by Connie Oswald Stofko
Do you already have a membership at Level 2 or 3? (Level 2 is the annual subscription for $22.79 and Level 3 is the Celebrity Level for $29.79.)
If so, you have automatically been entered into this year’s prize drawing from Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com.
There will be three winners for the prize packages–each winner will receive a prize package worth nearly $500!
An extra chance at the Celebrity Level
If you are at the Celebrity Level and aren’t one of the three winners of the prize package, you will automatically be in another drawing.
You could be a gardening celebrity!
If you are the winner, I will come to your home, interview you and take photos, then publish an article about you in Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com! See one of last year’s Celebrity Winner.
This year’s package of prizes
Our prizes come from our wonderful sponsors. If you are one of the three lucky winners, you’ll get all of these:
- A Big Yellow Bag, worth $184.99, 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 flower press, micro snips and five varieties of seeds for a High Mowing Bouquet Garden that is perfect for a cutting garden and for drying & pressing, $50 value, from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market, 428 Rhode Island St. Buffalo.
- A gift set from Mackenzie’s product line including hand scrub, soap, knuckle wax and a hand towel, $50 value, from Lockwood’s Garden Center, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg.
- A birdhouse made of felt that’s durable outdoors and decorative indoors by Wild Woolies and DZI Handmade, worth $39.99, from Henry’s Gardens.
- 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 2026 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 14, 2026.
3. The winners will be chosen by random on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 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 17 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 17, 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 716-741-2880 no later than Friday, May 29, 2026. Winner must be within Lakeside Sod’s delivery area to receive the prize.
- Pick up the Mischler’s prize at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville, NY. Pick up the prize no later than Saturday, May 2, 2026. 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 3, 2026.
- Pick up the Lockwood’s prize at Lockwood’s Greenhouses & Farm, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg, NY. Pick up the prize by Saturday, May 2, 2026.
- Pick up the Henry’s Gardens prize at Henry’s Gardens, 7884 Sisson Hwy., Eden, NY. Pick up the prize by Monday, May 4, 2026.
- 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; a flower press, micro snips and seeds from Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market; a gift set including hand scrub, soap, knuckle wax and a hand towel from Lockwood’s Greenhouses; a birdhouse made of felt that’s durable outdoors and decorative indoors from Henry’s Gardens, 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 $480.
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.
