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Virtual Wednesday Evenings: February 19, 2025 “2025 Garden Walk Buffalo – Sneak Peek!”
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Category: Virtual Lectures

2025 Garden Walk Buffalo – Sneak Peek!"

Speaker: Louise Clarke

Join Garden Walk veteran Louise Clarke for a colorful preview of the 31st annual Garden Walk in Buffalo, New York. With over 60,000 visitors and 400 open gardens, it is one of America’s oldest and the largest garden tours. This event encourages neighborhood beautification and promotes community pride. All participating gardens are free to visit and complimentary bus transportation is provided for neighborhood-hopping to maximize garden visit time. Grab a tour map and start strolling!

You’ll see examples of gardening “Buffalo Style” with creative repurposing of objects, containers stuffed with flowering annuals, tropical plants, billowing coleus masses, the obligatory hostas in every garden, perennials, a Harry Potter garden, fairy gardens, bowling pin sculptures, ponds, waterfalls, fountains, roof gardens, gazebos, completely lawn-less gardens, planted hell strips, and so much more. You will want to move to Buffalo, winter be damned, once you experience the captivating allure of Garden Walk Buffalo.

The 2025 Garden Walk Buffalo will take place Saturday & Sunday, July 26 & 27. More information at https://www.gardensbuffaloniagara.com/garden-walk-buffalo.

Speaker Bio: Louise Clarke is co-principal of Verdant Earth Educators, a green industry consulting and education firm. A former horticulturist from the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, she is a certified arborist holding credentials from the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), as well as a certified green roof professional (GRP).

Louise currently teaches Botany and Garden Appreciation courses at the Barnes Arboretum School of Horticulture of St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, as well as workshops and lectures for Longwood Gardens, Mt. Cuba Center, Tyler Arboretum, and other venues. She is active in Garden Communicators International and the North American Rock Garden Society.

Louise is a graduate of Temple University’s College of Environmental Design and has international gardening experience as a guest gardener for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Landscape in Windsor, UK.

This Zoom program is free to all HPS/MAG Members. $15 for Non-members. Registration is required. This event will be recorded and will be available for registrants to watch for just 2 weeks following the lecture.

Click here to register for this virtual event.  The deadline to register is February 16th.

Click here if you would like to become a member of HPS/MAG before registering for this event.

Please make sure you have Zoom installed on your computer. Plan to join 5 minutes before the start time. The talk will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Questions can be submitted via chat box and will be read to the speaker by the HPS/MAG moderator. Please note that all participants will be muted for the duration of the event.

Important Info regarding registration: Please make sure you hit the "submit" button after registering on-line. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, then the registration process was not completed.

Contact: Nora Sirbaugh at [email protected]