by Connie Oswald Stofko
Tell your friends that today, Tuesday, March 22, is the last day to enter to win a gardener’s prize package worth nearly $500.
All they have to do to enter is subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. And it’s free to subscribe!
Welcome new subscribers! Shout out to my loyal readers from past years! If you have already subscribed, you are already in the prize drawing!
But if you haven’t subscribed, do it today. You will automatically be entered into our prize drawing.
I will choose the winners tomorrow morning (Wednesday, March 23).
I will get a numbered list of all the subscribers to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. I’ll use Random.org to generate a list of random numbers. The names that correspond with the first three numbers on the random list will be the winners.
I’ll email the three lucky winners to notify them that they have won. Each winner must respond to the email by 5 p.m. Sunday, March 27 to let me know that they have received the notification and are prepared to pick up their prizes. If they don’t respond, I will choose another winner.
I hope to hear from the winners promptly so I can announce them in our next issue of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. I have my fingers crossed for all of you!
If you are one of the three lucky winners, here’s what you’ll get:
- A Big Yellow Bag containing a full cubic yard of great soil delivered to your home from Lakeside Sod, 6660 Goodrich Rd., Clarence Center.
- A gift basket full of items any gardener would love, plus a $20 gift certificate from Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville. (Items will vary.)
- A ceramic solar lantern (can be hanging or tabletop), three mini Bees & Honey notebooks and a $20 gift certificate from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, 428 Rhode Island St., Buffalo.
- A soy candle made by Buffawix Candle Co., along with a $30 gift certificate from Lockwood’s Greenhouses, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg.
- A one-year family membership to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. If you are already a Botanical Gardens member, your membership will be extended one year!
- A copy of the amazing book Buffalo-Style Gardens, signed by authors Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier.
Official Contest Rules for the Spring 2022 Prize Package
1. To enter, subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. If you are already subscribed, you are already entered.
2. The last day to enter is Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
3. The winners will be chosen by random on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 from all subscribers who meet the qualifications.
4. To qualify, the entry must include a working email address. If the email address is a nonexistent address, if Constant Contact is blocked by the user, if the user’s mailbox is full or if there is some other impediment to the user being reached by Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com via email, the entry will be disqualified.
5. If you are chosen as a winner, you will be notified via email by Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com.
6. You must respond to the email by 5 p.m. Sunday, March 27, 2022 to let us know that you have received the notification and are prepared to pick up your prizes. If we don’t hear from you by 5 p.m. March 27 we will choose another winner.
7. We will ask you to respond with your name and the town you live in so that we can use your name and town in an article in an upcoming edition of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com announcing that you were a winner as well as in other promotions. Winners must agree to the use of their names and town for promotion purposes. We won’t share your street address or email address.
8. You must pick up your prizes at the various locations that are providing the prizes by the date specified:
- Schedule delivery of the Lakeside Sod Big Yellow Bag by calling Lakeside Sod at 716-741-2877 no later than Saturday, May 28, 2022. You must be within Lakeside Sod’s delivery area to receive the prize.
- Pick up the Lockwood’s prize at Lockwood’s Greenhouses, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg, NY. Pick up the prize by Saturday, May 7, 2022.
- Pick up the Mischler’s prize at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville, NY. Pick up the prize by Saturday, May 7, 2022. Please call Mischler’s before you stop by.
- Pick up the Urban Roots prize at Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, 428 Rhode Island St., Buffalo. Pick up the prize by Saturday, May 7, 2022.
- The membership to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens will be sent to you via U.S. postal mail. When we email you to notify you that you are a winner, we will ask you for your postal mailing address.
- The book Buffalo-Style Gardens will also be sent to you via U.S. postal mail. When we email you to notify you that you are a winner, we will ask you for your postal mailing address.
9. Each winner will receive a Big Yellow Bag containing a full cubic yard of soil from Lakeside Sod; a gift basket of gardening supplies and a $20 gift certificate from Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses; a ceramic solar lantern, mini notebooks and a $20 gift certificate from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market; a soy candle made by Buffawix Candle Co., along with a $30 gift certificate from Lockwood’s Greenhouses; a copy of the book Buffalo-Style Gardens, signed by authors Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier, and a one-year family membership to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. If you are already a Botanical Gardens member, your membership will be extended one year. Each of the three prize packages is worth approximately $470.
10. Winners from previous years cannot win again. No person can win more than once.
11. All taxes relative to the prize package are the sole responsibility of the winner. No prize substitutions, assignments or transfers. No cash equivalents.
12. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. All federal, state, local and municipal laws apply. Void where prohibited.
13. The contest is open to everyone with the exception of employees of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, Lockwood’s Greenhouses, Lakeside Sod, the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens and Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, and the authors of Buffalo-Style Gardens.
14. This contest is sponsored by Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. By participating, all entrants acknowledge and agree that they have entered the contest of their own free will, that the full rules and details of the contest have been made available to them in writing and they therefore understand and agree that Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, Lockwood’s Greenhouses, the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Lakeside Sod, Buffalo-Style Gardens, Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, their agents, affiliates, sponsors, representatives or employees do not have any liability with respect to any damages out of acceptance and use of a prize. By entering this promotion, participants agree to be bound by these rules.
