Open Gardens in Western New York

BUFFALO

• The Garden of Bruce and Renee Adams:
  533 Auburn, Buffalo, NY 14222
  (Near Richmond in Elmwood village)
  Open Hours: 10:00am-2:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This urban site packs a lot of garden into a tiny plot. Containers, found objects, annuals, perennials, a unique two tier pond, even a hot tub; you won’t believe what delight can be squeezed into a small yard. Featured in Great Backyards and Buffalo Spree magazines and on YNN news. Easy Access, level ground.
  
  
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• The Garden of Lucinda Finley:
  815 W. Ferry Street, Buffalo, NY 14222
  (Delaware/Elmwood neighborhood near the corner of Delaware)
  Open Hours: 10:00am-2:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  Architecturally significant Duane Lyman designed, side-by-side double, large stucco and brick city home. The front gardens are English style, with beds of mixed perennials, shrubs, and specimen trees. Many unusual varieties of perennials are featured, with something always in bloom. The rear gardens feature a secluded brick patio with a fountain and containers brimming with colorful annuals. Featured in Great Backyards Magazine 2009. Repeat Buffalo in Bloom winner for many consecutive years. Featured in Garden Walk Buffalo book. Easy access, level ground.
  
  
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• The Garden of Joe Hopkins & Scott Dunlap:
  84 Sixteenth Street, Buffalo, NY 14213
  (Sixteenth near York in the Cottage District)
  Open Hours: 10:00am-2:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This garden is a lush mix of colorful annuals and perennials. Highlights include a15-foot high clematis, unique textures and artwork. Photographed for national and local magazines, and featured on several local news broadcasts.
  
  
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• The Garden of Stephen Bellus:
  191 Lancaster Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222
  (between Delaware Ave & Elmwood Ave)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This 1892 Victorian home is set in the Elmwood village with smaller Buffalo-style gardens front and back. The front is sunny, mixing grasses, yucca and more traditional plantings. The backyard is a quiet, urban oasis: Shady, dominated in hosta set in large, lake stone bordered beds. Rustic artwork, stone and found items are mixed throughout the beds for interest.
  
  
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• The Garden of Jim & Leslie Charlier:
  215 Lancaster Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
  (between Elmwood and Delaware, one house in from Elmwood)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  The garden has a grassless front yard and apple espalier, diamond-shaped dwarf pear espalier, a raised-bed French potager garden, columnar apple tree, gingko biloba, river birch, royal purple smoke tree, bamboo, a Harry Potter Garden as well as a patio and multi-level deck and spa, all fit into a small city yard. A lightning-shaped lightning rod tops the turreted 1897 Dutch Colonial home. The garden has appeared in Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Great Backyards, People Places Plants, and, oddly enough, the Chinese language version of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Buffalo in Bloom award 2005-2011. Easy access, level ground.
  
  
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• The Garden of Alec Humann:
  72 Lancaster Avenue, Buffalo, NY
  (at the corner of Lancaster and Melbourne)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  Front yard features well-established mixed perennial berm garden. Inside the fence is a small, naturalized pond set amidst a semi-formal design space featuring clipped boxwood and rose arbor.
  
  
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• The Garden of Annabelle Irey & James Locke:
  75 Lancaster Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
  (off of Delaware Ave, near Gates Circle)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  Perennials and annuals complement this Victorian home with gardens on all four sides. White picket fence surrounds the main garden known as Mary’s Garden with crushed brick path and a pond. A large collection of dahlias and containers with an interesting variety of plants, including tropicals and flowering vines. Features also include a shade garden, an English border and interesting hardscape. Featured in numerous magazines including People, Places and Plants (spring 07), BH & G’s Garden Ideas and Outdoor living (summer 08), Great Gardens, Solutions for Small Places (Jan. 08), Containers Made Easy (08), Great Backyards (09), Garden Gate and the Garden Walk Book. Easy access, wheelchair accessible.
  
  
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• The Garden of Dennis & Elizabeth Horrigan:
  17 St. Catherines Court, Buffalo, NY 14222
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This garden grows on land that was once part of the historic former Albright Estate. It features a lovely assortment of perennials, annuals and specimen trees. A fountain and statuary offer additional interest.
  
  
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• The Garden of Gordon Ballard & Brian Olinski:
  604 Bird Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
  Open Hours: 6:00pm-9:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This is an eclectic garden and entertaining space anchored by a 3000 gallon pond in front and a large tiki bar entertaining area in the back. Many unusual perennials and shrubs, containers, grasses and specimen trees. A shade garden and a rockery with the addition of outdoor aquaponics and the extensive vegetable garden in the driveway. This garden has been featured in local and national publications, television and the web. And is a Buffalo in Bloom winner. Easy access, level ground.
  
  
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• The Garden of Carol Siracuse and Tom Palamuso:
  39 Granger Place, Buffalo, NY 14222
  (In Elmwood Village between Bird Ave and Forest Ave)
  Open Hours: 6:00pm-9:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  A sunny front yard garden sharing blooms (perennials, annuals, bulbs) all season with the neighborhood. Small city backyard, every inch designed and nurtured to create an outdoor sanctuary with shade and partial shade plantings, waterfall and pond, pergola, paved paths and platform, one of a kind planters and trellises and creative fencing. Water reclamation system. Featured in Garden Gate (2007 and 2008 issues) and in Great Backyards. Buffalo in Bloom multiple award-winner.
  
  
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• The Garden of Alan Bigelow and Elizabeth Licata:
  56 North Pearl, Buffalo, NY 14202
  (Allentown, between Allen and Virginia)
  Open Hours: 6:00pm-9:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  This urban courtyard garden also has a front shade area, which has some interesting shrubs and shade perennials. In back there is a small pond, a fountain, a mural, and a large sculpture (both made by area artists). Plants include tropicals, annuals, several hydrangeas, perennials and many varieties of lilium. There are also climbing roses and vines, including clematis, wisteria, trumpet vine, Boston ivy, and climbing hydrangea. Featured in Great Backyards and a Buffalo in Bloom award winner since 2007 Easy access, Wheelchair/stroller accessible.
  
  
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• The Eight Paths Garden:
  278 Baynes, Buffalo, NY 14213
  (off of W. Delavan at Dorchester)
  Open Hours: 6:00pm-9:00pm on 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
  
  A garden that is semiformal on the sunny side and casual on the shady. Echoes of the East in a different design. Sri Krishna serenades and the koi are calm. Roses, clematis and irises hold sway on the north, while lilies strive to find a place. Hostas, ferns and hellebores dominate the south, but pulmonaria and tiarella can be found. Sedum and sweet woodruff maintain the middle. A place to contemplate or meditate.
  
  
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• The Garden of Ellie Dorritie:
  415 Summer Street, Buffalo NY 14213
  (Cottage District, near Allentown, between York St and Richmond Ave)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
  
  Tiny front cottage garden jammed to overflowing with flowers. Tiny back garden entirely on top of pavement—trees, annuals, perennials, shrubs, containers- enclosed by stone walls and brick path. Featured in Wall St Journal, Horticulture, Great Backyards, Backyard Retreat, People Places Plants, and the Garden Walk Book and DVD. Buffalo in Bloom award for three years in a row Easy access but rear garden not accessible to wheelchairs and strollers.
  
  
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• The Garden of Dinah Gamin and Lynn James:
  42 Orton Place, Buffalo, NY 14201
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
  
  1885 Queen Anne style home, pond with waterfall, golf green, specimen trees and shrubs. There are also native plants, a gazebo, a zen sand garden shade garden, and ornamental grasses. Featured in several national garden magazines: Great Backyards (2009), Backyard Solutions (2010, n. 130), People, Places, Plants (spring 07), and the Garden Walk book.
  
  
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• The Garden of Arlan Peters and Dom DeFillippo:
  20 Norwood Avenue, Elmwood Village, Buffalo NY 14222
  (Between Bryant and Summer)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
  
  An average sized city garden, planted front and back; shade plantings under large trees; interesting artifacts and structures including water feature, containers, a rock garden. A place of peace and tranquility. Buffalo in Bloom award winner. Easy access, wheelchair accessible.
  
  
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• The Garden of AIDS Community Services, Christopher Voltz:
  200 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201 (near Chippewa)
  Open Hours: 2:00pm-5:30pm on 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
  
  The “Hope Blossoms” Garden at The Victorian fills the back yard of this beautiful 1854 architectural gem. Built as a healing garden by and for people living with HIV, the garden incorporates many architectural elements salvaged during the restoration of the house, including a koi pond and waterfall constructed from salvaged sandstone and brick that is original to the home. Featured in Arts & Understanding (A & U) Magazine in 2010. Easy access.
  
  
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