On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA October-November 2016 | Page 8

Buffalo: Think Summer Blooms in
Eclectic Gardens, not Winter Snow!

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B Y S A L LY C U N N I N G H A M
At the Atlanta
conference, I talked
a little about Buffalo,
New York, and the
tours and sights
we will share with
GWA members next
summer. For those
that weren’t there
(or were focused on
other matters) here’s
a hint of why you’ll want to attend 2017 GWA
convention.
As a gardening city, Buffalo has developed
an original persona over the last 23 years. That’s
when 19 neighbors in West-Central Buffalo said, “Let’s share our gardens with
each other,” and a garden walk was
born. It grew to 56 participants,
then 95, and by its 23rd year,
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