Author: Jim Charlier

Jim Charlier is an advertising designer/photographer/crafter with a serious gardening problem. He's co-written a garden design book featuring the funky, quirky and fun gardens by the gardeners of Buffalo titled "Buffalo-Style Gardens: Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs" (BuffaloStyleGardens.com); he writes a long-standing garden blog (ArtofGardening.org); led the largest garden tour in America, Garden Walk Buffalo; has written for, or provided photography for dozens of magazines and books; has made presentations and participated in panel discussions on garden design and garden tourism nationally and internationally.

by Jim Charlier 04/02/2023 0

Buffalo Garden garden art

Leaf it to me…

It seemed a shame to have a print or two put in our guest room, and then the rest of the photos end up sitting on a hard drive in my office, unseen and unloved for eternity. I decided to dip my toe into the water of on-demand printing…

by Jim Charlier 01/28/2023 4

Les Jardins d’Étretat

We’ve been to France about a dozen times over the years, but we’d never been to Normandy. We knew weContinue Reading

by Jim Charlier 07/27/2022 1

Buffalo Garden Tour visit

Garden Walk Buffalo – Off the Beaten Path

Here’s a list of gardens I made for this year – gardens a bit off the beaten path.

by Jim Charlier 07/20/2021 0

Buffalo Garden garden art Tour visit

Garden Walk Buffalo garden gems

There’s plenty of “showy” gardens. Here’s a few of the quieter ones…

by Jim Charlier 07/06/2021 2

Buffalo Garden DIY garden art

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by Jim Charlier 05/12/2021 3

Buffalo Garden Great Plant

How I tulip

I get asked how we get such good looking tulips in our front yard.

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“Buffalo-Style Gardens” Book

Purchase a book here and I'll send you a signed copy today! "Buffalo-Style Gardens: Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs" is a hardcover, 224-page, offbeat garden design book showcasing the wildly inventive gardens and gardeners of Buffalo – and offers readers “the best of the best” ideas to use in their own small-space gardens. CANNOT MAIL TO CANADA $24.99 plus $5 Shipping & Handling to U.S. destinations only, and 8.75% NYS Sales Tax =

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Garden Walk Buffalo book

“Garden Walk Buffalo” Book

120-page, sumptuous, soft-cover coffee table book that captured the best of America's largest garden tour from 2005. Includes a bonus DVD of gardener interviews. Interviews of gardeners and tour highlights. Written by Elizabeth Licata, photographed by Don Zinteck, designed by Jim Charlier. 2005, City of Light Publishing. CANNOT MAIL TO CANADA $24.99 plus $5 Shipping & Handling to U.S. destinations only, and 8.75% NYS Sales Tax

$32.18