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Could Buffalo's second biggest garden event happen in February? |
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The National Garden Festival could really use your support this year to help promote all the garden tours in the area, Open Gardens on Thursdays and Fridays, garden themed bus tours, talks & seminars and the Front Yard Contest between landscapers -- a complete makeover of an city block. And it'll be announcing a new kickoff event this year that you will NOT want to miss... |
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GW at Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex |
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 Garden Walk Buffalo made a restricted donation to the Martin House Complex back in 2007 to be used for the reconstruction of the clothes line poles restored in the gardens. The poles went
up in October 2011! Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright designed clothes line poles too.
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Visit Buffalo Niagara commissioned Ruth Diamond Market Research, Inc. for an intercept study, on site, in gardens of Garden Walk Buffalo this past year - focusing on attendees from outside of Erie and Niagara counties. Based on 574 attendees surveyed, 18% lived 50 miles or more, away from Buffalo. Below results refers to this 18% of out-of-town visitors: |
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Visit our "Buffalo style" gardens! |
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Garden Walk Buffalo is a free, self-guided tour of more than 370 Buffalo gardens, the largest garden tour in America. Held annually on the last weekend of July, in 2012 it will be Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"There are Japanese gardens, English gardens, Russian gardens (i.e., barely controlled wildernesses) and what I would call Buffalo gardens - eclectic, funky mixes in which found objects and exotic-looking surrounding rooftops figure prominently." - Atlantic.com
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Garden Walk front page and above the fold! |
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 The Buffalo News cover story Friday before the Walk morning...
Garden Walk draws big, green thumbs upPraises heaped as festival flowers
Atlantic magazine's website called it the "best event of its kind."
Martha Stewart Living suggested the host city may be the "epicenter of American horticulture."
And a gushing San Francisco Chronicle writer said, "It's more than a tour, it's a must-see event."
The notion that Buffalo and beauty go hand in hand may strike the uninitiated as heresy, but thanks to more than 340 volunteers, all of them avid amateur gardeners, that's the buzz being generated by this weekend's Garden Walk Buffalo.
"Buffalo has turned into the big time," said Richard Benfield, a professor at Central Connecticut State University and an expert on garden tourism. "At the end of the day, 50,000 people are coming to Buffalo to see your gardens." READ MORE>>
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The Buffalo News editorial by GW president |
Our generous gardeners make Buffalo a destination When you think of cities known for their gardens, do any names come to mind? Savannah? Seattle? Portland? That's precisely the area Buffalo could occupy in the minds of folks throughout the country. Don't laugh. We're making headway. READ MORE>>
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Garden Walk Buffalo helps fill hotels to maximum |
 Hotels in Buffalo near or at capacity
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Hotel business is booming in Buffalo this summer. Many inns are putting up their "no vacancy" signs.
The Adam's Mark is booked, and so is the Holiday Inn. The Hampton Inn and Suites is also filled to capacity Tuesday night.
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GW in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Kevin Kirkland, Homes, Real Estate & Garden Editor, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, (and a Buffalo native!) was in Buffalo for a visit and wrote this article, which appeared in the newspaper's Sunday, July 17 edition.
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