by Connie Oswald Stofko I will present “Get Crafty in Your Garden” at the meeting of the Cinderella Isle Garden Club at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 19 in Trinity Lutheran Church, 2100 Whitehaven Rd., Grand Island. In my presentation, I’ll show you tips on crafts you can make for your garden as well as from your garden. One of the crafts is the inexpensive and easy-to-make glass mushroom decoration for your garden seen here. Like all the events we list…
by Connie Oswald Stofko Here’s a question from a reader: Hi Connie, Last summer we were warned about aster yellows destroying coneflowers. My coneflowers were all infected but I didn’t remove the plants from my garden. Now I’m watching them sprout and I’m wondering if I should be worried. Should I take them out now? Thanks, Eileen Welborn Buffalo Yes, if you saw symptoms of aster yellows disease last year on your coneflowers and you didn’t pull out and carefully…...
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The garden walks in Lancaster and Ken-Ton are looking to sign up gardeners who want their gardens listed on this year’s event, and Hamburg is looking to sign up vendors as well as gardeners. As we told you previously, Sunday, May 15 is the deadline to sign up for Garden Walk Buffalo. For more information on other garden walks, see our Events page. Hamburg Garden Walk: vendors & gardeners The Hamburg Garden Walk is looking for gardeners to show their…...
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The first Evening in the Garden of the season will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 in the demonstration garden at the Frank Bratt Ag Center, 3542 Turner Rd., Jamestown. The events are held by the Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County. Each session includes a talk or demonstration as well as a question-and-answer session. This month’s session will be a demonstration of container planting. It will cover different examples of plants that can be…...
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A 24-hour “bioBlitz” will be held to find and identify as many different species of organisms as possible at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Cheektowaga. It will take place from Friday evening through Saturday, May 13-14. It is being held by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in partnership with Friends of Reinstein Woods. Starting on the evening of Friday, May 13, field teams of local scientists and volunteers will work together to seek out…...
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by Connie Oswald Stofko Last year we told you about two invasive insects that could cause problems in your garden: the red lily leaf beetle and the brown marmorated stink bug. The red lily leaf beetle is the one that causes the most concern right now. It eats lilies and did extensive damage in some gardens last year. If you had lily leaf beetles last year, expect to have them this year. Start watching for the red lily leaf beetle…...
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by Connie Oswald Stofko Hanging baskets and gift certificates. Those were the items suggested most frequently when I asked my Premium Partners what the most popular gift items were for Mother’s Day, which is coming up on Sunday, May 8. (And these gifts work just as well for gardening dads– Use these suggestions again when Father’s Day rolls around on June 19!) “The weather’s nice and people want something for outdoors,” said Dan Meyer, greenhouse associate at Mischler’s Florist and…...
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Plant sales and other activities will be held by the Cornell Cooperative Extension programs in Chautauqua, Genesee, Niagara and Erie Counties. See more events on our Events page as well as on the websites of Cooperative Extension in the various counties. Chautauqua County, May 14 The Chautauqua County Master Gardeners will hold a sale of plants and yard art as well as gently used gardening tools, clothing and books from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 14 at the Frank…...
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Historically, we have landscaped to add beauty to our yards, without much thought to the role that plants provide in maintaining healthy ecosystems. The way we think about our yards needs to shift, according to award-winning author Doug Tallamy. In an event organized by the Western New York Land Conservancy, Tallamy will present “Rebuilding Nature’s Relationships at Home” on Tuesday, May 10 at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts on the North Campus, Maple Rd. and Flint, Amherst…....
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by Connie Oswald Stofko You may have heard that using bark as mulch is good because it provides nutrition for your plants, or that it’s bad because it eats up nitrogen making the nitrogen unavailable to your plants. The article Woof! No, Bark! clears up the confusion on using bark as mulch. This article is in WNY Gardening Matters, produced by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners in Erie County….
