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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 helpsÊrejuvenateÊcity 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 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