taken down last week. None of them were ours. Two were in one neighbor's yard, the other two in another neighbor's yard. Neither used the back yards for anything other than pa...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/09/let-there-be-light-and-less-weed-trees.html

Buffalo gardeners and cultural institutions provided a warm welcome to 350+ members of the GWA | The Association of Garden Communicators for their 2017 annual conference held here in the City ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/08/garden-writers-responses-to-thier-visit.html

For Garden Walk Buffalo this year, Visit Buffalo Niagara (VBN, our visitors bureau) and their media relations firm in NYC, Mardiks Public Relations , was able to finagle a live Skype intervie...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/08/so-i-made-it-onto-weather-channel.html

It's Garden Walk Buffalo weekend and garden art projects are being finished up throughout Buffalo as you read this. This bottle wall, in the Richmond Avenue garden of Garden Walk Buffalo Chair...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/garden-art-brilliant-wine-bottle-wall.html

Each year, as I tour local gardens, I inevitably find a few that I'd never been to before that become my new favorite. I'm fickle that way. Here's this years' favorite. You enter the garden...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-garden-that-is-pub-or-pub-that-is.html

The DiMino Garden on Sharon Drive in Lockport. In its sixth year, Gardens Buffalo Niagara 's Tours of Open Gardens is proving to be more popular than ever, based on directory sales. Excepti...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/12-open-gardens-in-buffalo-niagara-you.html

Splosh. I finished it! I started making the "Ever-raining Rain Chain" for the Harry Potter Garden this past winter in the basement. I posted about it here . It took me a while to get it go...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/video-my-four-diy-fountains.html

I think I'll call him Rex. He was my big purchase this year at the Buffalo-style Garden Art Sale . Each year of the sale that I help organize, I try to purchase one new piece of art. Rex was ...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/06/this-years-buffalo-style-garden-art.html

  Last month's issue of Buffalo Spree Magazine , their 50th anniversary issue, featured the shed on the cover of the Home section of the publication. Inside was a two-page feature on the sh...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-taj-ma-shed-published-again.html

There's so much I want to post that has been going on recently...but I don't have the time! I'm going to try and be better. I'm helping plan for Open Gardens , the Buffalo-style Garden Art Sale...

http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-fence-post.html