Tag: Upcoming events for Buffalo area

Learn from a professional when you attend the Garden Education Series at Graycliff, home to historic gardens designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with contributions from Ellen Biddle Shipman, pioneering landscape architect. Emma Hahn, Graycliff’s head gardener, will lead you through techniques you can use in your own garden. Hahn is an International Society of Arborists certified Arborist trained at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Each session has a different focus. The series has been scheduled to make use of Graycliff’s historic gardens…....

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff and three more southtowns cultural sites have teamed up to encourage visitation this summer with a brand-new Southtowns Cultural Passport. This free passport is available at all five locations. With regular admission or a tour, visitors can collect a stamp at each stop in their passport. At their final destination, they will turn the passport in be entered to win a special prize pack valued at over $450; it includes a one-year family membership…...

The Western New York Rose Society will hold its annual  Rose Show from 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Sunday, June 11. For the first time, the show will be held at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. (Go to the Administration Building.) You will be able to see the Rose Show and tour the Botanical Gardens; the show is included with admission. Get tickets here. The society members will display the best roses grown in their own…...

Are you the kind of person who likes to make sure you get to garden walks early so you can pick up a map, decide which gardens you want to see most, and still have plenty of time to visit the gardens? When you make a donation by Thursday, June 15, you can get the map for both Garden Walk Buffalo and the East Side Garden Walk mailed to you before the tours! Your donation supports not only these tours,…...

The Ken-Ton Garden Tour is now accepting applications for this year’s tour. The deadline is Friday, June 2. All gardeners in the Town of Tonawanda and Village of Kenmore are welcome to apply. You can register online; see application here. The online registration process is simple, quick, and easy to use. If you wish to apply by telephone you can contact Sandy at 716-983-6827. You may display your garden during one or more of the times listed below: Visitors to…...

The Amherst Garden Walk is looking for gardeners to share their landscapes. The deadline to sign up is Saturday, June 17.  See the registration form here.  The organizers are looking for gardens of all sizes and shapes, and designed by amateurs or professionals.   The walk will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 8 and 9.  For more information, contact Darryl Moden or Chuck Hidy at 716-839-0018…....

The Western New York Iris Society will hold its Iris and Perennial Flower Show from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 3 at at the Julia B. Reinstein Library, 1030 Losson Rd., Cheektowaga. Anyone can enter to win ribbons and awards. Irises & perennials To enter irises and perennials: People who want to enter plants in the show should be at the Reinstein Library by 9 a.m. Judging will occur from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Design People can make reservations to make a…...

Time is running out to add your garden to Garden Walk Buffalo, America’s largest garden tour. The deadline to sign up is Monday, May 15. Sign up here. Anyone who has a garden in the footprint of Garden Walk Buffalo can participate. Your garden does not need to be perfect; no one’s ever is. There are no fancy garden criteria–no site visits, no judging, no entry fees, nothing– all you have to do is be proud of your little spot…...

by Connie Oswald Stofko Many nonprofit organizations are holding plant sales in the coming days and weeks throughout Western New York. More sales or plant exchanges may be added; check our Events page for the latest on gardening activities. African violet show & sale, Amherst The African Violet & Gesneriad Society of WNY will present Meteorological Violets and Gesneriads on Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7 at the John James Audubon Library, 350 John James Audubon Parkway, Amherst. Times are noon…...