Buffalo-Style Gardens - Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs

This "one-of-a-kind, offbeat garden design book ... 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"--Publisher's description.

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INTRODUCTION: 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

Index

Info autore

Sally Cunningham is a horticulture professional, garden consultant, and head of the Great Garden Travel division of AAA of Western and Central New York. She conducts tours in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and speaks nationally on horticultural topics. She writes a weekly garden column for The Buffalo News and a monthly column for Buffalo Spree magazine. Cunningham and co-author Jim Charlier are leading figures in Buffalo’s “urban garden renaissance” and the much-lauded Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest private garden tour in America, averaging 65,000-plus visitors each year.

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.

Riassunto

Buffalo-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?

Prefazione

(From the INTRODUCTION)

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

P.S.: If you haven’t noticed by now, this is not going to be just another garden design book.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jim Charlier, Sally Cunningham, Cunningham Sally
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.02.2019
• EAN: 9781943366361
• ISBN: 978-1-943366-36-1
• Dimensioni: 203 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 680 g
• Illustrazioni: full color photos throughout
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; GARDENING / Garden Design, GARDENING / Landscape, GARDENING / Techniques, Garden design & planning, Gardening: plants, Specialized gardening methods, Landscape gardening, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Garden design and planning