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Welcome to our new subscribers & thank you to our current readers

First I want to welcome all the folks who subscribed to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com this past week at Lockwood’s Fall Garden Festival and at the 47th annual rally of the Western New York Gas and Steam Engine Association. I’ll work hard to keep you up to date with gardening information in Western New York. In fact, I’m in the midst of making some changes to the website to make it more streamlined and more useful to readers. I’ll tell you more about…...

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Sep 10, 2013
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Get inspired to express your personality in your Western New York garden

Join me, Connie Oswald Stofko, publisher of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, when I present “Express Your Personality” at the meeting of the Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 at the First Baptist Church, 32 Main St., Silver Creek. I’ll show you photos of creative ways that other gardeners have expressed their personalities in their landscapes. There’s the gardener who chooses plants with names that are found in the Bible, the artist with a verdant backyard who spends no…...

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Sep 10, 2013
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Cornell & apple industry group introduce two new varieties of apples

Cornell University, in partnership with the New York Apple Growers, a new industry group, has developed two new apple varieties of apples, SnapDragon and RubyFrost, that will be available this fall at a few farmers markets. The apples were developed by Cornell University breeder and Horticulture Professor Susan Brown. They are being grown by 140 apple farmers throughout New York State. The two varieties have been a decade in the making, and how they’ve gone to market is a first…...

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Sep 10, 2013
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Watch local cooking challenge & learn to cook with native plants

Sumac, a native plant, is pretty this time of year with its large red, cone-shaped flowers. You can see these small trees in parks or in the wild, and they make a great landscape plant. But did you know sumac is edible? There are quite a few native plants you might want to start growing for food– If you know how to cook with them. In this article we’ll tell you about two events where you can get ideas on…...

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Sep 3, 2013
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Learn to make a fairy garden with holiday theme in hands-on classes at Mischler’s

Learn how to make a fairy garden with a Halloween or Christmas theme in workshops to be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28 at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville. Workshops will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day. Each workshop will last about two hours. The first half of each workshop will consist of an explanation and demonstration by Mischler’s creative staff.  The second half of the workshop will be hands-on, with…...

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Sep 3, 2013
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Sept. 13 is deadline to enter veggies, flowers in Genesee Country Village fair

You can enter plants, flowers, heirloom vegetables and fruits in the Agricultural Fair to be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5 and 6 at the Genesee Country Village and Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Road, Mumford. The competitions include one for largest pumpkin. Prior registration is required. Entry forms must be received by Friday, Sept. 13. Find the entry form and rules here. Entrants will receive one day free admission to the fair. The competitions are…...

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Sep 3, 2013
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Cooperative Extension in Erie County sets gardening classes

Three gardening classes will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 21 South Grove Street, East Aurora. The cost is $15 per class or all three classes for $40. Send a check made out to MG of Erie County to CUCE Erie County, ATTN: Carol Ann Harlos, 21 South Grove St., East Aurora NY 14052. The classes are: Sept. 10: Lyn Chimera will speak on “Why Native Plants?” Sept. 17:  Carol Ann Harlos will speak…...

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Sep 3, 2013
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Learn how to get better blooms on hydrangeas at Lockwood’s fall fair

If you’ve had trouble getting your hydrangeas to bloom, you’re not alone. So many people had this problem that Tim Boebel wrote a book on the topic called Hydrangeas in the North. You can get tips directly from the author when he speaks at Lockwood’s Fall Garden Fair at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at Lockwood’s Greenhouses, 4484 Clark Street, Hamburg. This year the fair will be held for two days, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7 and 8. Hours will…...

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Aug 27, 2013
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Rally to feature steam-powered & other vintage farm equipment

by Connie Oswald Stofko For centuries, the only power that was used on farms for plowing, threshing and every other chore was provided by people or by horses. That changed with the introduction of steam power in the 1800s. Later, gasoline engines were used in all sorts of ways, including providing power to washing machines in rural areas that hadn’t yet gotten electricity. You can see fascinating vintage farm equipment during the 47th annual rally of the Western New York…...

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Aug 27, 2013
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Botanical Gardens gets grant for Plant Pals program

A unique field trip to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens will be taken by 220 second-graders in the Buffalo Public Schools, thanks to a $2,500 grant from the Buffalo Bills Youth Foundation. The grant will fund a portion of the Plant Pals program at the Botanical Gardens. Created in 2011 with a grant from the Margaret Whitehead Foundation, Plant Pals is aligned to the New York State Standards for Science and provides lessons for second-graders in the Buffalo…...

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Aug 27, 2013
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