Joe’s Exuberant Buffalo Garden

Bold, creative gardening in a small space

Today we ’re in Buffalo , New York , chitchat with Joe Hopkins .

We ’ve visited with Joe before ( vividness - Blind Plant Combinations ) . He garden on asmall , urban lotand is partly color blind , but he turns those likely trouble into force with fearlesscolor combinationsand using innumerable pots to transform a paved driveway into more garden space . In addition to over a hundred pots filled with plants , he also get originative with untraditional container , including twelve different foam wigging anatomy turned into planters !

It ’s hard to believe all this space is actually a driveway!Massing passel togetherwith some chairs , tables , and even a lamp transform this blank blank into a garden .

There are no heyday in sight among this clump of good deal — only incredible colour from a across-the-board array of leafage .

This space is a full - onliving room outside , with plants threatening to take back up all the furniture , making it a lush jungle experience .

A bit of the blacktop driveway is exposed — before it vanishes under a rampart of industrial plant in potty .

Buffalo garden are famous for their cheerful , creative takes on garden excogitation . This is sure enough a choice example , with froth wigging form metamorphose into plantation owner .

Choosing asucculentplant for a nontraditional container like this works well , because the small amount of filth will dry out out quickly .

A little paint , some over - the - top dark glasses , and a mountain ofsedumfor hair

An explosion of blueornamental grassmakes a hairstyle for this yellow wig head .

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