Cunningham - Buffalo-Style Gardens

Praise for

Buffalo-Style Gardens

Who better than Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier to show me (and you) the best Buffalo-style gardens and explain what makes them work and how we can create that same style in our own yards. If you cant shuffle off to Buffalo, this book is the next best thing.

~ Kathy Purdy, ColdClimateGardening.com

Leave behind your preconceived notions of what a garden should beand dive into a world of gardens full of color, discoveries, textures and the good neighbors that build them.

~ Tomas Herrera-Mishler, President & CEO, Balboa Park, San Diego

By turns quirky, fun and inspiring, this book is a roadmap to designing gardens from the heart.

~ Susan Morrison, landscape designer and author of The Less is More Garden

Buffalo-Style Gardens will introduce you to new possibilities in plant combinations and colorful backdrops, ways to incorporate art, and ideas for how to repurpose everyday items into your landscape.

~ Teresa Watkins, landscape designer, author, A Gardeners Compendium Vol. 1 and 2

Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier know gardening and design and best of all, they articulate it in a form that both gardening enthusiasts and landscapers can put immediately to use.

~ Carolyn A. Stanko, CNLP, Horticulture Program Coordinator and Associate Professor, Niagara County Community College

This wonderful book demonstrates that there are no longer rules about what constitutes a beautiful, healthy garden. Almost anything goes, as it rightly should.

~ Barbara Ballinger and Michael Glassman, co-authors, The Garden Bible

Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier splendidly share the eclectic and unconventional approaches to gardening and design that make Buffalo gardens so memorable.

~ Kylee Baumle, author, The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly

Sally and Jim are the perfect gardeners to show us all how to create our own Buffalo-style garden no matter where we live.

~ Carol Michel, author, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life

Take inspiration from a community of gardeners who have inspired each other to reassess what the outdoor areas of our homes can mean and how they can feel. I cant wait to pick up a few pointers myself.

~ Rochelle Greayer, garden designer, founder-editor, PITH + VIGOR

Along with fellow Master Gardeners and so many associates in the greater gardening community, I am excited to have this book. It captures gardening good sense plus design and art inspiration a book to savor, enjoy and treasure!

~ Linda Garwol, Master Gardener; Director, Buffalo in Bloom

I have fallen under the spell of the properties Ive seen on Garden Walk Buffalo, and I cant wait to bring some of the delightful essence of Buffalo-Style Gardens into my own space.

~ Tara Nolan, author, Raised Bed Revolution; co-owner of SavvyGardening.com

Sally Cunningham invited me to Buffalo to see some gardens. She introduced Jim Charlier and they led me down the Buffalo-style garden path. I was enthralled. Now Jim and Sally have produced this wonderful book about creating such gardens and its as different and delightful as those gardens.

~ Kenneth C. Brown, garden writer, speaker; DallyingInTheDirt.com

Who wouldve thought Buffalo would be the epicenter of a new wave in American gardening? In this idea-inducing new book youre sure to find plenty to borrow for your own gardens.

~ George Weigel, garden author, columnist, designer, speaker

Praise for

Garden Walk Buffalo and Buffalo-style

The Buffalo-style garden is an original American contribution to landscape design.

~ Allan Becker, garden designer, GardenGuruMontreal.ca

Buffalo-style Garden Its a thing. Each garden has one thing in common: a uniquely personal feel that is not always present in garden-tour gardens.

~ Marianne Willburn, SmallTownGardener.com

I dont live in Buffalo, New York, but I sure wish I did after falling hopelessly in love with its romantic Buffalo-style gardens personable, clever, and enchanting. My imagination soars to bring that philosophy to my garden 1500 miles away.

~ Linda Lehmusvirta, producer, Central Texas Gardener, PBS

I couldnt get over how many eye-catching gardens were in each neighborhood; all on tiny city lots, and each was unique Each communitys neighborhoods of gardens brought people together, whether it was a passerby stopping to admire them or neighbors connecting and relaxing together on a summer evening.

~ Susan Mulvihill, SusansInTheGarden.com

I always point to the City of Buffalo as a destination that has transformed back, front and side yard gardens into tourist attractions with Garden Walk Buffalo proof that you do not have to have a Longwood Gardens as an attraction in your community, to be a garden tourism destination.

~ Michel Gauthier, Executive Director, Canadian Garden Council, managing the International Garden Tourism Network and Canadas Garden Route

We sometimes need to be reminded that plants, gardens, and gardening are important to people. Not just to a few people, but to hundreds of thousands who enjoy the creativity and therapy of working in the dirt. Thank you, Buffalo, for providing us with that reminder!

~ Allan Armitage, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture, University of Georgia

Garden Walk Buffalo adds value to communities. Not just economic value found in how much a house is worth, but also social value and cultural value.

~ Randolph Hohle, Associate Professor, Sociology, State University of New York at Fredonia

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.

~ Andrew Sprung, theatlantic.com

Buffalo-Style

GARDENS

Buffalo-Style

GARDENS

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

SALLY CUNNINGHAM JIM CHARLIER

Buffalo-Style Gardens

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

Copyright 2019 by Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes.

ISBN-13: 978-1-943366-36-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957981

CIP information available upon request

First Edition, 2019

St. Lynns Press . POB 18680 . Pittsburgh, PA 15236

412.466.0790 . www.stlynnspress.com

Book design Holly Rosborough

Editor Catherine Dees

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