Tag: Upcoming events for Buffalo area

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,…...

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 Three different plant sales are set at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. First is the orchid sale, which will take place from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, March 7 in the Administration Building. The sale will include all types of orchids from the the recent orchid exhibit as well as orchids from the Botanical Gardens’ collection. You may want to get there early; the sale will continue only…...

There was the Snowvember storm in 2014, which brought down trees and damaged mature shrubs. Even if you were lucky enough to have missed that, all of us in Western New York have experienced high winds, heavy snow and brutally cold temperatures this winter. And every year many gardeners contend with deer and rabbits, which can cause damage to our landscapes. Find out what you can do about damage to your landscape at a free talk by gardening expert Sally…...