Our exciting prize drawing is back; package is worth more than $500!

by Connie Oswald Stofko

Three lucky winners will each receive a fantastic prize package worth more than $500!

Yes, there will be three winners, and each winner will receive the entire prize package!

This year, our prize drawing is exclusively for Level 2 and Level 3 subscribers of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com.

If you’re already subscribed at one of these levels, you’re automatically entered—thank you for being part of our gardening community!

And if you’re a subscriber at Level 3, you are also entered into a special prize drawing: I will come out to your landscape, interview you, photograph your gardens, and publish an article about your landscape in Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com! I’ll give you more details about that special drawing in a few weeks.

This year’s prizes

Our prizes come from our wonderful sponsors. If you are one of the three lucky winners, you’ll get all of these:

• A Thymes gift set that includes a hand wash, hand lotion, and home fragrance mist, with a total value of $50, from Lockwood’s Greenhouses & Farm, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg.
• A large, woven indoor-outdoor pillow with a beautiful multicolored dragonfly on a cream background by Plow & Hearth from Henry’s Gardens, 7884 Sisson Hwy., Eden.
• An organic microgreens grow kit, wildflower soap and a $10 gift certificate from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, 428 Rhode Island St., Buffalo.
• 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 of garden accessories worth $75 plus a $25 gift certificate from Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville. (Items will vary.)
• 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!

Official contest rules for the spring 2025 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, April 8, 2025.

3. The winners will be chosen by random on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 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 7 p.m. Friday, April 11 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 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, 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:

• Pick up the Lockwood’s prize at Lockwood’s Greenhouses & Farm, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg, NY. Pick up the prize by Saturday, May 3, 2025.
• Schedule delivery of the Lakeside Sod Big Yellow Bag by calling Lakeside Sod at 716-741-2880 no later than Friday, May 30, 2025. Winner must be within Lakeside Sod’s delivery area to receive the prize.
• Pick up the Henry’s Gardens prize at Henry’s Gardens, 7884 Sisson Hwy., Eden, NY. Pick up the prize by Monday, May 5, 2025.
• 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 3, 2025. Please call Mischler’s at 716-632-1290 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 Sunday, May 4, 2025.
• 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.

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 $25 gift certificate from Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses; an organic microgreens grow kit, wildflower soap and a $10 gift certificate from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market; a Thymes gift set that includes a hand wash, hand lotion, and home fragrance mist from Lockwood’s Greenhouses, 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 $525.

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.

13. The contest is open to everyone with the exception of employees of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, Henry’s Gardens, Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, Lockwood’s Garden Center, Lakeside Sod, the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens and Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market.

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, Henry’s Gardens, Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, Lockwood’s Garden Center, the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Lakeside Sod, 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.