Get inspiration from Genesee Country Village for autumn decorations with flowers, gourds

by Connie Oswald Stofko First I want to welcome all the folks who subscribed to Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com this past weekend at the Fall Festival and Agricultural Fair at the Genesee Country Village and Museum. Please join the conversation here by commenting on articles. And when your garden club or other gardening organization has events that are open to the public, email me the information at connie@buffaloniagaragardening.com and I’ll share it with our other readers on our Events page. At the Genesee Country…...

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Oct 8, 2013
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Orchid Show set for Saturday & Sunday at Botanical Gardens

In conjunction with the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society, the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens will host the fall Orchid Show Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m.and Sunday, Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. Whether orchids are your passion or simply just a hobby, the Orchid Show offers beautiful and award-winning displays. Get your orchid questions answered. Specialty vendors will also offer a plant sale including merchandise…...

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Oct 7, 2013
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Grants available to towns, school districts for tree projects

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is accepting applications for urban forestry project grants. The deadline is Dec. 5. Communities can apply for tree planting, maintenance grants or invasive pest studies in cases involving an infestation of the emerald ash borer or the Asian long horned beetle. Grants are available to municipalities, public benefit corporations, public authorities, school districts and not-for-profit organizations that have a public ownership interest in the property or are acting on behalf of…...

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Oct 4, 2013
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Heirloom vegetables connect us with previous generations; learn more at fair

by Connie Oswald Stofko Starting in 1910, Jim Tammaro’s great-grandmother grew lovely flowers, a dianthus called ‘maiden pinks’, in the garden of her Rochester home. In 1960, his aunt took some of the plants to her home. In the 1980s, when his aunt died at the age of 93, the plants were turned over to Tammaro. Now Tammaro carries on the legacy, growing the maiden pinks outside the front door of his Williamsville home. Growing these plants that have a…...

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Oct 1, 2013
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Amherst Arboretum project to be recognized at bi-national conference

The Amherst Conservation Advisory Council will be recognized for the Arboretum at Amherst State Park Project at the 2013 Conference on the Environment: A Bi-National Summit be held Thursday and Friday, Oct. 3 and 4, at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Buffalo. The conference is for environmental professionals and community leaders from the United States and Canada. The public can attend the conference’s opening event, an evening with Gord Downie, front man for the band The Tragically Hip, at 6…...

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Oct 1, 2013
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roller coaster effect in garden bed from Chet Okonczak Cheektowaga

Add interest to your WNY garden with a roller coaster effect

by Connie Oswald Stofko Here’s a tip for designing a new perennial bed. You can use this tip now– Fall is a great time to plant  perennials and start a new garden in Western New York. There’s still plenty of time for the plants to set roots. We all know one general design rule is to place taller plants in back and shorter plants in front. But Chet Okonczak of Cheektowaga, whose garden we saw in the spring, has interesting…...

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Oct 1, 2013
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Tips: Keep cats from eating plants and keep bees from bothering you

by Connie Oswald Stofko I had a great time recently speaking to the Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club. What a fun group! They gave me a some great tips that I want to share with you. A member has trouble with cats eating her indoor plants. What can she plant that cats won’t eat? One audience member suggested aloe. Her cat chomped on her aloe plant– but only once. Apparently the cat didn’t like the pointy parts. Well, the questioner…...

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Sep 24, 2013
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Check out the new features of our Events page

Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com offers you the largest, most up-to-date list of gardening events in Western New York. Now we’ve added some new features to make it even easier for you to find the events that interest you. In the black ribbon across the top of the page, you’ll see Events. You can click on that and you’ll see a list of upcoming gardening events listed in chronological order. It looks a lot like our previous Events page, so you’ll find that familiar…...

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Sep 24, 2013
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See new landscape design at Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo during free event

What would Olmsted do now? That’s the question designers attempted to answer as they created a new landscape for the Richardson Olmsted Complex, a National Historic Landmark. The designers wanted to remain true to the original intent of acclaimed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted while addressing concerns of the 21st century. You can see the new landscape during an event for the public called South Lawn Celebration from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at the complex, 400…...

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Sep 24, 2013
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A thought at the beginning of autumn in WNY

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” ~ Samuel Butler, Victorian author      …...

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Sep 24, 2013
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