upstate gardeners' journal july-aug '10

Volume Sixteen, Issue FourJuly-August 2010FREE

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of the CSWA.canWe will allow 10 students for this class, offered at the nursery. A wonderful weekend with one of the most insightful teachers on the subject of stone. John has traveled the world teaching and

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contentsEar to the Ground ............................................................................... 6

You ask...the experts answer ......................................................... 7

Almanac what to do in the garden in july and august ................................... 10

A hidden garden of non-hardy delights ............................... 14

The making of a drought garden............................................. 18

Calendar ............................................................................................... 24

Summer recipes ................................................................ 32

Broadway Market's rooftop garden ................................ 34

Here a Bradford, there a Bradford.................................. 38

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Ear to the groundKeep up-to-date with all the latest green happenings—visit our companion blog at upstategardener.blogspot.com or find us at facebook.com/gardenersjournal

looking to add some glamour to your garden? check out this year’s annual gathering of gardeners symposium, held at the eisenhart auditorium at the rochester Museum and science center and hosted by the Master gardeners of the Monroe county cooperative extension, saturday, september 11. bill hendricks, of ohio’s practically legendary klyn nurseries, will give two talks—first about mixing shrubs in with perennials for a more beautiful border, and in the afternoon tackling dwarf conifers, “an investment in garden treasures.”

c. l. fornari, an author, teacher, blogger,

radio host designer and consultant hailing from Massachusetts, focuses on integrating the joys of gardening into one’s everyday life. her talks are entitled “The top 25” and “Myths, lies and the latest dirt.”

tickets, $48 per person, are available through september 9 in person at extension offices, 249 highland avenue, rochester, or by mail—download the registration form (and get more details) at gatheringofgardeners.com. lunch is available at an additional cost and there is a $5 discount for registrations postmarked by august 1.

Rcgc tAkEs on WEBstER

Each July the Rochester Civic Garden Center’s tour focuses on a different local area, and this year the spotlight is on Webster. Once Executive Director Christine Froehlich got to digging, she says, she uncovered several fabulous gardens that tour-goers are not likely to have seen before (there is also an old favorite or two on the roster).

The tour takes place July 10 from 10 am until 4 pm, rain or shine. Information and tickets ($15 for members, $20 for non-members) are available at rcgc.org or by calling 585/473-5130.

if you’ve ever driven on the new york state Thruway west toward buffalo, you’ve passed—and surely noticed—the batavia turf billboard and the acres of sod behind it. This is the where batavia turf began, 50 years ago in 1960. now, between this field and its elba location, the company grows about 300 acres of turf grass yearly.

batavia turf provides fresh turf for athletic fields,

golf courses and lawns to landscapers, municipalities, schools and retail outlets. They also sell natural sand baseball infield products like mound clay and infield mix, an area in which they are steadily gaining customer loyalty.

we wish our friends at batavia turf a very happy 50th birthday and many years of continued success.

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if you start seeing a lot of references to western new york on your favorite gardening blogs in the near future, this might be why: buffalo is host to buffa10, this year’s (third) annual garden bloggers meet up, july 8 – 11. The roster of attendees boasts bloggers from coast to coast and canada—some well known, and others relative newcomers. The group will tour public and private gardens and a select garden center

or two. watch for the resulting posts on the internet during and after the event. notable sites represented include gardenrant.com, coldclimategardening.com (blogger kathy purdy is a frequent ugj contributor), artofgardening.com and gardeningwhileintoxicated.com. you can learn more about the event at buffa10.com (that’s b-u-f-f-a-one-zero). The meet up is a part of this summer’s national buffalo garden festival.

BloggERs dEscEnd on BuFFAlo

This july marks the fifteenth anniversary of garden walk buffalo, an event that, over the past few years, has become a national sensation in the gardening world, gaining more great press than we can even keep track of. garden walk is a free event, held the last weekend in july (this year, that’s the 24th and 25th), that opens up about 350 (mostly) private city gardens to—get this—more than 45,000 attendees. have you been?

garden walk attracts thousands of out-of-town visitors, but it lasts just one weekend. so last year,

a group of tourism and green industry pros came up with an idea: why not have a month-long lead up to the big event, with speakers, farm and wine trail bus tours, open gardens outside of the garden walk area, an appearance by the buffalo philharmonic, and more? The national buffalo garden festival began june 18th and runs through july 25th and promises tourists and locals alike more gardening events than they could possibly fit into their schedules. full details are at nationalgardenfestival.com.

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Questions & answers

You ask...The experts answer

Q: We bought a pink dogwood tree in 2007 from a reputable nursery in the area. They told us that it probably would not have blossoms in 2008 but would flower after that.

Well, it is 2010 and we are still not getting flowers on our tree. The tree is very healthy looking and has grown to about 15 - 20 feet.

When we didn’t have any flowers last year, I called the nursery and was told to fertilize by spacing several holes around the tree, moving out to the tree drip line and to put fertilizer in these holes. I did that.

I called again this year and they say they haven’t a clue why I’m not getting flowers. They have offered to give me a credit, but as I said, the tree seems very healthy and I hate to get rid of it.

The tree is a little over 12 feet tall and about 11 feet wide. I live in Webster, NY, about a block from Lake Ontario.—K. P., via email

A: first, fertilizing the tree leaps to mind, but you asked the nursery you purchased the tree from and they recommended that and it did not help. The method they instructed on application is good but you didn’t say what kind of fertilizer was used or the timing of the application. you should be using a fertilizer that has a higher amount of phosphorus than nitrogen. phosphorus is the middle number on the fertilizer analysis (npk or nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium). a fertilizer such as 5-10-5 would be good. This will promote flowers and bud set. it is possible that the tree is putting all its energy into making green leafy growth and does not have any left to form flowers. Therefore the timing of the fertilization should be in late spring (after the tree normally would

have bloomed) to summer. typically fertilizing after july can be tricky, the new growth can be hit by an early frost.

second, dogwoods set their flower buds the year before the display (like a lilac would). pruning dogwoods if necessary typically should be done soon after the flowering occurs.

i would suggest marking a calendar with a note to fertilize and also when to examine the branches and check for flower bud set. check around labor day for flower bud set. The flower buds will be round in shape, the leaf buds longer, pointier

and opposite one another. The tree should set flower buds this fall. be sure not to prune the tree after the flower buds have been formed.

last year trees kept on putting new growth almost all summer because of the large amount of rain that we had. let’s say everything goes fine and you have flower buds set and they make it through the winter. check for buds in March, if they are still there, great, but you’re still not guaranteed flowers. The last two years we have had very warm aprils, which have pushed the new growth on trees very fast. Then May was cold and we had several frosts, another potential threat to the flower buds and new growth. unfortunately there is not much you can do for this, but maybe next spring will be nice with a steady and gradual increase in temperatures.

one other point: you did not mention what species or variety the dogwood is. cornus florida is more likely to be susceptible to damage from cold weather than cultivars from the species cornus kousa. if the tree continues to set bud and lose them then maybe you could add another tree to your yard, choosing a cultivar that is more hardy and locally produced to ensure hardiness to our climate.

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Almanac

What to do in the gardenIn July and August

julY

Ornamentalsdivide your bearded irises as soon as possible to

give them more time to establish roots before winter (in order to prevent heaving). cut out and destroy old or rotten rhizomes, or those with iris borers. your cooperative extension office has a factsheet about iris borer prevention and treatment.

deadhead some perennials to keep them blooming (e.g., gaillardia). deadhead others to keep the garden tidy, to avoid too much self-sowing, and to avoid the plant spending energy on seed production. keep deadheading annuals for extended bloom.

cut back some mounding perennials, if you haven’t already done it, when they are finished blooming, such as geraniums, pinks, alyssum, creeping phlox, and aubretia.

prune some perennials for longer bloom and better-looking plants, such as spiderwort (see tracy disabato-aust’s book, “The well-tended perennial garden”).

keep your container plants well watered, and plan to fertilize them. Their limited root systems often mean that fertilization or some sort will be needed before the end of the season.

continue to water newly planted woody plants if rain is lacking: 10 to 15 gallons of water each week when there isn’t one inch of rain. invest in a rain gauge; it’s very illuminating and educational to keep track of one’s rainfall.

keep water gardens full if evaporation lowers the water level.

deadhead japanese tree lilacs as much as you can. This will encourage more bloom next year and prevent unwanted seedlings (i just pulled up about four dozen!)

continue to mow your lawn, as needed. Mowing as high as your lawnmower will allow, will result in a healthier lawn, with deeper roots more tolerant of drought, and denser turf that will prevent some weed seeds from germinating.

start some perennials from seed, but plan on overwintering them in your cold frame.

if you like to mail-order your spring-blooming bulbs, get your catalogues together and start planning your order.

Ediblesearly in july: remove peas and other early

veggies and replace with either quick-growing veggies such as snap beans, cucumbers, summer squash, green onions, beets, kohlrabi, and radishes, or else cool-tolerant, slower-growing veggies such as carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, collards, kale, peas, head and romaine lettuce, and parsley. after aug. 1, only plantings of leaf lettuce, spinach, turnips, and radishes can be expected to produce a crop in a normal year (this advice is true in central new york – if your garden is in zone 6 near the lake, you have another week or two of growing season).

renew the mulch in your veggie garden. dried grass clippings and/or leaves (rotted or not) make good free mulches.

keep up with weeding! if you can’t remove all the weeds right away, at least don’t let them go to seed.

cover blueberry plants before birds discover the

ABovE: Cut your re-blooming roses back slightly. By the time they re-bloom, adult Japanese beetles will be mostly gone.

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fruit. if it’s dry, water the plants well. i like to use large buckets, with holes drilled in the bottom, for slow deep watering (this also allows you to measure how much you are applying). before renewing the mulch, do a ph test. if the ph is higher than 5.5, consider broadcasting sulfur on the ground and watering it in before mulching. your cooperative extension office can test your soil’s ph and advise you how much sulfur to apply.

keep cutting your basil plants back hard, and they will grow bushier and produce more. blanch your basil before freezing, to prevent browning of the leaves.

remove spotted leaves from your tomatoes (put them in the trash). a layer of fresh mulch may help to interrupt fungus infection from the old mulch or soil.

keep raspberries picked, especially if the weather is wet or humid.

August

Ornamentalsdo not fertilize woody plants after july, in order to avoid tender

growth that won’t have time to harden off before winter. continue to water newly planted woodies (see july).visit local nurseries and rescue plants on sale. get them planted

by mid-september in order for them to become established before winter.

collect bulbils from the leaf axils of tiger lilies and sow them where you want more.

in late august, plant corms of either Colchicums or the true autumn crocus (Crocus speciosus, etc.) as soon as they are available. They will bloom each year in september or october.

if there’s a drought, let your lawn go dormant (brown) and enjoy the break from mowing. it will green up when the rains resume.

divide or move spring-blooming perennials late in the summer, when it starts to get cooler and moister, to give them time to get established before winter.

late in august, bring in poinsettia and christmas cactus to get them adapted to indoor conditions. start exposing them to long nights (short days) in order for flowerbuds to set. This is also a good time to start bringing in houseplants, before nights cool off too much outside, and heating systems start operating. be sure to check for insects first.

late august, through early september, is the best time to start a new lawn. consult your cooperative extension office for instructions.

Ediblesif your blueberry harvest is winding down, consider adding the

cultivar ‘elliott’, which will produce a late crop of fruit (until labor day most years).

if you grow ‘heritage’ fall-bearing red raspberry, and lose some of the crop to early fall frosts most years, consider getting one of the newer fall-bearing cultivars that start to fruit earlier.

keep harvesting summer squash and cucumbers to keep them producing.

Make sure your tomatoes have enough water, to avoid blossom-end rot.

keep your compost moist so that decomposition continues.

— Pat Curran, Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners Program

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A hidden garden of non-hardy delights

it’s known simply as the hidden garden, and it’s a little tricky to find the first time. it’s on the south side of cornell’s plant science building, near the

entrance to the liberty hyde bailey conservatory. professor nina bassuk’s former office looked out onto the garden, and she works with students on it now. “it’s our ‘hot’ garden,” she says. “it is so protected we can grow plants there that are not hardy in ithaca.”

bassuk says that until 1999, the hidden garden had four walls, but the south wall was removed, making it more accessible to the public. the garden’s been in existence since the 1920s or 30s and though not initially a student project, has come to be a teaching garden with student involvement.

she says, “because it is so protected, we have gotten away with planting southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) and silk tree or mimosa (Albizia julibrissin). i also love the japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and leucothoe (Leucothoe axillaris). it is also the only place on campus where cannas (Canna sp.) are perennial. it also has an ancient english ivy (Hedera helix) vine.”

bassuk, an urban horticulture expert whose research pursuits include woody plant propagation,

thinks that the english ivy in the courtyard was used in the early 1960s work of plant physiologist charles hess. hess’s study of english ivy propagation led to the discovery of rooting co-factors in juvenile plant tissue, something that proved fundamentally useful knowledge for plant propagators. rooting cofactors include phenolic and terpenoid compounds; they work together with the plant hormone auxin in bringing on root initiation. in his accessible and fascinating article in the March 1973 edition of the journal Arnoldia, “plant propagation—the union of art and science,” hess explains:

an excellent example of a plant in which the effects of juvenility can be studied is Hedera helix. the juvenile cuttings root very readily with or without treatment with root promoting substances. in contrast, the mature cuttings root with extreme difficulty even though root promoting substances may be added. we have found that there are no substantial differences in the auxin or root promoting substances, or root inhibiting

by Michelle Sutton

ABovE: The Hidden Garden at the side of Cornell’s Plant Science Building

substances, in the juvenile and mature tissues. however, another group of substances which we have referred to as rooting co-factors appear to be in greater concentration in the juvenile tissues.

thus the humble hidden garden Hedera helix’s place in the hallowed halls of rooting cofactors was secured.

the tropical-looking silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) in the hidden garden is 15 to 20 feet tall and has fern-like, bipinnately compound foliage. the tree is most arresting when in bloom in midsummer with showy pink fragrant threads (the threads are the stamens). normally it would not do well in ithaca’s usda Zone 5b/6a--but the radiant building heat in the courtyard gives it the extra warmth it needs.

this Albizia specimen in the hidden garden should be safe from the vascular wilt (Fusarium-caused) plaguing the tree in warmer parts of the u.s. likewise the tree’s weedy and invasive reputation is not realized in upstate new york. here it’s just a challenge finding a spot warm enough to grow it. silk tree is in the pea (fabaceae) family. you are likely familiar with silk tree’s cousin, sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica). the leaflets of Albizia close gradually at night, but i didn’t get any response when i touched its leaves. there are over 100 species in the Albizia genus, including A. coreana, with yellow flowers. the purple leaf A. julibrissin ‘summer chocolate’ is being sold regionally for use as a container planting.

southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is only hardy to Zone 7, so you won’t see it in many places in ithaca. in the south it gets to be 60 to 80 feet tall and is an important residential, park, and urban tree there (for street use, its lower limbs are removed). the large glossy evergreen leaves (sometimes semi-evergreen when its cold hardiness is tested) with brown fuzzy undersides are extremely handsome and dotted with large fragrant white flowers on and off through summer. if you want to try to grow it in upstate new york, you could try M. grandiflora ‘bracken’s brown beauty’, reputed to be hardy to Zone 5b. there is a specimen of ‘bracken’s brown beauty’ near the pounder heritage vegetable garden at cornell plantations.

interesting side note from ed gilman and dennis watson in their university of florida fact sheet about southern magnolia: “the root system is wider spreading than most other trees, extending from the trunk a distance equal to about four times [our emphasis] the canopy width. this makes it very difficult to save existing magnolia trees on construction sites.”

a wee marginally hardy japanese umbrella pine (Sciadopyts verticillata) is growing well in the hidden garden; it is so tidy and shiny, it looks like a plastic tree. there are also five specimens in cornell plantations, including the cultivars ‘sternschnuppe’ and ‘winter green’; the latter two can be found in

the Mullestein winter garden. to find locales of all five, see the marvelous find a plant feature at www.cornellplantations.edu. it will list the specimens and provide maps to each.

S. verticillata ‘winter green’ is known for its narrow habit and foliage that stays bright green in winter. ‘sternschnuppe’ is a dwarf (read: slow-growing plant, not true miniature) that is only expected to reach 4 to 5 feet tall in 10 years. there are no fewer than 45 cultivars of the beguiling japanese umbrella pine listed


To get to the Hidden Garden: Find the Plant Science Building on Tower Road on the Cornell campus. Enter at the south side like you are going to visit the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory, but instead of turning right into the conservatory, make a little shimmy to the left, go outside, and turn left.

toP: Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)

ABovE: Silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)

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at bethlehemnursery.com. note the waxy thick needles of japanese umbrella

pine with the white groove running down the center. according to james eckenwalder in Conifers of the World, the needles are understood to be “a pinelike dwarf shoot in which two needles have become fused side to side, the compound origin reflected in two widely separated, complete vascular bundles and a median groove both above and below.”

finally, see if you can find the hidden garden’s japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), with its short (less than a centimeter) evergreen needles arranged in spirals. it is japan’s national tree, where it is known as “sugi” and planted around temples and shrines. it’s hardy to Zone 5 but does not do well with winter winds. in japan and china, this redwood relative (cupressaceae family) can grow to 150 feet! but here in upstate, it will be far, far more petite. a dwarf, C. japonica ‘black dragon’, is available locally and expected to get no taller than 10-12 feet. the hidden garden specimen is perhaps not as exciting as the other trees mentioned here, but it gets points for its mere survival in our climate—if it had legs, i’m sure it would high-tail it south.

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Healthy garden

the making of a drought gardenForm follows function... Right up the driveway

the summer before last convinced me that climate change is for real. here, in normally wet upstate new york, we had the driest May

on record, and by the end of the summer we were over eight inches short on rain. we had a record 15 days of ninety plus weather – some years we’ve had none - and the water in our earth-bottom pond fell 18 inches to its lowest level in its nine year existence.

for the gardener - that would be me - the lack of rain meant hauling hoses and buckets to keep my new

plantings alive. Most of my gardens are close enough to a faucet so i can water them with a sprinkler or soaker hose, and luckily, we installed an automatic watering system for the rose garden a few years ago. There was no way to water one of my gardens, though, and much to my amazement, it survived. it taught me how we may have to garden in the future, even in the water-rich northeast.

living, as we do, between one of the great lakes and the finger lakes, we tend to take adequate and

by Mary Ruth Smith

ABovE: In late summer, perennial sunflowers and grasses are now the stars of the show.


cheap water supplies for granted. Xeric gardening, or dry gardening, we think only applies to arid places like arizona and california. after that summer, i saw that we need to rethink our approach to the water requirements of our gardens.

i wish i could say that i carefully designed the plantings after studying their xeric qualities, but like so many of my best garden effects, it was serendipity – in other words, dumb luck. The garden started as a place to put the daylilies i brought from our old house. i planted them hurriedly in a single row in the terrible rocky clay soil along the gravel drive leading to our new house, alternating them with daffodils, which would provide early spring color and then be hidden by the daylilies as their foliage faded.

you could hardly call it a design, and it was only partially successful. The deer found the daylily buds especially tasty, and the bulbs were too sparse to make much of a show. a bed 140 feet long and about a foot wide looks more than a little strange. i didn’t call it a bed, in fact – it was just the daylily row.

as the grass grew and filled in, it encroached on the plants and was too hard to keep weeded. we mowed between the driveway and the flowers, but in back of the bed was a wild area of weeds and brambles, not the best background for a garden. because it was too far from the house to reach with a hose and too long to water by hand, it was on its own from the beginning.

at first, rain was plentiful, and the plants made a better showing each year, with little or no help from me, but after a few years, i decided that something had to be done about that whole area as it was the first impression visitors received of my garden – a weedy row of flowers in front of a tangle of jungle-y growth. we gradually cleared the thicket of wild roses, raspberries, honeysuckle, grapevines, goldenrod, swallowwort and poison ivy. when we started mowing behind the daylily row, it became immediately obvious that the bed was too narrow.

laying down a thick layer of newspapers covered with bark is the way i clear ground for a new bed, and i used this method to widen the bed in front and back. That got rid of most of the grass and weeds. i had several large clumps of ornamental grasses scattered in other gardens, which we dug up, divided – with an axe – and put behind the daylilies. coneflowers and black-eyed susans had reseeded prolifically in other parts of my garden, and i needed someplace to put them, so they went into the back row, too. when i saw how nice that looked, i added boltonia and perennial sunflowers for late-summer bloom and moved iris from its crowded bed for early color. daylilies in other parts of the garden were consolidated in the expanded bed in front and back to take away some of the straight-line look of the row. one fall, we tilled a row along the front edge in front of the daffodils and i planted about 800 grape

hyacinths, which i hope will eventually form a blue river, a la the bulb display at keukenhof, in holland. a pair of Mellow yellow® spiraeas (Spiraea thunbergii ‘ogon’) marks the ends of the bed and adds a little structure.

like all of my gardens, this one is a work in progress. at the end of last summer, i took Verbena bonariensis and forget-me-not plants that had gone to seed and shook them over the drought garden. i have no doubt that i will have a haze of blue in spring and a taller purple haze in summer and fall from those invaluable filler plants. i’ve found a few more daylilies lurking in odd places - might as well put them all together. i’ve grown to appreciate the impact of a broad sweep of one plant, and for a plantaholic who wants one of everything, that’s been a struggle.

The very best thing we did to help this garden survive was mulching it with a thick layer of shredded leaves. i did it originally to control the weeds, but it really earned its keep during that summer’s drought. when i added some new plants, i found the soil under the mulch was still moist while unmulched ground was bone-dry and rock-hard.

now a four-season garden greets visitors – and us. daffodils and grape hyacinths welcome spring, followed by iris and early lemon lilies. then comes the long summer season of the daylilies, rudbeckia, and echinacea, followed in autumn by boltonia, perennial sunflowers and the flowering of the ornamental grasses, which continue to put on a show all winter. all of these plants have shown that they can survive with very little water and still look good. the daylily row has become the dry garden. if this happened more or less by accident, think what wonderful dry gardens could be made with more deliberate planning. of course, i water each plant thoroughly as it’s planted and amend the soil with as much compost as i can spare, but after that, it’s goodnight and good luck.

ABovE: In winter, the grasses carry on while everything else sleeps under a heavy layer of shredded leaves.

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REgulAR cluB MEEtings8th district Federated garden clubs of new York

state inc. Judy Tucholski-Zon, District Director: 716/836-2573. gardenclubsofwny.com.

African violet and gesneriad society of WnY meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm, Depew High School Cafeteria, 5201 Transit Rd., Depew. 716/652-8658. [email protected]. gesneriadsociety.org/chapters/WNY.

garden Friends of clarence meets the second Wednesday of the month at 7 pm, September – June, Town Park Clubhouse, 10405 Main Street, Clarence. [email protected].

Hamburg garden club meets the second Wednesday of every month at noon, summer garden tours, 3921 Monroe Avenue, Hamburg. 716/648-0275.

niagara Frontier Pond & koi club meets the second Friday of each month at 7 pm, St. Agatha’s Church Maguire Hall, 51 Alamo Place, Buffalo. nfkpc.org.

Western new York Herb study group meets the second Wednesday of the month at 7 pm, Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo.

Western nY Hosta society, contact for meeting dates and location. 716/941-6167. [email protected].

Western nY Rose society meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm, St. Stephens-Bethlehem United Church of Christ, 750 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. wnyrosesociety.org.

Williamson garden club. On-going community projects; free monthly lectures to educate the community about gardening. Open to all. 315-524-4204. [email protected]. grow-thewilliamsongardenclub.blogspot.com.

WnY iris society meets at members’ homes. Next meeting: September 12, 2 pm. Guests welcome. Registration required. Maria: 716/632-8069. [email protected].

clAssEs / EvEnts• indicates activities especially appropriate for

children and families.

j indicates a garden tour.

ongoing through july 25: national Buffalo garden Festival. A five week celebration of the greater Buffalo area’s garden walks, talks, tours and events. Garden Walk Buffalo and 14 other garden tours, Botanical Gardens, Erie Basin Marina Gardens, Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, Botanical Print Exhibition, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concerts in parks, Elmwood-Bidwell Farmer’s Market, garden themed Gusto at the Gallery, and more. nationalgardenfestival.com

ongoing through september 26: in the garden: the Art of Botanical illustration. Throughout history, botanical illustration has been both an art form and a tool to share knowledge. This exhibit showcases treasures of the Library’s rare book collection, flora portrayed in the ever-changing beauty of nature or sorted into scientific categories to impart order. Free. Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo.

july 3: Mushrooms, Mosses and Ferns, 10:30 am. Explore the mysterious world of flowerless plants and fungi. Free. Registration required. REin

july 4: summer Pond care, 10 am. Learn how to

deal with algae and other summer pond issues with Rich Groblewski, water garden specialist, as he discusses solutions and treatments for clear, clean water. Recommended for those who now have water gardens and ponds. Q&A session. Registration required. MEnnE

• july 7: Alien invaders, 6:30 pm. Invasive species are plants that can spread quickly and harm the environment. Adults will learn how they can help stop the spread of invasive species; children will play an “Alien Invaders” game. Free. Julia Boyer Reinstein Library, Losson Road. REin

j july 10: orchard Parkway garden Walk, 10 am – 3 pm. Over 60 gardens within a quarter mile walk on two city streets. Free. 1302 Main St., corner Orchard Parkway & Main, Niagara Falls. orchardparkway.com.

j july 10 – 11: lockport in Bloom, 10 am – 4 pm. Self-guided walking/driving tour featuring more than 46 private and public gardens. Rain or shine. Free. Maps available after July 1 at City Hall, Discover Center, Kenan Center, Zehr’s on the Lake, Boka Farms, Badding Bros., Faery’s (Ransonville), Stedman’s Nursery, LaRosa’s. 716/434-2380; 716/439-1524.

j july 10 – 11: village of Hamburg garden Walk and Fair, 10 am – 4 pm. Self-guided tour. Vendors. Art show Sunday only. Maps: Memorial Park, corner of Lake and Union Streets, Hamburg. 716/648-7544. hamburggardenwalk.com.

j july 10 – August 1: garden Walks, Saturdays 10 am – 4 pm; Sundays 12 – 4 pm. Two Orchard Park gardens, about a mile apart, at your leisure. Enjoy extensive country gardens, a pond filled with fish and water lilies, over 700 registered varieties of daylilies and thousands of seedlings. 6047 Seufert Road. 716/648-0094. The second, designated a Backyard Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, features a biologically-filtered water garden surrounded by a large perennial garden connected by stone and flagstone pathways. Woods, pines & Japanese maples are incorporated into an English cottage garden & wildflower prairie. 6346 Ward Road. 716/648-7085.

j july 11: snyder-cleveHill garden view, 10 am – 4 pm. Tour includes approximately 30 gardens in the Snyder and Cleveland Hill neighborhoods. Maps available day of, Trillium Courtyard Florist, corner Darwin Dr. and Kensington Ave. $3 donation appreciated. Car or bike recommended. hkccommunity.com.

j july 11: Akron in Bloom, 12 – 4 pm. Showcasing gardens in Akron and Newstead. $7; $5 advance: Bedford’s Greenhouse, 6820 Cedar Street, Akron; Newstead Historical Society. 716/542-7022.

july 11: Plant societies’ Bloomin’ show, 1 – 4 pm. Judged shows: Japanese iris (WNY Iris Society),

hosta blooms (WNY Hosta Society). Exhibits: daylily blooms (Buffalo Area Daylily Society), Ikebana floral arrangements. Members of the three societies will be available for Q&A. Buffalo Chapter 50, Ikebana Society will use Japanese iris, hosta blooms and daylilies in a design workshop, 2 pm. Rudolph Galley & Sons Greenhouses, 2722 Clinton Street, West Seneca.

july 11: native & invasive species Hike, 2 – 4 pm. Gain an understanding of the benefits of plants that are native to Western New York, as well as the challenges of invasive species. Tips and hints will be shared with gardeners on how they can landscape their yard with native plants, for the protection and preservation of native wildlife. Free. Registration required: 716/687-1225; [email protected]. Presented by Western New York Land Conservancy. wnylc.org.

july 14: Mysterious Mushrooms, 6:30 pm. On warm rainy days mushrooms sprout up quickly in the woods and they can disappear in a few hours. Learn the answers to many questions and explore the world of fungi. Free. Julia Boyer Reinstein Library, Losson Road. REin

july 15: summer: A celebration of life, 9:30 – 11 am. Enjoy a stroll through the garden, field and woods to experience the beauties of the natural world. Learn how to create your own wonderland, no matter how large or small the lot. $30. Registration required. Lana’s The Little House. 716/965-2798. [email protected]. lanasthelittlehouse.com.

j july 17: Amherst garden Walk, 9 am – 5 pm. Day of: Amherst Town Hall, 5583 Main Street, 9 am – 3 pm; Williamsville Meeting House, 5658 Main Street, 9 am – 3 pm; 1445 Maple Road, 9 am – 4 pm. Free. Rain date: July 18, 10 am – 6 pm. [email protected]

july 17: small space landscape Plants, 10 am. Picking the right plant for the right place is extra important when gardening in small spaces. Lana Bilger will show a selection of dwarf, miniature and slow growing trees and shrubs to consider when choosing plants for small spaces. Registration required. MEnnE

j july 17: Avoca-Wallace garden tour, 10 am – 2 pm. $10 advance. $12 day of: Cross my Heart, Avoca. Proceeds benefit Avoca Beautification Committee-Gazebo Restoration.

j july 17: clarence Hollow in Bloom, 10 am – 4 pm. Driving and walking tour featuring 22 gardens. $5. Day of: Clarence Garden Club at Farmers Market, Main Street, between Ransom & Salt Roads, 9 am – 1 pm. clarencehollow.org

j july 17: orchard Park Public garden tour, 10 am – 4 pm. Hosted by Orchard Park Garden Club. $5. Presale: Arthur’s Hardware, 6471 W. Quaker Street. Day of, 10 am - 2 pm: OP Historical Society/ Jolls House, 4287 South Buffalo Street. 716/662-1121. 716/674-6430.

j july 17: samuel P. capen garden Walk, 11 am – 4 pm. Self-guided tour of more than 60 private gardens and public spaces in the University Heights/District, Buffalo, Eggertsville, Amherst neighborhoods. The event is designed to encourage neighborhood beautification and to build community among neighbors. Maps 8 am – 1 pm: University Community Farmers Market, UB South Campus, Main Street; 11 am – 4 pm: 22 Larchmont Rd.; 135 Capen Blvd.; 17 Maynard Dr.; 38 Brinton St.; 201 Minnesota Ave.; 178 Minnesota Ave. Rain or shine. Free. ourheights.org/gardenwalk.html.

j july 17: grand island garden tour, 11 am – 5 pm. Self-guided. $12 before July 15: 716/773-4946. 716/773-2421. $15 day of: Historic Trinity Church,

FREquEnt Hosts

BEcBg: Buffalo & Erie county Botanical gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14218. $8 adults; $7 seniors (55+) & students (13+ with ID); $4 kids 3 – 12; free members and kids under 3. 716/827-1584; buffalogardens.com.

MEnnE: Menne nursery, 3100 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst, NY 14228. 716/693-4444; mennenursery.com.

REin: Reinstein Woods nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Drive, Depew, NY 14043. 716/683-5959; dec.ny.gov/education/1837.html.


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j july 17 – 18: lancaster garden Walk, 10 am – 4:30 pm. Self-guided, 50+ gardens. Free. Maps available July 15: Lancaster Deli, 155 Lake Ave; Broadway Deli, 5430 Broadway; Lancaster Bee; Depew Bee. lancastervillage.org.

j july 18: south Buffalo Alive, 9 am – 3 pm. $2. July 15 – 17: Caz Coffee Café, 688 Abbott Road. Day of: gazebo, Tim Russert’s Childrens Garden, South Park. southbuffaloalive.com.

july 22: Bus trip to cleveland Botanical gardens & Art Museum. Includes lunch, admissions, transportation, tips and taxes; with the exception of dinner on the way home. $95 members; $105 non-members. Registration required. BEcBg

july 24: What’s Bugging You?, 10 am. There are many potential problems that can affect plants including insects, diseases and improper planting and watering. While no one has all the answers, Lana Bilger will do her best to answer questions or to point you in the right direction to solve them. Bring examples in sealed clear plastic bags for analysis after class. Registration required. MEnnE

july 24: summer Wildflowers, 10:30 am. Search for the wildflowers of the summer season and learn their uses and folklore. Free. Registration required. REin

j july 24 – 25: garden Walk Buffalo, 10 am – 4 pm. Self-guided tour of more than 350 urban residential gardens. Free. Maps: Richmond-Summer Senior Center, corner Richmond Avenue

and Summer Street; Buffalo Seminary School, 205 Bidwell Parkway; AIDS Community Services, 206 South Elmwood Avenue. gardenwalkbuffalo.com.

• july 25: sunday Afternoon kids’ Activities, 12 – 2 pm. Ages 3 – 12. Garden-related activities vary each month; children must be accompanied by an adult. Free with admission. BEcBg

• july 28: knee-High naturalists, 10 am. Each hour-long session will feature a variety of activities such as stories, games, crafts and snacks. Ages 3 – 5. $10 member; $15 non-member. Registration required. REin

july 31: iris sale, 9 am – 2 pm. Hosted by the WNY Iris Society. Newer iris at bargain prices, hardy, northern grown. Order tall bearded iris in advance: 716/632-8069. Rudolph Galley & Sons Greenhouses, 2722 Clinton Street, West Seneca.

july 31: sounds shady to Me – Perennials, shrubs & trees for shade, 10 am. Shade is one of the most common problems experienced by gardeners and one of the easiest to overcome. Lana Bilger will focus on woody plants and perennials that offer the most success and pleasure for shady areas. Registration required. MEnnE

july 31 – August 1: Poetry and Posies Flower show, Saturday 12 – 6; Sunday 12 – 4. Federated Garden Club Standard Flower Show presented by East Aurora Garden Club. Floral arrangements, horticulture specimens, vegetables, educational exhibits. Free. Stonegate Mansion, 270 Buffalo Rd., East Aurora. gardenclubsofwny.com.

• August 2 – 6: kid’s Multi-Media Art camp, 9

am – 12 pm. Grades K-6. Week: $80 members; $90 non-members. Day: $17 members; $19 non-members. BEcBg

• August 4: knee-High naturalists, 10 am. See description under July 28. REin

August 7: Beyond Burning Bush – Plants for Fall color, 10 am. Lana Bilger will introduce Itea, Clethra, Fothergilla and other plants often overlooked. This review of alternative plants offers fantastic bloom, fruit and foliage for fall splendor. Learn which ones have the extra benefit of being resistant to deer. Registration required. MEnnE

j August 7: Black Rock & Riverside tour of gardens, 10 am - 5 pm. Self-guided tour features more than 90 gardens. Free. Maps ahead of time at area businesses. Day of: St. Mark’s Church, 311 Ontario St., Buffalo; Renovation Church, 567 Hertel Ave., Buffalo. 716/851-5116. brrgardenwalk.com.

j August 7: starry night garden tour, 8 pm - 10 pm. Self-guided tour features 25 well-lit gardens. Free. Maps ahead of time at area businesses. Day of: St. Mark’s Church, 311 Ontario St., Buffalo; Renovation Church, 567 Hertel Ave., Buffalo. 716/851-5116. brrgardenwalk.com.

j August 7 – 8: ken-ton garden tour, 10 am – 4 pm. Town of Tonawanda and village of Kenmore. Free. Tickets available July 28: Ken-Ton Aquatic Center, Sheridan Drive & Delaware Road; Kenmore Municipal Bldg, Delaware Ave & Delaware Road.


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August 12: Project learning tree Workshop, 9 am – 3:30 pm. Participants receive a Project Learning Tree book with activities emphasizing forest ecology and stewardship. For educators of students in grades K-8. Free. Registration required. REin

August 14: Pruning shrubs & vines, 10 am. Lana Bilger will give an over view of pruning shrubs and vines. She will show proper technique as well as what to prune off and timing. Registration required. MEnnE

• August 14: double dipping with Pollinators, 10:30 am. Discover the special relationship that hummingbirds, butterflies and other insects have with plants and their flowers. For adults and children ages 10+. Free. Registration required. REin

• August 16 – 20: kid’s Multi-Media Art camp, 9 am – 12 pm. See description under August 2. BEcBg


August 19: Bus trip to cornell Plantations. Tour Cornell Plantations’s theme gardens and arboretum. Wine tasting and cheese sampling, Six Mile Creek Vineyard. Includes lunch, wine and cheese, admissions, transportation, tips and taxes; with the exception of dinner on the way home. $95 members; $105 non-members. Registration required. BEcBg

August 19: the summer cottage garden: A Feast for the senses, 9:30 – 11 am. Enjoy a tour and learn a few secrets. Find out what makes Lana’s a destination for birds and butterflies. $30. Registration required. Lana’s The Little House.

716/965-2798. [email protected]. lanasthelittlehouse.com.

August 21: Hosta sale, 9 am – 2 pm. Many varieties available. Harvey D. Morin Post 965, Center Road, West Seneca.

August 21: daylily sale, 9 am – 2 pm. Presented by the Buffalo Daylily Society. Daylilies of all shapes, sizes and colors, reasonably priced. Harvey D. Morin Post 965, Center Road, West Seneca. [email protected].

August 21: Pruning trees, 10 am. Pruning trees will keep them strong and less susceptible to storm damage as well as encourage better growth, bloom and fruit production. Lana Bilger will share information on the right tools and techniques to use. Registration required. MEnnE

•August 22: sunday Afternoon kids’ Activities, 12 – 2 pm. See description under July 25. BEcBg


september 4: landscape design – developing the Backyard living Area, 10 am. Summer is the time to assess your landscape and plan for improvements and additions. Autumn offers cooler days and increased precipitation making it an excellent planting time. Strategic planning can provide privacy, fragrance, color, sound and increase usable space. Registration required. MEnnE

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Adirondack chapter, north American Rock garden society (Ac/nARgs), usually meets the third

Saturday of the month at 1 pm. acnargs.blogspot.com.




ongoing through september 4: summer drop-in tours in the Botanical garden, Saturdays, 12 pm. Enjoy a guided tour through several theme gardens and discover the beauty and diversity of the Plantations’s botanical collections. Actual tour content will vary from week to week, depending on the plants, season, interests of the group, and whim of the docent. Free. cP

ongoing through october 28: trumansburg Farmers Market, Wednesdays, 4 – 7 pm. Fresh locally grown produce, naturally-raised meats, eggs, flowers, herbs, many local crafters, live music, dinner. New community-build timber-frame pavilions. Village Park, Trumansburg, corner Rts. 96 and 227. 607/387-3892. [email protected]. trumansburg-ny.gov.

• july 11: garden chefs, 1 – 2:30 pm. Gardening, cooking, and culture combine in this program

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cP: cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. Inquire ahead for meeting places. 607/255-2400; cornellplantations.org.


in partnership with CERIS, Cornell Educational Resource for International Studies. Ages 7 – 12. $4. Ithaca Children’s Garden, Rt. 89 at Cass Park, Ithaca.

j july 11: southern cayuga garden club tour, 1 – 5 pm. Enjoy five gardens plus wine and cheese tasting. $10. Tickets available at King Ferry Winery. [email protected].

july 11: drawing garden Flowers, 1 – 5 pm. Sketch the abundant variety of cultivated plants; take skills learned back to your own garden. $40 members and Cornell students; $50 non-members. Registration required. cP

j july 17: open gate garden and Art tour, 9 am – 12 pm. Tour five historic village gardens, original art on display and for sale in each garden. Walk or ride free shuttle. Maps available day of. Start: Municipal parking lot, George Street, Dryden. Hosted by Dryden Beautification Brigade. $5. [email protected].

july 20: organic gardening for Beginners, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Class will cover everything from soil preparation to coping with weeds and pests. $5. Registration required. Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca. 607/272-2292.

j july 31: open days garden tour, 10 am – 4 pm. Presented by the Garden Conservancy. Tour three gardens at your own pace: 3991 Rte. 228, Alpine; 346 Warren Rd., Ithaca; 1345 Mecklenburg Rd., Ithaca. gardenconservancy.org.

August 2 – 6: Painting the Plantations landscapes, 2 – 5 pm. This class provides support and enlightenment as students learn to express their personal relationship with nature through painting. Classes will be held outdoors as often as possible. Bring basic watercolor kit. $150 members and Cornell students; $170 non-members. Registration

required. cP

• August 12: A garden of stories, 7 – 8:30 pm. Members of Ithaca Area Storytellers will present inspiring and engaging tales of plants, gardens, and the natural world. Stories are appropriate for youth ages 10+ and adults. Bring chair or blanket. Rain or shine; program will move indoors if rain. $5 per adult; children (under 18) free. Registration required.

• August 15 – september 19: garden chefs, six Sundays, 1 – 2:30 pm. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tompkins County in partnership with CERIS, Cornell Educational Resource for International Studies. Gardening, cooking, and culture combine, each week will highlight a different culture. Ages 7 – 12. $4 per session. Registration required. 607/272-2292. Ithaca Children’s Garden, Rt. 89 at Cass Park, Ithaca.

August 17: Plants for dry sites, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Class will cover many plants that love heat and sun, water-saving strategies such as mulch, and plants that can withstand dry shade with a little help. $5. Registration required. Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca. 607/272-2292.

september 10 – 19: Perennial sale. Week-long event. Bakers’ Acres, 1104 Auburn Rd.,Groton. 607/533-4653; bakersacres.net.

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REgulAR cluB MEEtingsAfrican violet society of Rochester meets the first

Wednesday of each month at 7 pm, St. John’s Home, 150 Highland Avenue, Rochester. Everyone

welcome. Bob or Linda Springer, 585/413-0606; [email protected].

Bonsai society of upstate new York meets the 4th Tuesday of the month at the Brighton Town Park Lodge, Buckland Park, 1341 Westfall Road, Rochester. 585/426-6548; bonsaisocietyofupstateny.org.

Fairport garden club meets the 3rd Thursday evening of each month (except August and January). Accepting new members. [email protected]; fairportgardenclub.org.

garden club of Brockport meets the second Wednesday of every month at Fire Station #3, 191 West Avenue, Brockport. 585/636-4312.

genesee Region orchid society (gRos) meets every month from September through May at the Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, Rochester, on the first Monday following the first Sunday of each month (dates sometimes vary due to holidays, etc.). The GROS is an Affiliate of The American Orchid Society (AOS) and of The Orchid Digest Corporation. geneseeorchid.org.

genesee valley chapter of the north American Rock garden society (gvc nARgs) meets the second Wednesday of each month, April - November, at the Rochester Civic Garden Center, 5 Castle Park, Rochester. 585/924-1739; [email protected]; gvnargs.blogspot.com.

genesee valley Hosta society meets the second Thursday of January, March, May, September & November at Monroe County’s Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester. 585/538-2280; [email protected].

genesee valley Pond & koi club meets the first Friday of the month at 7 pm, Rochester Civic Garden Center, 5 Castle Park, Rochester. [email protected].

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gesneriad-dicts of Western new York, a chapter of the Gesneriad Society, meets the first Wednesday of each month, September – May, at 6:30 pm, St. John’s Home, 150 Highland Avenue, Rochester. Bob or Linda Springer, 585/413-0606; [email protected].

greater Rochester iris society usually meets the last Sunday of the month at 2 pm. Monroe County Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester.

greater Rochester Perennial society (gRPs) meets the first Thursday of each month at 7 pm, Monroe County Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, except in summer when it tours members’ gardens. [email protected]. rochesterperennial.com.

greater Rochester Rose society holds monthly meetings, June rose show, garden adventures. 133 Torrey Pine Drive, Rochester. 585/621-8780; [email protected].

Henrietta garden club meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (except July and August) at 6:45 pm at Henrietta Town Hall (lower level, door facing the library). Open to all interested in gardens, flowers, and sharing information about plants. [email protected].

Holley garden club meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 pm, Holley Presbyterian Church. 585/638-6973.

ikebana international Rochester chapter 53 meets the 3rd Thursday of each month (except December and February) at 10 am, First Baptist Church, Hubbell Hall, 175 Allens Creek Road, Rochester. 585/872-0678; 585/586-0794.

Rochester dahlia society meets the second Saturday of most months at 1 pm, Trinity Reformed Church, 909 Landing Road North, Rochester, except in the summer, when it tours members’ gardens. Visitors welcome. 585/249-0624; 585/865-2291; [email protected]

Rochester Water garden society meets the third Monday of the month, 7:30 pm, at members’ homes. 585/672-5857; [email protected]; sunkissedaquatics.com.

valentown garden club meets the third Tuesday of each month, time alternates between noon or 7 pm. Victor. Kathleen Houser, president: 585/301-6107.




ongoing through july 31: Enchanted gardens national daylily display garden, 9 – 11 am Saturdays, 6 – 8 pm Mondays. Free. Call to schedule group tours or visit at a different time. 1085 State Road, Webster. 585/265-9635.

ongoing: visit Ellwanger garden, Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:30. Stroll the grounds while volunteers are working. Weather permitting. Ellwanger Garden, 625 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester. Landmark Society of Western NY. 585/546-7029. landmarksociety.org.

july 3: Mailbox and driveway Planting, 10 am. Learn about drought- and salt-tolerant plant combos to enhance your property’s entrance and curb appeal. Use shrubs for permanent color and perennials for

transplanting in the fall or storing over the winter, in combination with annuals and vines. Free. Registration required. WAY

july 6: Butterflies and the Plants they need, 9 am. Letchworth State Park, east side. Meet: Park and Ride lot, Rts. 15 & 251, off I-390, exit 11. 585/383-8168. RBc

july 8: natives for the Perennial garden, 6:30 – 8 pm. Learn more about using native plants in the garden

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iBA: international Bonsai Arboretum, 1070 Martin Road, West Henrietta, NY. 585/334-2595; internationalbonsai.com.

RBc: Rochester Butterfly club. All field trips are free and open to the public. Most field trips last about 2 hours; some continue into the afternoon, especially those that are further away from Rochester. Bring a cold drink and lunch. Long pants and appropriate footgear are strongly recommended, as there is often poison ivy. rochesterbutterflyclub.org.

Rcgc: Rochester civic garden center, 5 Castle Park, Rochester, NY 14620. 585/473-5130; rcgc.org.

sg: sonnenberg gardens & Mansion state Historic Park, 151 Charlotte Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424. 585/394-4922; sonnenberg.org.

WAY: Wayside garden center, 124 Pittsford-Palmyra Road (Route 31), Macedon, NY 14502. 585/223-1222; waysidegardencenter.com.

for their special charm, authenticity, attracting and fostering wildlife. Free with new or renewed membership. Registration required. Brostol’s Garden Center, Rte. 96, Victor. Rcgc

july 9 – August 13: Moonlight stroll Music series, Fridays, 8 – 10 pm; gates open 7:30 pm. Enjoy live music and the gardens lit in lights. Visitors are invited to bring picnic blankets and lawn chairs. Wine by the glass and light refreshments for sale. $7 members; $9 non-members. sg

july 10: getting off the ground, 10 am. Learn about gardening in containers, on trellises, and in contained straw-bale gardens and which vegetables grow best by which method. Supply list included. Instructor: Mary Moss- Sprague. Free. Registration required. WAY

j july 10: garden tour: gardens of Webster, 10 am – 4 pm. Visit 11 gardens displaying distinctive styles and inspired designs. Map provided. Advance: $15 members; $20 non-members. Day of: $20 all. Also available at Wegman’s, $20. Day of: 1200 Severn Ridge, 15 Kathrene Court, 1120 Harris Road, Webster. Rcgc

j july 10: garden tour, 10 am – 5 pm. Self-guided tour of seven Orleans county gardens, each with artists in plein air (weather permitting). Hospitality house at Cobblestone Museum, free museum tour. Artist work on display, Leonard Oakes Winery; artist reception, 5 pm; wine tasting. Proceeds benefit Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners program. $15. 585/589-1640.

july 11: daylily garden open House, 1 – 5 pm. Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display Garden), 1 Hillside Avenue, Rochester. 585/461-3317.

july 13: Butterflies and the Plants they need, 9 am. Hi Tor area, near Naples. Meet: Park and Ride parking lot, Bushnell’s Basin Exit of Route I-490. 585/383-8168. RBc


july 14: Painting the garden in soft Pastel, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Introductory class led by Marcia Eames-Sheavly. Participants will learn to use soft pastels, working loosely and without a lot of detail as they focus on the garden capturing its main features of foreground, background and sky. Outdoor class. $12. Registration required. Phelps Community Center, 8 Banta Street, Phelps. 315/548-8484; phelpsny.com/phelps-fun/community-center.

july 16 – 25: Hydrangea celebration. Hundreds of hydrangeas, seminars, raffles. WAY

july 17: summer Wildflowers, 10 am. Walk led by Carl Herrgesell and Frank Crombe. Free. Thousand Acre Swamp Sanctuary, 158l Jackson Road, Penfield. 585/425-9561.

july 17 – 18: Pond-o-Palooza. Self-guided pond tour. Hosted by Sunkissed Aquatics. 585/672-5857. sunkissedaquatics.com. pondopalooza.com.

july 20: Butterflies and the Plants they need, 10 am. Ganondagan State Historic Site. Meet: parking lot, corner Rte. 444 and Boughton Hill Rd. 585/425-2380. RBc


july 20: Andrew’s Favorites at Holmes Hollow nursery, 6:30 – 8 pm. Join Andrew Fowler for a tour highlighting his favorite plants and their landscape uses. Enjoy many unusual plants, trees and shrubs in a rural setting. $18 members; $25 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

july 21: Perennial surprises & Hidden treasures at Michael Hannen’s nursery, 6 – 7:30 pm. See

something different in Michael’s gardens in the Upper Monroe Avenue neighborhood. He’s planted many new varieties for a total of 700-800 different plants, all of them hard to find and unusual. Enjoy a guided tour highlighting the current standouts. $10 members; $15 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

july 21: soiree – stroll Among the daylilies at a national display garden, 6:30 – 8 pm. Enjoy a relaxed evening with Charles Zettek in his Cobb’s Hill garden, a National Daylily Display Garden, where he grows hundreds of daylily hybrids from around the world as well as several hundred of his own creations. $11. Registration required. Rcgc

july 22: Pesticide/Pollinator symposium, 10 – 11:30 am, 1 – 4 pm. This symposium introduces attendees to some of the recent findings related to honey bee and pollinator losses. The increasing loss of honey bee colonies suffered by commercial beekeepers that provide pollination services to commercial growers indicates that many food supplies are imperiled. Featuring presenters from Penn. State University and the USDA-ARS Honey Bee Pollination Lab, Tucson, Arizona. Free. Registration required: 716/316-5839; [email protected]. Alfred State SUNY College of Technology, 10 Upper College Drive, Alfred.

july 22: oh no, now What – creative Perennial garden Maintenance, 6 – 8:30 pm. RCGC Executive Director Christine Froehlich will share professional methods to keep the garden looking fresh: proper staking; deadheading; deadleafing; cutting back to prevent straggliness, promote new growth and rebloom; creative pruning of perennials that have gotten too dense; weeding quickly; how to identify problems like low fertility, water, and pest problems; and what to do about the fear of rearrangement. Hands-on class in a garden setting. $28 members; $35 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc


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july 23: Moonlight stroll Music series, 8 – 10 pm; gates open 7:30 pm. See description under July 9. sg

j july 24: Webster village garden tour. Presented by Webster Village Historical Preservation Commission. villageofwebster.com.

july 24: Rose Workshop, 10 am – 12 pm. Greater Rochester Rose Society members provide expert advice on roses and hands-on demonstrations. Meet by the fountain, Maplewood Rose Garden, corner Lake & Driving Park Avenues, Rochester. Free. Rain or shine. Roc

july 25: Webster Arboretum daylily sale, 8 am – 2 pm. Over 40 varieties to choose from. Advice on selection and daylily care available. Nationally recognized daylily display garden, over 250 varieties of daylilies including 30 new varieties. Rain or shine. Webster Arboretum, 1700 Schlegel Rd., Webster. websterarboretum.org.

july 25: gardening sale, 10 am – 2 pm. Irises, hostas, perennials, gently used garden objects. Master Gardeners of Monroe County, Greater Rochester Iris Society, Greater Rochester Perennial Society, Genesee Valley Hosta Society, Rock Garden Society. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue.


july 27: ikebana Workshop, 6:30 pm. Presented by Saskia Eller, Master 3rd Degree Ichiyo School of Ikebana and Ikebana International, Rochester Chapter 53. Free. Registration required. Greece

Public Library, 585/723-2472; [email protected].

• july 28: ikebana Workshop for children, 6:30 pm. Presented by Ikebana International, Rochester Chapter 53. Free. Registration required. Fairport Public Library, 585/223-9091; [email protected].

july 29: More than two Hundred and Fifty Hydrangeas at tim’s in East Bloomfield, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Through much experimentation Tim Boebel has worked out how to get consistent bloom from hydrangeas in our less-than-ideal environment, and is looking at hundreds of cultivars to determine which are the best for our area. He will discuss the merits of different cultivars, a bit about growing hydrangea in patio containers, and answer questions. $22 members; $27 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

july 30: Moonlight stroll Music series, 8 – 10 pm; gates open 7:30 pm. See description under July 9. sg

july 31: More than two Hundred and Fifty Hydrangeas at tim’s in East Bloomfield, 10 am – 12 pm. See description under July 29. $22 members; $27 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

• j july 31: From the Earth, 11 am – 6 pm. Visit four neighboring properties in the rolling hills outside of Alfred. Enjoy flower and vegetable gardens, tour an organic dairy farm, creations from wood and clay, craft demonstrations, guided bird walk, garden talks, children’s activities, and more. Maps available at all locations: 1664 Waterwells Road, 1530 Randolph Road, 1444 Randolph Road, 4981 McAndrews Road. Rain or shine.607/587-9877. lindahuey.com/shows.html.

August 3: Preserving your Harvest of Herbs, Flowers & vegetables, 6:30 – 8 pm. Tracy Gaus, owner of

Herbly Wonderful in Batavia, will discuss numerous ideas and methods for preserving vegetables, flowers and herbs. Participants will go home with lots of projects for using their harvest throughout the winter months. $22 members; $28 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 4: soirée - A collector’s dream garden, 6:30 – 8 pm. Enclosed Asian-style knoll garden features dwarf conifers, Japanese maples, bamboo, Japanese iris, and blueberry bushes. A stream flows into an 8,500-gallon gunite-lined pond containing over 40 colorful koi. Two large, tiered reflecting pools filled with water lilies. Bonsai collection. Inside the barn, two large G Scale train layouts. $11. Registration required. Rcgc

August 6: Moonlight stroll Music series, 8 – 10 pm; gates open 7:30 pm. See description under July 9. sg

August 7: Herb Workshop, 8:45 am – 12 pm. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County Master Gardeners. Basic herb garden design, kitchen herbs demo, take home project. $10. Registration required by July 30. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Rte. 88 North, Newark. 315/331-8415. counties.cce.cornell.edu/wayne.

August 7: daylily sale, 9 am – 2 pm. Presented by the Finger Lakes Daylily Society. Named cultivars in a range of colors and sizes freshly dug from members’ gardens or the club’s display garden. All plants $6 each; 4 for $20. Club members will be on hand to answer questions. Bristol’s Garden Center, 7454 Victor-Pittsford Road, Victor. 585/787-8857.

August 7: garden design for constant color and Fragrance, 10 am. Use annuals, perennials, shrubs, vines and trees to achieve peak color and fragrance interest throughout the year. Instructor: Trish Gannon. Free. Registration required. WAY

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August 7: Brighten up Your Fall with continuous containers, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm. Join RCGC Director Christine Froehlich in her garden in Sodus Point for a demonstration of how to combine plants with shrubs and perennials for dynamic foliage to create color combinations that will brighten up the fall landscape. $22 members; $32 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 8: daylily garden open House, 1 – 5 pm. Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display Garden), 1 Hillside Avenue, Rochester. 585/461-3317.

August 10: What’s new at the Zoo – a green Roof and Rain garden, 6:30 – 8 pm. Join Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care IPM manager Terry Schmitz for a tour of two ecological projects that Broccolo has installed at Seneca Park Zoo. Free with new or renewed membership. Registration required. Rcgc

August 11: Butterflies and the Plants they need, 9 am. Rattlesnake Hill Wildlife Management Area. Meet: Park and Ride lot, Rts. 15 & 251 off I-390, exit 11. 585/385-4725. RBc

August 12: Remarkable Plants, Extraordinary landscape, 6:30 – 8 pm. Visit Jerry Kral’s urban landscape where he uses small and medium-sized evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, many rare and unusual, in combination with perennials and annuals, linked by pathways and stone walls. New: ¼-acre sunny garden, three new rock gardens, a living roof. $22 members; $32 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 13: Moonlight stroll Music series, 8 – 10 pm; gates open 7:30 pm. See description under July 9. sg

j August 14: Pond tour & open House, 9 am – 5 pm Tour; 5 pm Open House. Specials, goldfish races, live music, cookout, wine tasting. Proceeds benefit National Center for Missing and Exploited

Children/NY Branch. Sunrise Aquatics, 127 Pannell Road, Fairport. 585/223-2293; sunriseaquatics.com.

August 14: do-it-Yourself garden design clinic, 10 am. Create your own garden design with instruction then determine how much and what to do yourself. Participants will complete at least one ready-to-plant design. Free. Registration required. WAY

August 14 – 15: stone Wall Building seminar. In-depth opportunity with local stone artisan Scott George. Small class size; off-site. Sara’s Garden Center. 585/637-4745. [email protected].

August 17: cut-Flower Workshop at an Historic Flower Farm, 6 – 8 pm. Join Nellie Gardner of Flower Fields specialty cut flowers to learn all about using cut flowers, which varieties work best for cutting as well as landscape use, how to cut and condition the flowers, how to prep the water, care of bouquets, etc. Participants will select and cut their own bouquet to take home. $28 members; $35 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 21: How to use david Austin Roses in Your landscape design, 10 am. Choose from short, tall, climber, shade tolerant and thornless among this family of shrub roses with a wide range of fragrance and color. Free. Registration required. WAY

August 21 – 22: Arts at the gardens, 10 am – 5 pm. Juried fine art show and sale featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, glass, woodwork, photography, and other fine art created by 100 talented artists. Rain or shine. $6. sg

August 25: Perennial surprises & Hidden treasures at Michael Hannen’s nursery, 6 – 7:30 pm. See description under July 21. $10 members; $15 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 26: Walking tour – seed of native trees and shrubs, 6 – 8 pm. Jim Engel, owner of White Oak Nursery, a native plant nursery in Canandaigua, will introduce the many species of native woody plants found in Highland Park and share his knowledge of methods for establishing them using seed, whether in wild land restoration or the home landscape. $22 members; $32 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

August 28: Butterflies & Flowers of summer, 10 am – 12 pm. Join Carol and David Southby of the Rochester Butterfly Club at this known hotspot for butterflies. Bring binoculars and water; wear long pants and appropriate footwear to guard against poison ivy. Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve, Macedon. Meet at entrance on Wilkinson Road. 585/383-8168. Genesee Land Trust. 585/256-2130. geneseelandtrust.org.

september 10 – 12: north American Bonsai symposium, 8 am – 5 pm. Lecture, demonstrations, workshops, exhibit, vendors, auction. Holiday Inn Airport, 911 Brooks Avenue, Rochester. iBA

september 11: gathering of gardeners, 8 am – 4 pm. Speakers, vendors, book signing, raffle. Featuring Bill Hendricks of Klyn Nurseries and C.L. Fornari, garden writer and speaker. Eisenhart Auditorium, Rochester Museum & Science Center. $48; $11 optional lunch. Presented by Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension, Monroe County. 585/461-1000 x225. gatheringofgardeners.com.

september 11: Plant sale, 9 am. Presented by Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. Orleans County Fair Grounds. 585/798-4265.

september 12: Autumn open House & sale, 1 – 4 pm. iBA


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september 14 – 30: Basic Professional Floral design certificate, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 – 9 pm. This program has been developed to prepare students for employment in the floral industry; no prior experience required. Instructor Alana Miller is a professional floral designer and teacher with over 30 years experience in the industry. This 15-20 hour, three-week comprehensive program will guide students through the basic principles and techniques of floral design. Each intensive class will include lecture and hands-on workshop. Styles discussed will include round, triangular, vase, symmetrical, elongated, corsages, and more. Students will create one or two arrangements to take home in each class. Top-quality flowers and materials included. Bring scissors, wire cutters and floral knife. $395 members; $495 non-members. Registration required. Rcgc

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African violet society of syracuse meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 pm, September – June. Membership open to all interested in the culture, care and propagation of African violets. Visitors welcome. Andrews United Methodist Church, 106

Church Street, North Syracuse. 315/492-2562; [email protected]; avsofsyracuse.org.

central new York orchid society meets the first Sunday of the month, September – May, St. Augustine’s Church, 7333 O’Brien Rd., Baldwinsville. Dates may vary due to holidays. 315/633-2437; cnyos.org.

gardeners in thyme (a women’s herb club) meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 pm, Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville. 315/635-6481; [email protected].

Habitat gardening club of cnY (HgcnY) meets the last Sunday of most months at 2 pm. LeMoyne College, Falcone Library, special activities room, Syracuse. 315/487-5742; hgcny.org.

koi and Water garden society of central new York usually meets the third Monday of each month at 7 pm. See web site for meeting locations. 315/458-3199; cnykoi.com.

Men’s (and Women’s) garden club of syracuse meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm. Reformed Church of Syracuse, 1228 Teall Ave., Syracuse. Enter from Melrose Ave. 315/464-0051.

syracuse Rose society meets the second Thursday of every month (except December and February) at 7:30 pm. Public welcome. Reformed Church of Syracuse, 1228 Teall Avenue, Syracuse. Enter from Melrose Ave. Club members maintain the E. M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden, Thornden Park, Syracuse. syracuserosesociety.org.




ongoing: volunteer, Weed and Feed, Wednesdays, 10 am. Volunteers gather to spruce up the gardens, grounds and trails. On the third Wednesday of the month volunteers are invited to a lunch of locally harvested foods. BWnc

ongoing: Adirondack Park invasive Plant Program – volunteer opportunities. Assist with inventory and control of terrestrial invasive plant sites throughout the Park.

Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy; 518/576-2082 x120. adkinvasives.com/volunteeropportunities.html

july 6 – August 31: the Magic of color and light. Photographs of nature by Tom Dwyer. Free. Weeks Art Gallery. BWnc

july 10: Photography Presentation and Reception, 1 – 4 pm. In conjunction with the exhibit, “The Magic of Color and Light,” nature photographer Tom Dwyer will give a presentation on his work, 1 – 2 pm. Artist reception, 2 – 4 pm. Free. Weeks Art Gallery. BWnc

july 11 – 17: Adirondack invasive species Awareness Week. Learn about the issues surrounding invasive species (both plant and animal, aquatic and terrestrial) and about the importance of native biodiversity in the Adirondacks by attending workshops, field trips, lectures and control parties. adkinvasives.com/InvasiveSpeciesAwarenessWeek.html

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• july 12: summer camp. Week-long sessions. Ages 4 – 14. Registration required. BWnc

july 22 – 25: daylily open House & sale. Enchantment Acres Flower Farm, 887 County Route 3, Hannibal. 315/598-3346. [email protected].

july 29 – August 1: Hosta open House & sale. Enchantment Acres Flower Farm, 887 County Route 3, Hannibal. 315/598-3346. [email protected].

August 10 – 11: Adirondack Forum on invasive species. Theme centers on the need to consider all types of invasive species - plants and animals, aquatic and terrestrial - and on ways in which communities can be prepared to address them. Hosted by the Adirondack Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management at Paul Smith’s College. adkinvasives.com/Forum.html.

August 14: Evening with trains. Enjoy trains in the garden plus a wine tasting. Adults only. Enchantment Acres Flower Farm, 887 County Route 3, Hannibal. 315/598-3346. [email protected].

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• july 5 – 9: Hands-on Horticulture: Making sense of lavender. Discover the history and uses of lavender. Harvest your own sprigs and make a scented sachet to take home. Included with Fort admission. king

• july 6: king’s garden live ladybug Release, 1:30 – 2:30 pm. Learn to identify ladybug species and appreciate the work of beneficial insects in the garden. Stories, ladybug bingo, bug hunt, ladybug release. One hour. Included with Fort admission. king

july 10: Endangered species Walk: karner Blue Butterflies, 11 am – 12 pm. Staff members will lead this hike in the Pine Bush Preserve to see the endangered Karner blue butterfly, learn about it’s natural habitat and efforts to rescue the species. Wear sturdy walking shoes, long pants and bring drinking water. $2 per person; $5 per family. Registration required. PinE

• july 11: crafty corner for kids, 10:30 am – 12 pm. Projects use natural materials. $2 individual; $5 family; children under 5 years free. Registration required. PinE

july 11: discover the Pine Bush, 1 – 2 pm. Experts will guide this one mile hike over rolling sand dunes. Wear sturdy walking shoes, long pants and bring drinking

water. $2 per person; $5 per family. Registration required. PinE

• july 12 – 16: Hands-on Horticulture: Making sense of lavender. See description under July 5 – 9. Included with Fort admission. king

july 19 – 23: Hands-on Horticulture: Making sense of lavender. See description under July 5 – 9. Included with Fort admission. king

• july 20: investigating Herbs garden tour, 1:30 – 2 pm. Tour the gardens with herbalist Nancy Scarzello as she explains how colonists used plants to make teas, salves, poultices and more for healing and disease prevention. king

july 22: Water chestnut Pull. With The Nature Conservancy. Help the effort to eradicate this invasive species from Lake Champlain. king

july 25: garden Party Fundraiser. Call for invitation and information. king

• july 26 – 30: Hands-on Horticulture: grateful for deadheading, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. Flowering plants often benefit from deadheading, the removal of faded flowers. Learn tips and techniques for cutting back plants. Kids can create their very own pet rock. king


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• August 2 – 6: Hands-on Horticulture: grateful for deadheading, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. See description under July 26 – 30. king

August 9 – 13: Hands-on Horticulture: iris division days, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. Learn how to divide bearded iris and take home a root for your garden. Additional roots may be purchased. king

• August 10: investigating Herbs Family Program, 1:30 – 2 pm. Uncover the uses of medicinal and culinary herbs growing in the Discovery Gardens. Included with Fort admission. king

August 16 – 20: Hands-on Horticulture: iris division days, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. See description under August 9 – 13. king

• August 17: investigating Herbs Family Program, 1:30 – 2 pm. See description under August 10. king

August 23 – 27: Hands-on Horticulture: iris division days, 12:30 – 3:30 pm. See description under August 9 – 13. king

• August 24: investigating Herbs garden tour, 1:30 – 2 pm. See description under July 20. king

september 7: Herbs & Wild Medicinal Plants of Fort ticonderoga, 1:30 – 3 pm. Join herbalist Nancy Wotton Scarzello for this tour of the herb garden, grounds and field edges. Learn about identification, the traditional and folkloric uses of herbs and wild plants, and ways they are still used today. $15. Registration required. Rain date September 8. king

september 13: Bus tour to Montreal Botanic garden. Day trip. Explore the gardens, conservatories and insectarium on your own. Carpool from Ticonderoga; bus departs from Burlington. Registration required before August 30. king

september 14: introduction to Herbal Preparations, 2 – 4:30 pm. Using fresh herbs harvested from the Fort’s gardens, learn the proper ways of making teas, herbal oils for massage, salve and lip balm. Includes hands-on demonstration, handouts and products to take home. $25. Registration required. king

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Broadway Market’s rooftop gardenThe beginnings of an urban farm

by Nicole Kelly

very soon, pierogi and kielbasa may have to share the limelight at buffalo’s broadway Market (999 broadway). The market, in efforts to reinvent

itself, is growing a community, rooftop garden and implementing many new ideas to reach out to the western new york community.

The idea of the roof top community garden was dreamed up this past winter by tom kerr, its director, and his americorps volunteer amanda beale. it is hoped the garden will serve as a place for the immediate community and greater buffalo to come together around a green space. it is one way in which kerr believes that the market can further meet the immediate food needs of its economically challenged neighborhood while being a destination for western new yorkers outside the traditional holiday times.

“The market is sort of at a crossroads. in order to

revitalize it, we needed to do something differently. it absolutely needs to be here for the neighborhood. i have a plan that revolves around maintaining the integrity Monday thru friday but building it on saturdays as a destination,” said kerr, further explaining that the immediate area around the market has the highest degree of individuals who take public transportation. faced with the high prices and limits of area delicatessens, residents rely on the market for their groceries and fresh produce. during the holidays, the market draws in thousands of people who do not normally come at other times during the year. The hope is that the rooftop garden, along with other new endeavors such as encouraging business incubators, providing cooking and healthy living classes, featuring regular entertainment and art, and starting a sunday farmer’s market will bring in the weekend crowd,

ABovE: A view of the rooftop garden


as well. plans for the garden are ambitious. along with the

individual raised bed plots, there are plans for growing small trees and green fence walls featuring climbing plants such as beans. There are hopes of doing garden soirées on the rooftop with live music. kerr explained that they have reached out to many in the community including the erie county cooperative extension and the city of buffalo, who currently owns and operates the market. along with giving gardening advice, the cooperative extension has agreed to come in and do some cooking and canning classes at the end of the growing season.

anyone who wants to participate in this venture is welcome. The four by four raised beds will be lined with plastic and sit on pallets. The beds and soil are free. participants will be able to garden during set hours, and staff at the market will even water the plants on the rooftop. anything that can be grown on a rooftop can be planted as long as participants agree to abide by the rules set up for the program. items grown must be legal and grown with no pesticides. There are plans to use the green, compostable waste from some of the current vendors, on the gardens as fertilizer.

kerr stated that they have about 60 individuals already committed to the project, about half from the immediate neighborhood and the other half from other parts of the city. he noted that people are very excited

about the venture at the market. as the raised beds were being built, many were starting their seedlings at home and were eager for their start day.

one woman from the neighborhood who has a physical disability will garden from her wheelchair. a Muslim who was a farmer in his native country has committed to 10 raised beds and hopes to sell his produce at the market. he will not be alone. anyone who raises food in the garden will have a chance to sell it at the new farmer’s market on sundays.

“The city has been absolutely wonderful in their support of it and helping us get through some of this stuff. when you see the roof and the possibilities up there it really isn’t bounded by anything other than someone’s imagination.” kerr said.

as one looks out from the burgeoning rooftop garden, surrounded by the old central terminal, st. stanislaus cathedral and corpus christi, one does get a sense of possibility. old meets new and history meets the present. in trying to build up a neighborhood and affirm the city, the market is trying to appeal to those who may lack or have limited gardening space, but want and appreciate local and fresh produce. it is giving the neighborhood and the greater city green space to claim as their own, as interest in fresh, local food and sustainable gardening grown and, it is hoped, grows some more.

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lEFt: A street-side look at Broadway Market

RigHt: Construction of the raised beds on the roof

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Natural selections

Here a Bradford, there a BradfordThink before planting this landscape staple

by Janet Allen

our daughter and her husband bought a house in one of those sprawling subdivisions sprouting up all over north carolina. when we went to

visit them in their new home, the first thing i noticed was that the entire subdivision was planted with—literally—thousands of callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) trees.

i was already primed to notice them, since on our trip from new york to north carolina we had spotted these trees planted along the highways and at rest areas. but i really didn’t have to travel far to see them. they’re widely planted in shopping malls and in home landscapes all over central new york, too. throughout the eastern u. s., this native of china is ubiquitous!

the callery pear is an ornamental tree that can quickly grow up to 40 feet or more. its neat, symmetrical appearance lends itself to planting in formal settings. it’s very showy in the spring with a blizzard of small white flowers—but don’t get within sniffing distance since most people find its scent unpleasant. in summer, it has smooth dark green leaves and lots of small round fruit. garden centers may advertise these as being appealing to birds, but the invasive european starlings are the birds it particularly attracts. it can have brilliantly colored red-orange-purple foliage in the late fall, though more reliably colored in the south than in the north. and watch out if there’s an early snowfall or other severe weather during the year. though this tree suffers from few pests or diseases, most varieties of callery pear have very weak crotches and are inclined to split. this happened to ours after a relatively light

halloween snowstorm when we awoke to find half the tree lying on the ground. (yes, we too once had a ‘bradford’ callery pear, which had been highly recommended by a local garden center.)

‘bradford’ originally produced sterile fruits, so the primary problem was that the enormous numbers of these trees planted in urban and suburban areas displaced the native trees so important for wildlife. but then, in an effort to fix the problem of weak branching structure, newer varieties were introduced. these cross-pollinated with the bradford pear and the once-sterile variety began to produce viable seeds. now, pear-eating birds have spread the seeds, and callery pears are invading meadows, roadsides, woodland edges, and other in 25 states.

besides crowding out native trees such as redbud or flowering dogwood, the callery pear invasion is bad news for native ferns and wildflowers. although they can grow under dappled shade of native trees, they struggle under the dense shade of the callery. in addition, the callery hybrids produced in the wild often create very thorny thickets, unlike their cultivated relatives.

we were lucky. that halloween snowstorm made our job easy by removing most of our relatively small, young tree. but if you have a large callery pear you want to eliminate, cut it down with a chainsaw and treat the outer two inches of the cut stump with an herbicide, such as glyphosate. you can dig up or pull out smaller trees. watch out, though, for thorny saplings springing up from any roots remaining in the ground.

beyond our own yards, the callery pear’s popularity is a challenge. despite its many drawbacks, many homeowners and commercial landscapers still plant it because it’s cheap, it provides three-season interest, and it has a neat appearance. sometimes that’s all people want—until they understand the greater importance to biodiversity of planting native plants.

fortunately, there’s some evidence that callery’s popularity is on the wane. the united states national arboretum removed them from their parking lot, concerned that the trees would end up falling on the cars parked there. planners in both fairfax and Montgomery counties in virginia no longer allow developers to plant them in subdivisions. and even the “birthplace” of the bradford pear—st. george’s county, Maryland, where government scientists developed the tree in the 1960s—has joined the anti-bradford movement. long the official county tree, the county acknowledged that it’s actually a “weed tree,” and has removed its “official county tree” designation.

perhaps what will ultimately sway people is understanding that even if the callery pear were not as invasive as it is, it’s still a poor substitute for what they could plant otherwise.

ABovE: A row of Bradford pear trees near the author’s home

Some of the many beautiful native alternatives to the callery pear:

Downy serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)

Canada serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis)

Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)

Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

Downy hawthorn (Crataegus mollis)

Washington hawthorn (Crataegus phaenopyrum)

Carolina silverbell (Halesia tetraptera)

American plum (Prunus americana)

Blackhaw (Viburnum prunifolium)

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