Description
Book SynopsisBuffalo-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 yours: your own unforgettable Buffalo-style garden.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Buffalo Style: a New Kind of Garden…livable, relatable, original, free spirited PART 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
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