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Release: Garden
Walk Buffalo Read
the Book - Experience the DVD This
large-format, high-quality, soft-cover volume offers 120 pages of words and pictures
that capture the best of Garden Walk Buffalo. More than 225 beautiful photographs
capture highlights of all 260+ gardens on the Walk, while sidebars on the architecture
and history of these exceptional neighborhoods explain their unique ambiance.
New and fascinating aspects of Garden Walk are illuminated, including behind-the-scenes
stories of how the gardeners prepare for the annual weekend deluge of thousands
of visitors. The
book includes interviews with 27 gardeners, as well as photos of more than 80
additional gardens. There is a photo section for the gardens of Frederick Law
Olmsted's Delaware Park, a spread on community gardens, a list of selected plants
grown in Western New York (Zone 5), a history of Garden Walk Buffalo and its impact
on local urban gardens and how it helps rejuvenate city streets, and
even a brief bit on how to start your own garden walk. But
there’s only so much a book can do to depict an experience as interactive
as Garden Walk. With the addition of the DVD, still pictures start to move and
the viewer moves with them. Follow the cameras of our videographers as they walk
through gardens and talk to the master gardeners who have created these exceptional
spaces. All that’s missing is the scent of the flowers. By
simply selecting a dot the Garden Walk map, access more than 20 individual interviews
with gardeners, who drop great hints on all aspects of gardening -- from individual
plants to overall garden design.
Garden
Walk Buffalo is of the largest garden tours in the nation. More than 260 private
Buffalo gardens open to the public the last weekend of July each year. Participants
in the Walk see some of Buffalo’s most beautiful and creative urban gardens.
Garden Walk has become one of Western New York’s most anticipated summer
events. Garden Walk Buffalo has also been a major force in neighborhood revitalization,
encouraging residents to combat urban blight through grassroots beautification.
It is also significant that this book documents and preserves for posterity many
of the gardens, parkway circles and old growth trees of Buffalo prior to the damage
incurred during the devastating storm of October, 2006. This
beautiful book was photographed by Don Zinteck, of Photographics2; written
by Elizabeth Licata, editor of Buffalo Spree magazine; and designed by
Jim Charlier, of JCharlier Communication design. The DVD was produced by Cheryl
Jackson and Brian Milbrand. The book and DVD are published by Buffalo Heritage
Unlimited, which also published Classic Buffalo (under the Canisius College
Press imprint) and which will soon release Oakland Place: Gracious Living
in Buffalo. The book was printed by Digicon and the DVD was pressed by Eastco
Multimedia. Garden
Walk Buffalo books and DVDs are available online at http://www.buffaloheritage.com/books.html and
at a growing number of Buffalo area bookstores, garden shops, florists and gift
shops.
The
Book/DVD set costs $40 The
Book is $30 The
DVD is $15 Cartons
of Book/DVD sets (12 books and DVDs) are $360 + tax (that's a 25% discount --
only $30 per set!) A
limited number of signed, hardcover, collector’s editions of the book and
DVD are available for $75. For
more books from Buffalo Heritage Unlimited, visit www.buffaloheritage.com For
more information on Garden Walk Buffalo, visit www.gardenwalkbuffalo.com | | |
