Capen Garden Walk

Capen Garden Walk Annual Garden Walk in mid July to showcase gardens in the University District and neighborhoods surrounding the South campus of the University at Buffalo.

Semi annual Plant and Seed Exchange
Christine Brooks Garden Grant The Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk, started in 2002 with 24 gardens and was named to honor the first salaried Chancellor of the University at Buffalo. This annual event showcases gardens in the neighborhoods surrounding the University’s South Campus, including the University District of Buffalo, Eggertsville, Amherst and the Town of To

nawanda. Capen Garden Walk is designed to encourage neighborhood beautification, collaboration and to build strong communities.

2022 marks the 21th year of the Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk, a free self-guided tour of more than 70 private gardens and carefully nurtured public spaces. Our Walk is scheduled annually in mid July. We also sponsor Spring and Fall Plant and Seed Exchanges. The Christine H. Brooks Garden Grant is awarded to new and experienced gardeners to start or enhance a garden bed which is visible to the public.

This is it! Saturday May, 16. Bring a plant/take a plant. Potted house plants for sale. Order a Capen T-shirt.
05/16/2026

This is it! Saturday May, 16. Bring a plant/take a plant. Potted house plants for sale. Order a Capen T-shirt.

Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk is ramping up for a big splash in July. Save the date of the Plant and Seed Exchange and hou...
04/27/2026

Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk is ramping up for a big splash in July. Save the date of the Plant and Seed Exchange and house plant sale on May 16 and plan to buy a t-shirt. Order forms at Ourheights.org/capen-garden-walk.

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04/14/2026

Happy National Gardening Day!

Just two days to apply for the Brooks Garden Grant.
03/30/2026

Just two days to apply for the Brooks Garden Grant.

Capen Garden Walk Samuel P. Capen was the first full-time, salaried Chancellor at the University at Buffalo. The Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk began in 2002 with 24 gardens, in an effort to showcase the neighborhoods surrounding the University at Buffalo South campus which includes the University Dis...

You can have one of your own. Go to Ourheights.org/capen-garden-walk
03/30/2026

You can have one of your own. Go to Ourheights.org/capen-garden-walk

Applications for Brooks Garden Grants due now. Deadline March 31. See Brooks Garden Grant on Facebook for details.
03/11/2026

Applications for Brooks Garden Grants due now. Deadline March 31. See Brooks Garden Grant on Facebook for details.

03/04/2026

We've had a full house at our first few workshops of the season, and there are EVEN MORE on the way! Announcing part two of the What's Growing On workshop series, presented with our friends at Massachusetts Avenue Project and Urban Roots!

Tickets are on a sliding scale, starting at $5, and available for purchase online at bit.ly/wintergardeningworkshops.

What should you do in your garden now?Kindness for All Living BeingsFebruary 8 at 4:11 PM ·Every February, a warm spell...
02/10/2026

What should you do in your garden now?
Kindness for All Living Beings
February 8 at 4:11 PM
·
Every February, a warm spell tricks people into "spring cleaning" their gardens. 55°F feels like summer after weeks of cold. You grab the rake, the clippers, the leaf blower.
And you destroy thousands of lives that are 3 weeks away from waking up.
WHAT'S HIDING IN YOUR "MESSY" YARD RIGHT NOW:
🐝 NATIVE BEE QUEENS are hibernating in hollow plant stems you're about to cut. 70% of native bees nest in the ground or in dead stems. Cut them now and you eliminate an entire pollination workforce before it starts.
🦋 CHRYSALISES are attached to dead plant stalks, fence posts, and under bark flaps. They look like dried leaves or small bumps. When you snap dead stems and toss them in the yard waste bin, the butterflies go with them.
🐸 TOADS are buried 2-4 inches in loose garden soil. They won't emerge until soil temperature hits 50°F consistently. One pass with a rototiller in February kills every toad in the bed.
🐛 BENEFICIAL INSECT EGGS are laid on the undersides of dead leaves, in bark crevices, and on dried flower stems. Lacewings, hoverflies, parasitic wasps — the insects that eat your aphids — are overwintering as eggs in the mess.
THE RULE: DO NOT CUT, RAKE, OR CLEAN GARDEN BEDS UNTIL NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES STAY ABOVE 50°F FOR A FULL WEEK.
In most of the USA, that's late April to mid-May. Not February. Not March.
That warm day this week is a trap. Your garden isn't ready. The insects, amphibians, and pollinators inside it are still sleeping.
Let them sleep.

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