Buffalo-Style Gardens: Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs

by Sally Cunningham, Jim Charlier

Buffalo-Style Gardens is a one-of-a-kind, offbeat garden design book that showcases the wildly inventive gardens and gardeners of Buffalo – and offers readers "the best of the best” ideas to use in their own small-space gardens. Who knew? Buffalo, New York, is the new Ground Zero for free-spirited garden innovation? Learn from the stories of everyday, non-professional gardeners who have unintentionally transformed Buffalo’s urban neighborhoods into a 21st century garden design laboratory. It’s all about seeing your space with new eyes and not letting existing limitations on the ground stop you from being out-of-the-box creative. Each July, over 400 private gardens open to the public to show off their fresh, often quirky, take on outdoor living. There’s nothing quite like “Garden Walk Buffalo,” the largest garden tour in North America. With hundreds of design, planting and DIY tips , authors and show-garden experts Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier reveal how fences and furnishings, trees and shrubs, art and whimsy – and the element of surprise – work together to change an ordinary space into something uniquely your own unforgettable Buffalo-style garden.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

224 pages, Hardcover

Published February 22, 2019

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this book, hope I can achieve this look!

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved some of the gates and fell in love with the climbing hydrangea wall.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

being a Buffalonian and long time fan of the Buffalo and area Garden Walks, I "needed" this book.
I thought it would be just a fun romp through our neighborhoods and gardens but it was so much more. Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier did a fantastic job of talking one through the thinking process behind gardens as well as the production of beautiful ones while using the examples of so many beautiful and unique gardens in the Buffalo area. This book is packed with loads of great information and food for thought for even the most experienced gardener. What a winner!!

[Carla Bayha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best way to learn to garden and how to design your garden, is to visit other gardens. Luckily, we have a couple recent developments in the US that duplicate the success of the UK's Open Garden Days and their National Garden Scheme. One is the Garden Conservancy Open Days, and the other is the multitude of local garden walks. Ann Arbor's garden walk is slightly older than Buffalo, New York's. Buffalo's is definitely bigger--over a 1,000 gardens in their metro area in New York and Canada. That's probably why the authors lay claim to this gardening trend, one that makes paint, whimsy, and found objects, almost as important as the plants. This book just makes me smile: the generous illustrations make it the next best thing to being in Buffalo at THEIR best time of the year. For a list of garden walks in Southeast Michigan, go to Michigangardener.com.

[Libby · Rating 5 out of 5]

A unique garden book full of the same art, heart, and soul as the great Buffalo, N.Y., gardens it features. Buffalo-Style Gardens provides an inspiring overview of what exactly makes a Buffalo-Style garden, and a closer look at many charming properties. You'll get great ideas for your own gardens and probably want to visit Buffalo and the Garden Walk by the time you read the last page.

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very impressive collection of pictures and gardening tips

[Ethnea Ferguson · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a beautiful book. Tons of gardening advice. Stunning pictures. This was a great memory of a wonderful trip we took to attend the Buffalo Garden Walk with dear friends.

[Katherine Dunne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly useful book about garden design! Especially since it's in zone 5 which is roughly the same as our zone.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being from Buffalo I found this loaded with wonderful ideas.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of different types of gardens. It would be neat going on the tour for these gardens.

[Mary Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

All around great book!

[Karima · Rating 5 out of 5]

So proud of my hometown!

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this higher level guide to gardening in Buffalo. In addition to grabbing ideas from the Garden Walk, this book really inspired me to act on those ideas.

[Catherine Weaver · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book might not be better than other gardening books, but if you’ve been to the Buffalo Garden walk it will resonate. I admit I bought it for the garden pictures but was very pleased with the useful and accurate information. The gardens depicted are unique and delightful and I enjoyed the homeowner insights. It was hard to separate my reactions - were the concepts covered well or was this a sentimental reading about a wonderful event? Probably a little of both.