Garden Variety departs today for Buffalo and a meet-up of some 70 garden bloggers and writers that happily coincides with the city's annual Garden Walk, which is becoming quite the sensation.

The self-guided tour of more than 350 gardens, in its third year, might be the largest of its kind in the country and last year more than 45,000 visited the gardens. It is such a success that it has been expanded to a month-loing event, with tours, seminars and concerts.

Garden writers, bloggers, authors and horticultural people from 22 states and Canada will be in Buffalo this weekend, and we will all be posting pictures and comments about the gardens we visit, beginning this evening at the home of host Elizabeth Licata, who writes for the popular Garden Rant blog.

You can follow my end-of-day posts here on Garden Variety, but I will also be posting photos on my Facebook page and Tweeting about what I see during the tours.  

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