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Winning landscapes at Plantasia, plus you may be winner in my drawing

by Connie Oswald Stofko During the summer, we spend more time outside, even after the sun goes down. Visitors to Plantasia got ideas for gardens in general and more specifically for viewing them at dusk with this year’s theme, “Cityscapes into the Night.” Garden lighting was a big feature of the displays. Street signs, traffic lights, a fire hydrant and a manhole cover added to the feeling of being in a big city. Plantasia is the garden and landscape show…...

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Apr 3, 2018

large garden around tree in Grand Island NY

After years of adding gardens, couple finds it’s OK to cut back

by Connie Oswald Stofko After about 20 years of adding trees and garden beds to their Grand Island landscape, Pat and Gary Scott are slowing down and even reducing the size of some beds. “We have to tone it down a little because it’s a lot of work,” Pat said. “If the gardens get too big, it’s overwhelming.” I visited the Scotts on last year’s Grand Island Garden Walk. This year the Grand Island Garden Walk will be held from 10…...

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Mar 27, 2018

Last day to enter prize drawing worth $200; welcome new subscribers!

by Connie Oswald Stofko Tell your friends that they have until midnight tonight, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, to enter to win a gardener’s prize package worth more than $200. All they have to do to enter is to subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com. And it’s free to subscribe! It was wonderful meeting so many new people this past week at Plantasia. If you subscribed with us at Plantasia, you were automatically entered into the prize drawing! And if you were already subscribed before Plantasia,…...

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Mar 27, 2018

Garden at Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village

Volunteers needed for gardens at Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village

Volunteers are needed to help with an ongoing gardening project sponsored by the Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County at the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, 3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd., Amherst. They plant and maintain demonstration gardens and give gardening education in this museum, set up like a village from the 1800s. You can learn from Master Gardeners as you work side by side with them in a variety of gardens: herb garden, dyer’s garden, native plant garden, Peace…...

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Mar 27, 2018

Don’t be misled by gardening myths; learn more at Plantasia

by Connie Oswald Stofko “I finally got fed up with the baloney I saw on the Internet,” said Carolyn Stanko, associate professor of horticulture and biology at Niagara County Community College and a senior CNLP. She’d see posts of bogus gardening information, but other readers would think it was true and share it. “I finally had to stand up and preach the truth!” she said. She will help you separate gardening fact from fiction when she presents “Garden Myth Busting –…...

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Mar 20, 2018

Succulents in a mini-bird-bath from Mischler's

There’s still time to enter our prize drawing– It’s free to subscribe!

by Connie Oswald Stofko There is still time to enter our great prize drawing. To enter, just subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York. It’s free to subscribe! The deadline to enter is Tuesday, March 27. If you are already subscribed, you are already entered! Hey, I appreciate the support of my longtime readers! Three winners will be selected at random from our list of subscribers. Each will win a prize package worth more than $200! If you are one…...

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Mar 20, 2018

Breath of spring– Pansies now available at Mischler’s

It’s the first day of spring! Some days, the sun feels so warm you can venture out in just a sweater. Well, it’s warm enough if you’re getting some exercise, like breaking down the mounds of snow still left in your driveway. But it is warm enough for pansies! You can get pansies at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville. Pansies are a cool weather annual. They don’t mind cool temperatures and they can tolerate some frost. That’s why…...

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Mar 20, 2018

What to plant for monarchs; learn more at GROW Jamestown Garden Fair

by Connie Oswald Stofko If you’re over 40, you probably remember seeing lots of monarch butterflies when you were a kid. Maybe you even saw the caterpillar form its amazing chrysalis, then emerge as a butterfly. But if you’re younger, you may not have had that experience, said Betsy Burgeson, supervisor of Gardens and Landscapes at the Chautauqua Institution. The number of monarchs has been declining for years, but Burgeson will tell you how you can help increase their numbers by hand-raising monarchs…....

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Mar 13, 2018

Plantasia: Gardens, flower show, speakers & new theme

by Connie Oswald Stofko There is so much to do at Plantasia that you may not be able to fit it all into one day. Plantasia, the garden and landscape show for Western New York, will be held at the Fairgrounds Event Center & Artisan Hall, 5820 South Park, Hamburg. It will kick off with a Preview Night from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. It continues from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 22 through 24, and…...

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Mar 13, 2018

Welcome to our new subscribers– please tell your friends!

by Connie Oswald Stofko I want to welcome all of our new subscribers who signed up for Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com through the recent email sent out by the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens and by hearing about us from friends. You’ll now receive all of our great gardening tips for Western New York, plus you are automatically entered into our prize drawing! You have the chance to win a prize package valued at more than $200! And because I value my…...

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Mar 13, 2018