Another Buffalo garden gets featured in a national gardening magazine. This time, 39 Granger Place, the front and back yard of architect Carol Siracuse & interior designer Tom Palamuso, is covered in the May/June 2008 issue of
Garden Gate Magazine.
The article, by Garden Gate associate editor Jim Childs, is about the purpose and design of front yard gardens vs. backyard gardens. Photos in the article are by Garden Gate senior photographer David C. McClure.
What you’ll get from the six-page spread.
Through the use of seven photos and two illustrated maps across the six-page spread, the writer points out design tips to create energetic and
Front garden is colorful & lively - and hard to miss.
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welcoming front yards that change throughout the season as well as highlighting design ideas in Carol & Tom’s backyard that make it a private, comfortable urban retreat.
Features of their garden include a wisteria-covered pergola for dining, a waterfall and small pond (although I saw Carol in church last Sunday and she said
part of the waterfall wall fell this past the winter, Tom was working on repairing it – don’t tell
Garden Gate!), a potting bench, curved paths of bluestone pavers, view-obscuring plantings for privacy and curb-side gardens for the neighborhood’s enjoyment.
Backyard intrigues with many corners to turn and multiple ares to entertain/dine/read.
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Carol & Tom met after each had lost a spouse. The process of planning and creating this garden happened when they started as friends and lasted through
their courtship. In Carol’s words, “
Together we have created a wonderful restful backyard city garden sanctuary, and a flourishing, colorful, ever-changing front yard garden painting/sculpture for all who pass to watch and enjoy through the seasons. We have also created a relationship. The garden as relationship. The garden as love.” Gardening together is a great way to learn about a partner – likes and dislikes, the way they think, the way they work. Carol says, “The garden room became the fabric for our growing affection.” How sexy is THAT?
A garden as a story. Tom designed & built a chic, urban waterfall & pond inset in the bluestone-paved patio – not attempting to create a faux rural-pond that would look out of place in their city setting.
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I like to think of every garden as a personal story of its
Their garden was the basis of the watercolor artwork on the 2007 Garden Walk Buffalo poster.
Watercolor by Dana Jenkins.
Poster design by Sue Hough,
gardener. Carol & Tom’s I will now think of forever as representing their relationship, growing and changing each year. Its design is how they came to know each other. Its maintaining they do as a couple.
There’s almost 300 other stories
Carol & Tom’s garden has been on the Garden Walk for years and they are ardent supporters of the Walk. They have a wonderful, well-thought-out garden that is welcoming and unique to them. There are almost 300 other stories to visit during the two days of Garden Walk Buffalo.
What’s your garden’s story?
