Urban Roots Buffalo NY

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…

mature trees in huge backyard in East Aurora NY

This magazine should keep going

by Connie Oswald Stofko After 15 years of publishing this gardening magazine for you and all my wonderful readers, I need to step down. Not immediately, but in the near future. I love Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, and you have told me that you love it, too. There are the great gardening tips that help you in your garden, the landscapes that give you inspiration, the long list of events and so much more. Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com is basically a one-person business. It’s time for…

box tree moth

Invasive moths are damaging boxwoods in parts of WNY: what you should do

by Connie Oswald Stofko The box tree moth, an invasive pest that can damage and even kill a boxwood shrub within weeks, has been identified in Niagara, Erie and Orleans counties. This pest can spread; the moths are highly mobile and are good fliers. Anyone with boxwoods in Western New York should watch now for the caterpillar stage of the box tree moth (Buxus species). The caterpillar feeds almost exclusively on boxwood shrubs. The caterpillars are ravenous feeders, and heavy infestations…