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succulent garden by Opportunities Unlimited

How to make a cactus garden– without hurting your fingers!

Learn lots of great tips– including how to handle cactus without getting the thorns in your fingers– in the great video above. Bob Bracikowski of Opportunities Unlimited demonstrates how to make a cactus and succulent garden. He covers plant selection, design and decorative touches and gives lots of great tips along the way. You can learn how to make other planters and arrangements with Bracikowski during hands-on seminars for the public at the Niagara Floral Center and Greenhouse at Opportunities…...

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Aug 7, 2012

Job at Botanical Gardens, better tomatoes in the future & more

Botanical Gardens seeks full-time education coordinator The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Society, Inc. is seeking a qualified individual for the full time position of education coordinator. The qualified individual should be creative, innovative, highly motivated and have a love for education, science and the environment. Candidates should possess superior organizational skills, and understand how to create and execute lesson plans. This individual should have a passion for working with children of all ages and abilities as well as…...

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Jul 31, 2012

New garden walk debuts in West Seneca, watering tips & more

Brand new garden walk begins this year in West Seneca The West Seneca Garden Walk will take place for the first time from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22. Get the map right here, and maps will also be available on the Burchfield Nature & Art Center website. You can pick up paper maps at Ebenezer Greenhouse, 1347 Union Rd., West Seneca. The West Seneca Garden Walk is being organized by Sharon and Dave…...

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Jul 10, 2012

Murray Brothers staff at Front Yard Garden Competition in Buffalo NY

Front Yard Contest is under way near Riverside Park in Buffalo

The National Garden Festival’s neighborhood-transforming Front Yard Contest kicked off yesterday on Crowley Avenue in Buffalo, bordering the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Riverside Park. Professional landscapers, Master Gardeners and teams from the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy are donating their time and materials to give 15 homeowners free garden makeovers. This Front Yard Contest is part of third annual National Garden Festival. Organizers believe it is the only such civic-minded garden competition in the country. You can view the landscaping work in…...

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Jul 10, 2012

Canadian, U.S. gardens celebrate two centuries of peace

Tomorrow is Independence Day, the day when Americans mark the independence they won after the Revolutionary War. But just a few years after that, the young nation fought another war with Great Britain, the War of 1812. Because Canada was a colony of Great Britain, it was swept into the fighting. The War of 1812 was the last time the United States and Canada fought one another. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and…...

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Jul 3, 2012

Sweet corn is early this year & sign up now for bus tours of gardens

Sweet corn and bus tours have nothing to do with each other except that you should hurry to take advantage of both while they’re available! Get sweet corn now Sweet corn is already available at Goodman’s Farm Market, 2227 Cayuga Dr. Ext., Niagara Falls, NY. Normally, the market wouldn’t have any sweet corn until between July 4 and 10, said Ray Crawley, manager at Goodman’s, and that would be just one or two growers. It’s not even Independence Day yet…...

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Jul 3, 2012

Native Plants Day, tips for aphids & more stuff too good to miss

Native Plants Day set at Lockwood’s Native Plants Day, part of the National Garden Festival, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 7 at Lockwood’s Greenhouses, 4484 Clark Street, Hamburg. Topics include the significance of native plants, revitalizing neighborhoods by creating beautiful livable growing places, and the impact of individual decision-making on the quality of life in Western New York. Speakers include: Sally Cunningham, author, consultant and director of the National Garden Festival sees an opportunity…...

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Jun 26, 2012

view from deck of Maldovans' garden on Parkside Garden Tour in Buffalo

Go on a garden walk, diagnose your veggies & lots more!

Summer begins and so do the garden walks! What an exciting week: Tomorrow is officially the first day of summer, and garden walks start this weekend! (If you’re going to show your garden on a garden walk this summer and would be willing to spread the word about Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, I will gratefully send you handouts. Call Connie Oswald Stofko at (716) 833-5187 or email me at Connie@Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com.) Kicking off the garden walk season is the free 7th annual Lewiston GardenFest,…...

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Jun 19, 2012

Orchid workshop, a bit of history & other items too good to miss

Orchid Care Workshop at Arbordale Nurseries You can learn basic orchid care from John Kociela of the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society during a workshop at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 23 at Arbordale Nurseries, 480 Dodge Road, Getzville. Kociela will show how to grow and maintain the most popular type of orchids. His presentation will include proper pruning, feeding and selection techniques. The workshop is free, but you must preregister. For more information, call 688-9125. __________ Lancaster Garden Club marks 80th anniversary…...

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Jun 12, 2012

You can enter a hosta show, tour artists’ gardens & more!

There are so many fun and educational gardening events happening at this time of year, and we wanted to highlight just a few. Be sure to check our Upcoming Events Page often so you don’t miss anything. __________ Visit artists’ gardens on motorcoach tour The first in a series of motorcoach garden tours sponsored by the National Garden Festival will be a tour of artists’ gardens on Saturday, June 23. Found art, folk art, abstract art, architectural remnants, anything goes…...

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Jun 5, 2012