by Connie Oswald Stofko With this warm weather we’ve had lately (highs above freezing and even reaching the 40s!), enough snow has melted that I got a peek at the garden along my house. The hyacinths and daffodils are popping up, but they’re short and it will be awhile before they bloom. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait to experience spring flowers. The Spring Flower Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21 to Sunday,…...
Enter for the chance to win a prize package valued at more than $200, including a membership to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, simply by subscribing 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…...
by Connie Oswald Stofko The garden walks, Open Gardens and other great events that you have associated with the National Garden Festival will now come under a new name: Garden Walk Buffalo Niagara. While the National Garden Festival was able to publicize these events, it didn’t have the infrastructure, network of volunteers or funding to be sustainable on its own. Last year it was announced that the National Garden Festival would be absorbed by Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest garden…...
by Connie Oswald Stofko It’s finally time for us to start thinking about starting seeds inside! Cool-weather vegetables Let’s keep our fingers crossed that all this snow melts at a nice, steady pace so that our garden beds will be dry enough to for us to plant cool-weather vegetables in April. As the folks from Lockwood’s Greenhouses in Hamburg told us in a previous article, cool-weather vegetables are the crops that can take some cooler weather and light frosts. They…...
by Connie Oswald Stofko I need your help today. I want to find new subscribers for Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York, so I’m holding a contest and offering great prizes for gardeners. Please help me spread the word by emailing this information to a friend. Or share it on 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…...
Reservations are due tomorrow, March 11 for one of several new events at Plantasia— a garden tea party. The tea party will be held at noon Thursday, March 19 at Plantasia in the Fairgrounds Event Center, 5820 South Park Avenue, Hamburg. The menu will include salad, sandwiches, desserts and a variety of teas. The cost is $22.95 and includes the cost of admission to Plantasia. For more information, email Helen, the tea party hostess, at marklyn1@verizon.net or contact the Plantasia…...
The fourth annual Grow Jamestown Garden Fair has been expanded to include a week of educational workshops, demonstrations and other activities centered on agriculture and education. The week of events will take place Monday through Friday, March 16-20. It will culminate with the Garden Fair from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 21, at the Lillian Vitanza Ney Renaissance Center, 119-121 West 3rd St. (corner of Washington and 3rd), Jamestown. “There is something for everyone this year,” said Mary…...
The first two talks in a series called Trowel Talks will be presented today, Tuesday, March 10, by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County Master Gardeners. “Adaptive Gardening” will be presented at 6:30 p.m. in Myers Memorial Library (Frewsburg), 6 Falconer St., Frewsburg. “Propagating Houseplants” will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Mayville Library, 92 S Erie St., Mayville. The Trowel Talk series will be held during March and April at libraries throughout Chautauqua County. The talks are free…....
by Connie Oswald Stofko I’ll present “45 Gardening Tips in 45 Minutes” at the meeting of the Western New York Herb Study Group at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 in the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. In my presentation, I’ll share some of the best tips I discovered as I have interviewed home gardeners and gardening experts in the past several years for Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York. I have…...
by Connie Oswald Stofko Many of you may have received an amaryllis bulb or plant over the holidays, and you’d like to get it to rebloom indoors next year. It’s not hard to do. However, I’ve heard from a couple people that they were told to cut back the plant after it has finished blooming. Don’t do that! You need to keep the leaves on the plant. Through photosynthesis, the leaves will work to recharge the bulb. The plant needs…...