Another first for Buffalo and another festival to add to our growing list… does this make us the festival capital of the country yet? This festival is a bit different though as it runs from June 18th to July 25th and incorporates The Garden Walk along with 16 other Western New York garden walks. I had no idea that the count had grown to sixteen. The ‘umbrella’ festival touts our signature Garden Walk as “the largest event of its size in the country.
The announcement for the National Buffalo Garden Festival is taking place tomorrow at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens (inside the Panama Cloud Forest Pavilion @ 10am). It will be interesting to see how the organizers are going to be able to keep the event schedule ongoing for such a long duration… it will also be interesting to see how many of the local green thumb organizations will be brought into the loop. At this point, the festival committee has alluded to attempting to package and promote a series of “nationally-recognized speakers, weekday open gardens, garden party bus tours, a front yard garden contest, special events, seminars and workshops.”