The Buffalo News cover story Friday before the Walk morning...

Garden Walk draws big, green thumbs up

Praises 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>>