WELCOME TO THE  JAPANESE GARDEN OF BUFFALO!!!
Learn more about the Cherry Blossom Festival 

www.cherryblossomfestivalofbuffalo.org

See our Buffalo Cherry Blossom Web Site!

NEW!!! First (EVER!) Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival

Think Spring!

It is winter today but surely spring follows and The Friends of the Japanese Garden are making plans for an eleven day event in the Japanese Garden and other spots around Buffalo where cherry blossoms bloom.  Check out all our plans on our new web site - www.buffalocherryblossomfestival.org



Garden Walk - We welcomed visitors from every where!

Folks came from all over to the Japanese Garden of Buffalo - The people posted included guests from China, Japan, Depew NY, Guatemala, and Williamsville and Buffalo.  Every one who passed this way was friendly, interested, impressed with the garden.It was a great weekend -the weather was cool, clear, basically perfect.

Join Us!

Be a Friend of the Japanese Garden of Buffalo!

Click on this link to give to the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy to support the Japanese Garden of Buffalo.

This Garden resonates peace and tranquility and is a Gem for our City.

Japanese Gardens require extra care and attention. 

Volunteer your time! 

Contribute in your special way!

Garden Walk of Buffalo - July 27 and 28

The Japanese Garden of Buffalo is the northern most garden on the map of our great local weekend garden event. Sat/Sun 9-5 July 27-28

  What is very cool about that fact is that we have a big parking lot at the top of the garden next to the Buffalo History Museum (corner Elmwood and Nottingham Terrace).  Shuttle buses will take guests (free) from The Japanese garden to other stops on the Garden Walk including headquarters where folks can get water and souvenirs.

We are still in need of a few volunteers to greet visiters in the garden.  We are asking people to take two hours to be in the garden as a friendly representative.  We will have informational brochures to hand to folks.  You could bring a picnic, sit in the shade and enjoy the wonerful visitors who love gardens.  Interested? e-mail tstern2@aol.com (Trudy)

Now that Sakura Season has passed, I'm dreaming of next year's show! Each year it seems even more beautiful. I can't help but to wonder what my children's children will say when they see these beautiful trees. Long Live the Cherry Blossom!

Ikebana Lesson

Azaleas, Heaven

Azaleas, Earth

White azaleas, Man

Laughter in between

 

Red dogwood with tiny buds

Clipped to make dynamic lines

Like drawing with an eraser

 

Then a lily in a kanzen

So dignified

It makes us gasp.

 

Metal grass

Manhattan trash

Entrapping tender peonies

This is free form

Ikebana

 

Ladies with their husband’s names

Are breaking all the rules

Flowers are their weapons

Space their golden key

Looking Forward - Looking Back Azalea Time Has Come

Cherry Blossoms almost gone
They fell like snow in Buffalo
Now azaleas take the stage
Hot pink across stone steps
And every green your can see
On graceful maple leaves

Saturday May 11th, 2013 Rain or Shine!  Cherry Blossom viewing day picnics.  We will host a sunrise time meditation sitting and walking at 7:00AM.  Then the garden will be showing us it's last spring blossoms all day.  If you want, bring a picnic or instruments or cameras or children or just come!  We will offering free docent tours at 1:00 and at 2:00.  This is a miraculous time of year.  Celebrate rain or shine.

Spring Cleaning Day

Spring Cleaning on a freezing morning at the Japanese Garden -Saturday April 20th.  Thanks to the many helpers and friends who came to help!

Clean Up Day - Spring!!!

Saturday April 20.  Check in at the Table on Hoyt Lake near Chapin.  We'll meet and go to work in the Japanese Garden or other Olmsted Places.  9AM start.  All morning.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Cherry Blossoms in

The Japanese Garden of Buffalo

Sunrise meditation in the garden – 7:00AM

Picnics – bring your own – 12:00 noon and on

Free docent tours of the Japanese Garden of Buffalo

at 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm

Meet at the bottom of stone steps near lantern:

www.japanesegardenofbuffalo.blogspot.com

hanami, is the Japanese spring tradition of having a party under sakura cherry trees during that brief moment that they’re in bloom. Bring a picnic and some friends. The Japanese Garden of Buffalo is located next to the Buffalo History Museum on Elmwood Ave and Nottingham Terrace. Park in the lot and find the cherry trees on the banks of Mirror Lake.