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East Side Garden Walk. Photo courtesy Jim Charlier

This week: five MORE garden walks, Open Gardens & a talk

by Connie Oswald Stofko The gardening joy continues in Western New York! There will be about 300 gardens waiting for you to visit this week. Do you like elegant gardens? Quirky gardens? Tiny gardens? Vegetable gardens? Gardens with water features? Lots of native plants? Shady areas? You can find these and more! Prepare to immerse yourself in everything growing this week: a Garden walks a City of Tonawanda Garden Walk Friday Night Lights: 8:30 – 11 pm Friday, July 18…...

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Jul 15, 2025

It’s time to start another veggie crop, plus more seed libraries

by Connie Oswald Stofko Our spring was so wet and muddy, you might not have been able to sow vegetable seeds. Don’t worry. It’s time for succession planting! You can actually plant vegetables in spring and again in summer. In our previous article, Patti Jablonski-Dopkin, general manager at Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market explains what to plant and when to plant. It’s all spelled out so you know what vegetables you can plant in your area now. You can buy seeds at Urban…...

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Jul 15, 2025

asters in bloom with butterfly in Amherst NY

Fill the blank spaces in your garden

July is the time to take inventory of the blank spaces in your garden, according to Peggy Koppmann in “This Month in the Garden.” That’s one of the articles in the most recent edition of WNY Gardening Matters, produced by the Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Erie County. “Perhaps a plant has died, or (gasp!), you killed it,” Koppmann said. “Maybe it got eaten by rabbits or it was overwatered or was in the wrong place. Maybe it was…...

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Jul 15, 2025

Amazing week: Open Gardens begin, 8 garden walks & Conservation Day!

by Connie Oswald Stofko You won’t find this much gardening joy packed into one week anywhere else in North America! The only problem: there’s so much happening, you can’t see it all. But don’t worry. The parts that you do see will be amazing! Open Gardens Nearly 100 remarkable, private gardens will again be open to the public during Open Gardens. Visitors are allowed only at select times on Thursdays and Fridays in July. That creates a serene, uncrowded garden…...

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Jul 8, 2025

How to stake a drooping flower, plus 2 more great gardening tips

by Connie Oswald Stofko Do you have a tall flower, such as a delphinium, that is drooping? Find out what you should do. Jen Weber, vice president and manager of Mike Weber Greenhouses, 42 French Rd., West Seneca, explains how to properly stake flowers in a previous article. She also discusses how to choose plants that are healthy (yes, there is still lots of time to buy new plants!) and provides a tip on watering that will help you avoid flattening your…...

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Jul 8, 2025

gardens in different landscapes in Western New York

Congratulate the lucky winners whose gardens will be featured here!

by Connie Oswald Stofko I’m so happy to announce the two lucky winners of our inaugural Celebrity Drawing—an exclusive prize drawing for our valued Level 3 Celebrity subscribers! These two gardeners will soon be featured right here on Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com! You’ll be able to glimpse their gardens and hear their gardening wisdom. Our winners get a personal visit where I: Every garden has a story worth telling, and I can’t wait to share these two special stories with you. Want to…...

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Jul 8, 2025

delphinium flowers at Mischler's Florist and Greenhouse

Color your garden with perennials from Mischler’s

by Connie Oswald Stofko Four reasons why you should buy perennials now: Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses in Williamsville has a great selection of perennials now. Below are just a few. Delphinium: tall The delphinium is a grand perennial that can grow three or four feet high. It makes a good cut flower, said Jessica Limardi, a staff member at Mischler’s. The plant has a huge flower spike, and it also has side shoots coming out of the stem. The side…...

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Jul 1, 2025

Look for invasive species & you might win a prize

You can help our environment by looking for invasive species through the NY iMapInvasives Annual Mapping Challenge. Learn more and find out how to participate at the NY iMapInvasives website. The top individual data contributors and Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management regions will also receive special prizes from the New York Natural Heritage Program. Some of the species in the challenge are data gap species. Data gap species are: If you look at a map of all the data for one…...

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Jul 1, 2025

Summer tips from Orleans County Master Gardeners

Here are just three of the many tips in the garden checklist for July from the Master Gardeners of Orleans County. Find lots of details within those tips–and more!–here. Do you have gardening questions? Contact the Master Gardeners in Orleans County here. If you live in a different county and have questions, find your Cornell Cooperative Extension office here…....

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Jul 1, 2025

Garden Art Sale, 2 garden walks & more this weekend!

Gardening events are in full swing this weekend, and they’re clustered in one area. You can experience them all in two days! Garden Art Sale The highly anticipated Garden Art Sale will take place at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. Times are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 28 and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, June 29. Transform your garden with one-of-a-kind pieces from 65 vendors specializing in nature-themed artworks. Mediums include sculpture, metalwork, paintings, woodwork, architectural remnants,…...

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Jun 24, 2025