Kokedama or moss ball gardening will be offered for the first time from 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 as part of the Make-it Take-it series at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. Kokedama is a Japanese hanging garden that originated from bonsai styles. These trendy arrangements are created with a packed soil mixture covered with moss and tied with string. You can hang them. This workshop will be led by David Clark, internationally known…...

The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County Master Gardener Program will hold a series of three gardening classes to be held in late September and early October. The classes will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Dard Hunter Hall (upstairs meeting room) at the Print Shop on the Roycroft Campus at 21 South Grove St., East Aurora. (On the day of the class, check the Cooperative Extension website; the location of the class may be moved to a…...

Build your own scarecrow during Oktoberfest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 S. Forest Rd., Williamsville. You supply an old shirt and pants and they will provide the rest of the materials– a burlap head, straw, twine and sticks. Mischler’s Greenhouse associates will be on hand to help. Take your child or grandchild to share in this unique Oktoberfest experience. While you’re at Mischler’s, check out all the items for fall…...

If you have grown some vegetables that you’re proud of, you can make sure they get the recognition that they deserve by entering them in the flower show to be held by the Kenmore Garden Club next weekend. Anyone can enter; you don’t have to be a member of the club. The vegetable that you want to enter must have been grown by you. You can enter any vegetable. If the vegetable is large, such as regular tomatoes, you will…...

by Connie Oswald Stofko Dave Mischler, president of the  Western New York Gas & Steam Engine Association, and his wife, Nancy, were among the last people to ride on the SS Canadiana, the boat that ferried passengers between Buffalo and the Crystal Beach Amusement Park in Ontario. The couple was in high school when they took a moonlight cruise in 1956, the last year of the Canadiana’s operation here. The huge steam engine that once powered the boat will be…...

Two new series of classes, Horticulture V and VI, are being added to the existing series of horticulture classes at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. Art classes are scheduled, too. For more information, call 827-1584, ext. 292. Horticulture classes You don’t have to take the classes in order, so you can take these new classes even if you haven’t completed Horticulture I-IV. You can sign up for just a single class, too. The…...