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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

Consider cover crops for your garden; get seed now

by Deb Bigelow, Master Gardener volunteer, and Colleen Cavagna, Community/Consumer Horticulture Educator with Allegany County Cornell Cooperative Extension Now that cover crop seed is widely available in small quantities for home gardeners, it’s easier than ever to incorporate these wonder-workers into your garden plans. Cover crops are helpful for beds that are too weedy to give good yields or that need organic matter. They can also attract pollinators and slow erosion. You might think of farms when you think of cover crops,…...

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Mar 6, 2018

Please tell your gardening friends about our great prize drawing!

by Connie Oswald Stofko I want to find new subscribers for Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York, so I’m holding a drawing and offering great prizes for gardeners. Please help me spread the word by emailing this information to a friend. Or share it on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter or your favorite social media. Or pick up the phone and call a relative. Or mention it to a coworker. If you’ve been reading Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com for awhile, you’re my best ambassador…....

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Mar 6, 2018

Mischler’s introduces bonsai plants & supplies; see them at Plantasia

by Connie Oswald Stofko You can now get mature bonsai, bonsai starter kits and bonsai supplies at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 South Forest Rd., Williamsville. As we learned a few years ago, bonsai (pronounced bone-SIGH) is created by pruning and training a tree over a period of years to keep it small while giving it the form and shape of a mature tree. If you’re a beginner, you may enjoy the starter kits. If you’re already in the process…...

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Mar 6, 2018

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Sign up by May 15 to share your garden on Garden Walk Buffalo

Gardeners from the Peace Bridge to Main Street and from Canalside to the Scajaquada can be part of the 2018 Garden Walk Buffalo. May 15 is the deadline to sign up to share your garden on Garden Walk Buffalo. You can sign up online. There is no contest and no prizes; the objective of the garden walk has always been to encourage neighborhood beautification and to promote community pride. Just fill out the registration form and your garden can become part…...

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Mar 6, 2018

Our prize drawing is back– with some new prizes!

by Connie Oswald Stofko Our great prize drawing is back again this year, and we have some new prizes. To enter, just subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York. It’s free to subscribe! 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! The deadline to enter is Tuesday,…...

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Feb 27, 2018

Moles and voles creating holes: What to do

by Connie Oswald Stofko Over the years, I have heard gardeners complain about moles and voles, so when I saw a mole in my garden a couple weeks ago, I freaked out. After talking to John Farfaglia, extension educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension in Niagara County, I’m much more relaxed. Now I have a plan. And my plan is to do nothing. (I’ve already started. It doesn’t get easier than this.) First, let’s sort out the difference between moles…...

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Feb 27, 2018

Tallamy bringing message to WNY: Your garden is a wildlife preserve

While we may think of our gardens as simply places of beauty, that thinking needs to change, says Doug Tallamy, famed author of Bringing Nature Home as well as co-author of The Living Landscape. He contends that our home gardens are actually wildlife preserves. Our gardens play this role because decades of intense urban sprawl have fragmented and shrunk our natural places. Our native plants and animals depend more and more on human-dominated landscapes for their continued existence, according to Dr. Tallamy. Home…...

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Feb 27, 2018