By Doug Draper
The not-for-profit group from Buffalo that brings our greater Niagara region the largest neighbourhood gardening tour on the continent every year is ushering in spring with the opening of an online store.
Garden Walk Buffalo will use proceeds from the online sale of books, tote bags, hats and other items – just as it always had when the items were sold off tables during the annual July weekend event – to support the event itself and grants that contribute to the beautification of neighbourhoods in the city.
This year’s Garden Walk Buffalo is scheduled for Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25, rain or shine, and is the city’s 16th since a small group of volunteers launched the first one in 1995. The event is free and self-guided, and now features more than 300 gardens at homes, businesses and public park areas stretching north from Buffalo’s downtown area, through the historic Allentown neighbourhood, all the way to Delaware Park.
The Garden Walk not only provides and opportunity to visit great gardens and the people who grow them. It is also a great chance to experience, close up and friendly, so many of the great old neighbourhoods and classic architecture Buffalo has to offer. Niagara At Large will post more on this even, which has already been celebrated in such popular magazines as Martha Stewart Living and Fine Gardening, as the weekend it takes place draws closer.
In the meantime, you can find out more about the new online store and how to visit it, and about Garden Walk Buffalo in general, just by reading the information below. Continue reading →