My photos in Buffalo Spree Home magazine

My photos in Buffalo Spree Home magazine

March 29, 2011 The charming Cottage District in Buffalo, NY, captured the hearts of many a garden blogger last July at Buffa10, the 3rd annual Garden Bloggers Fling. Six of my pictures from that weekend are featured in the Spring 2011 issue of Buffalo Spree Home magazine. One of them ...
Lovely Lancaster Ave gardens at Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

Lovely Lancaster Ave gardens at Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

July 19, 2010 Playful wall decor in a Lancaster Avenue garden Wrapping up my series about Garden Bloggers Buffa10, I’ve saved some of the best gardens for last, as did our hosts in arranging access to the remarkable Lancaster Avenue gardens for the final day of the event. We had ...
In Elizabeth's and Jim's gardens at Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

In Elizabeth’s and Jim’s gardens at Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

July 18, 2010 A week ago today Garden Bloggers Buffa10 was wrapping up with a self-guided tour of the incredible Lancaster Avenue gardens (more pics tomorrow). Before we hit Lancaster, however, my travel partner Diana and I opted to stop by co-host Elizabeth Licata’s Allentown garden for a second, less-crowded ...
High tea in the garden of Mike and Kathy Shadrack: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

High tea in the garden of Mike and Kathy Shadrack: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

July 16, 2010 Two buses carrying the garden bloggers of Buffa10 jounced slowly down a long, skinny driveway in the woods near Hamburg, New York, to deliver us to the creekside glen that is Kathy and Mike Shadrack‘s garden. A former London bobby with a sly wit, Mike has authored ...
People from Garden Bloggers Buffa10

People from Garden Bloggers Buffa10

July 15, 2010 I never cease to marvel at how a love of gardening (and blogging about it) brings together people of all ages, from disparate growing regions, backgrounds, and politics, and forges instant friendships between them. To go for the obvious metaphor, we’re like a home-grown bouquet picked from ...
Japanese Garden in Buffalo's Delaware Park: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

Japanese Garden in Buffalo’s Delaware Park: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

July 14, 2010 One of the stops on Friday’s bus tour at Garden Bloggers Buffa10 was the Japanese Garden in Delaware Park. Part of Buffalo’s historic Olmsted Parks System, the garden was constructed in 1974 by its Japanese sister city, Kanazawa, but as Buffalo fell on hard times the park ...
Buffalo's charming Cottage Garden District: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

Buffalo’s charming Cottage Garden District: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling

July 14, 2010 Exuberantly planted front-yard gardens, colorful window boxes, lush container plantings, shady nooks, garden art, and Crayola-hued houses make the Cottage District in Buffalo, New York, a delight to explore. It’s one of the most popular neighborhoods to tour during Garden Walk, which begins in two weeks. Lucky ...
Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling: First day impressions

Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling: First day impressions

July 13, 2010 Sweet-smelling, freckled lilies. Crimson bee balm as tall as myself. Soft-textured lawn grass spangled with white clover, so different from Austin’s coarse, shaggy St. Augustine and so much more inviting. Tall, brick Victorian homes standing shoulder-to-shoulder on streets shaded by goth-cloaked Norway maples. A city eager to ...
Goodbye, garden. Hello, Buffalo!

Goodbye, garden. Hello, Buffalo!

July 07, 2010 Pink rain lilies (Zephryanthes ‘Labuffarosea’) open their eager faces to the sky after a rain I’ve hardly been home lately, and I only unpacked my suitcase this time in order to do laundry. But I’ll be repacking it tomorrow because it’s time for the 3rd annual garden-blogger ...
Garden bloggers to meet up in Buffalo

Garden bloggers to meet up in Buffalo

January 11, 2010 On July 8-11, Buffalo, New York, is hosting the 2010 garden bloggers meet-up called Garden Bloggers Buffa10 (known in previous years as Garden Bloggers Spring Fling). Around 40 garden bloggers have already RSVP’d to attend. Will you be there? I will! Elizabeth Licata of Garden Rant and ...