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Buffalo-Style Gardens: Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs
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Overview
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 yours: your own unforgettable Buffalo-style garden.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781943366361 |
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Publisher: | St. Lynn's Press |
Publication date: | 02/22/2019 |
Pages: | 224 |
Sales rank: | 412,143 |
Product dimensions: | 8.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Jim Charlier is an award-winning marketing and design professional. An avid gardener, garden photographer, and garden tourism advocate, he consults with gardening organizations across the U.S. He is co-founder and vice president of Gardens Buffalo Niagara, coordinating 20 community garden tours and 75 regional Open Gardens – including the centerpiece event, Garden Walk Buffalo. In total, these garden events attract upwards of 100,000 visitors each summer. His own highly original Buffalo garden has appeared in many books, magazines, tours and on television.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Buffalo Style: a New Kind of Garden…livable, relatable, original, free spiritedPART ONE: Secrets of one-of-a-kind, unforgettable gardens, Buffalo-style!
Chapter 1: Other People’s Gardens: what you can learn from a garden walk
Chapter 2: Great Little Gardens and How They Grew
Chapter 3: Good Garden Design (in the beginning…)
PART TWO: You and Your Site
Chapter 4: What Do You Want Your Garden To Be?
Chapter 5: What Does Your Garden Want To Be? (your site’s challenges and opportunities)
PART THREE: The Bones of Your Unforgettable Garden (design features that make all the difference)
Chapter 6: Set the Stage (Frame it!): walls, hedges, fences and more
Chapter 7: The Big Bones: immovable objects
Chapter 8: Find Your Path: lines, contours, walkways
PART FOUR: Let’s Decorate! (making it personal)
Chapter 9: Furniture and Hardscape Define Your Style
Chapter 10: Art, Collections & Themes
Chapter 11: And Now We Choose Plants!
PART FIVE: Gardening for the Greater Good: from the neighborhood to the world
Chapter 12: Gardening is Transformative…and Contagious
Appendix Destination public gardens; U.S. private garden tour listings; Recommended reading
Index
What People are Saying About This
“In Buffalo-Style Gardens, Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier describe a gardening creativity that is like no other: lush, urban, funky, welcoming, and – always – unexpected." – Elizabeth Licata, editor, Buffalo Spree magazine; contributing writer, GardenRant.com
"Buffalo-Style Gardens is a joyful tour through the offbeat, artistic, handmade sensibility that has put this hip, hardscrabble, urban community on the horticulture map." – Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and The Kopp Sisters novels; co-founder, GardenRant.com
“All garden lovers should have a trip to Garden Walk Buffalo on their bucket list. But whether you get there or not, Buffalo-Style Gardens belongs on your bookshelf or table.” – C.L. Fornari, author of The Cocktail Hour Garden; gardenlady.com
“Buffalo-Style Gardens will inspire the gardener in you, to be sure, but it will also inspire your admiration for individuals and a community that have created North America’s premier garden event.” - Harry Jongerden, Executive Director, Toronto Botanical Garden
“Who would have thought Buffalo would be the epicenter of a new wave of American gardening? In this idea-inducing new book you’re sure to find plenty to ‘borrow’ in your own gardens.” - George Weigel, garden book author, columnist, designer
“Buffalo-style gardens are unique in the gardening world and this book captures them. Read, smile, absorb and make these ideas your own.” - Kathy and Mike Shadrack, authors of The Book of Little Hostas
Preface
A New Kind of Garden: livable, relatable, original, free-spirited
The first inspirations for this book were some very special residential gardens in Buffalo, New York, home of the largest garden tour in North America: Garden Walk Buffalo. How did it grow to be such a large and talked-about event? It didn’t happen overnight. It took twenty-some years to get that good, that original. During those years a new kind of garden was evolving, with a particular set of characteristics. They were all lush and traditional enough to be called fine gardens but also quirky enough to spark a new term: a Buffalo-style garden.
No matter the size or style, each one had its own kind of welcoming energy and a unique personality that spoke volumes about its creators. No cookie cutter landscapes here. Every garden was built and tended by the gardeners themselves. These are approachable, relatable, livable environments that bring a smile and warm the heart.
We (Sally and Jim) are keenly aware that unforgettable gardens occur in other places too. Both of us are gardeners ourselves, and observers of the garden tourism phenomenon far and wide – in Europe as well as North America. We have often talked about the common denominators: What makes some gardens unforgettable? Could we bottle it and sell it, or explain it to others?
We knew we could, and the best way to start was with those extraordinary, (mostly) small, astonishingly creative gardens of Buffalo.
Finding Your Inner Buffalo
You’re about to meet some highly individual gardens and the gardeners who created them. Different approaches, different sensibilities, no two remotely alike. You might ask, if these gardens are all so unique, how can there be a Buffalo style?
Well, that’s just the point: These homeowners weren’t designing “by the book.” They weren’t professionals – some had never gardened before. But the common design thread connecting the hundreds of gardens of Garden Walk Buffalo is the individual artistic sense of the gardeners, their way of personalizing an outdoor space, their love of the objects and plants they bring to it. And their deep respect for the environment.
For this book we’ll show you how they achieved their memorable gardens – not always intentional, often hit and miss and try again. These gardeners seem to intuitively understand certain design and artistic rules. They played with their space, with colors and shapes; they found creative ways to overcome challenges, like a neighbor’s ugly garage wall or a large tree in the "wrong place." Most of all, they loved making something just their own that gave them joy. And they demonstrated for the thousands of visitors to their gardens how heart, persistence and go-for-it experimentation can make a garden fabulous even when it’s not exactly "by the book."
Now let’s look in on some of these Buffalo-style gardens and see how their owners did it. In these pages you’ll find lots of inspiration, design and horticulture tips, and practical how-to’s for tapping into your inner Buffalo. May it roam free as you create your own uniquely wonderful garden!
Sally and Jim