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5 tips to make the most of autumn leaves in your garden

by Connie Oswald Stofko Do you know that there are people who essentially throw their leaves away? They rake them out to the curb and wait for someone to haul them away. I find that amazing because those autumn leaves are a valuable commodity for your garden– yet they’re free! Here are five tips on making the most of autumn leaves. Tip #1: Use leaves as mulch around your perennials to help them survive the winter. If we have a…...

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Oct 21, 2014

Corpse flower updates: Morty’s ‘sibling’ leafed out & is on display; third plant is budding

by Connie Oswald Stofko Remember Morty the corpse flower that bloomed last summer at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens? Well, it has siblings. In July, the Botanical Gardens purchased three corms (bulbs) of the plant Amorphophallus titanum. The plant is commonly called a corpse flower because, when in bloom, it emits a smell like garbage or rotting flesh. One of the corms, dubbed Morty, bloomed this summer. The second corm has sent up a single leaf that, as…...

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Oct 21, 2014

Garden Walk Buffalo accepting applications for grants; deadline is Feb. 17

Applications for Marvin Lunenfeld Beautification Grants are now available from Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest garden walk in the nation. The grants, named for Marvin Lunenfeld, Garden Walk Buffalo’s founder, have helped fund dozens of garden beautification projects across the West Side of Buffalo for a total of more than $50,000 in the last several years. The 2015 grant application can be found here. Completed applications are due Feb. 17, 2015 with funding awards announced in early spring 2015. Garden…...

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Oct 21, 2014

Tell your gardening friends– It’s free to subscribe to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com!

by Connie Oswald Stofko There are people who have been reading Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com for years and didn’t know they could subscribe! And it’s free! Yes, you can just visit our website without subscribing, but when you subscribe, you get notified every time new content is posted. That way, you don’t miss a thing! You’ll get great gardening tips that really work in Western New York, see full-color photos and videos, and have the opportunity to peruse the most comprehensive list of…...

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Oct 21, 2014

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Got clay? Don’t want to dig? Want a new bed over lawn? Try lasagna gardening in autumn

by Connie Oswald Stofko It’s autumn, and here’s an outside project you can do today: create a lasagna garden. Lasagna gardening is a method where you apply material to your garden bed in layers, like in a lasagna. Lasagna gardening has several advantages: You don’t have to till or dig your garden bed. The technique works with clay or other poor soil. You can create a new bed over lawn. It’s not labor intensive. It’s organic. You don’t have to…...

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Oct 14, 2014

Mum Show & more set at Botanical Gardens

I hope you were able to get outside today and enjoy the splendid weather. But this weekend, the weather will be cool and possibly rainy– perfect weather for an indoor flower show! Spectacular mums that you won’t see in a backyard will be on display during the Mum Show to be held from from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from Saturday, Oct. 18 to Sunday, Nov. 9 at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave.,…...

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Oct 14, 2014

Question: What happened to the color on the hydrangea tree blossoms?

Here’s a question from a reader: Hi! I have another hydrangea tree question. My H. Paniculata Limelight is now three years old. The first two years I had large blooms that started out slightly green, changed to a bright white, then turned pink. (See the bright white blooms here.) This year there were many smaller blooms. Some stayed green from August to the present (Oct. 7), and a few went from green to white and back to green. I missed…...

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Oct 14, 2014

Get 45 gardening tips in 45 minutes at Wheatfield Garden Club

by Connie Oswald Stofko I will present “45 Gardening Tips in 45 Minutes” at the meeting of the Wheatfield Garden Club at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the Wheatfield Community Center, 2790 Church Rd., Wheatfield. Like all the events we list on Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, this event is open to the public. I’ll share some of the best tips I discovered as I interviewed home gardeners and gardening experts for the online gardening magazine for Western New York. I can speak…...

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Oct 14, 2014

UB students design house with Buffalo gardener or urban farmer in mind

by Connie Oswald Stofko Wouldn’t you love to live in a home with a greenhouse where you could grow your own food all year? That’s a key feature of the GROW House being designed by a team of University at Buffalo students to appeal to Buffalo gardeners, or more specifically, to urban farmers in Buffalo. GROW House stands for Grow, Relax or Work House. It’s entered in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015, a two-year competition that will culminate…...

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Oct 7, 2014

Free: Get advice for your own landscape from gardening expert Sally Cunningham on Oct. 11

It’s not that we don’t have inspiration for our landscapes. We go on the garden walks and Open Gardens. We look at photos on Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com and Pinterest. We see lots of beautiful landscapes that we wouldn’t mind having in our yards. But we just don’t know where to start. You will have a unique opportunity to get advice for your own landscape from gardening expert Sally Cunningham, CNLP, in a small discussion group at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 at…...

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Oct 7, 2014