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Orchid Repotting with the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society
Join us for an Orchid Repotting Event in partnership with the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society!
Bring your orchid with you! Our experts will help repot your plant and give you lots of great advice on how to care for your orchid. There will be growing medium and varied sized pots for sale. Prices will vary but will start around $20 (this includes a new pot, growing medium and orchid repotting by an expert). All proceeds benefit the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society.
When to repot an orchid:
It’s new to your family – Repot right after it blooms!
In the spring – Check the bark mix in the spring and repot it if you notice any bark decomposition.
Its crowded – Orchids do prefer a small pot and they will start to weave their roots through the growing medium as they grow and will eventually run out of room. The roots will start to push the plant up above the rim of the pot or reach out into the air, looking for room to breathing space. This is a sure sign to provide new accommodations for your plant.
The Orchid Repotting Event will take place in the Community Room of the Administration Building on the Botanical Gardens’ campus. There is no admission fee, just what you spend on repotting, pots and growing medium. If you just want to stop by to get some advice, we are happy to talk orchids for days!
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Lewiston GardenFest
Lewiston GardenFest presented by Lewiston Garden Club is set for Saturday, June 15 and Sunday, June 16 from 10 am to 5 pm both days along Center Street. The festival includes vendors selling flowers, plants, and garden essentials along with a garden walk, speakers, and container garden contest. This year’s theme is “Spring Into Summer!”. The event is free to attend.
Center Street will feature eighty booths from area nurseries, landscapers, garden vendors, and outdoor suppliers, along with demonstrations by garden professionals. Soil samples will be analyzed, and questions answered by Master Gardeners and area floral society experts. Private and public gardens will be open for viewing during the event.
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Buffalo Style Garden Art Sale
No garden is complete without art. Need something unique and/or handmade to complete your garden? Visit more than 50 vendors of nature-themed items or works that can be displayed in a garden setting & in many mediums: sculpture, metalwork, paintings, woodwork, architectural remnants, found art, ceramics, planters & anything that looks good in a garden! Enjoy the food trucks and an awesome basket raffle! Free & no tickets or reservations required!
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Town of Amherst Garden Walk
The Town of Amherst Garden Walk is a free event of resident gardens open for public viewing. Garden descriptions and locations available a week before the event at local Amherst garden centers and Facebook/AmherstGardenWalk. Self guided – free event.
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North Tonawanda Garden Walk
The North Tonawanda Garden Walk is open to anyone wishing to share their garden with visitors for the weekend with a focus on the downtown and Sweeney Estate Districts. Garden walks are a way of promoting neighborhoods, sustainability, gardening techniques, creativity, wellness, and communities. Self guided.
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Buzz Around Hamburg Garden Walk and Fair
Special features Visit Memorial Park to shop at our garden vendor fair. Pick up the map with descriptions of our gardens that vary from formal to whimsical, including sunny poolsides, shady waterfalls, rainbows of perennials, organic vegetables, colorful containers, and more. Don’t miss the Eighteen Mile Creek Overlook with its quaint gazebo and herb garden and the Trolley Stop, a village volunteer effort initiated by Imagine: Hamburg. Notice the lush plantings in the roundabouts, bumpouts and pots, provided by our volunteer committee known as the “Beauts.”
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Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk
Named for the first full-time salaried chancellor of the University at Buffalo, this 19th annual walk comprises more than 70 private and public spaces in the University Heights, Eggertsville, and Amherst neighborhoods surrounding the UB South Campus. See lush medians, beautiful backyards, bountiful plants, and unique historical streets. The community abounds with eclectic eateries, including the restored Parkside Candy.
2024 Marks the 23rd year of the Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk, designed to encourage neighborhood beautification and collaboration and to build strong communities.
Maps
UB Anderson Gallery, and UHAA & St. Andrew’s Sculpture Garden, 3107 Main Street, Buffalo 14215 (enter on Lisbon Side)
Donation
Tour is free and self-guided. Special features
Don’t miss: University Park Historic District, Minnesota Avenue’s four-block median, UB Anderson Gallery, Tyler Street Community Garden, plus UHAA-St. Andrew’s Sculpture Garden
Lancaster Garden Walk
Come see the landscapes of Lancaster as you visit volunteer gardens for the 20th straight year. Last year 37 gardeners participated in this event. Stroll through the Village of Lancaster Historic District, which boasts one of Erie County’s richest concentrations of residential and commercial buildings of significant architectural value.
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East Side Garden Walk
The East Side Garden Walk (ESGW) is an annual self-guided garden tour that brings visitors who share a love of gardening into the gardens of East Buffalo. Now in its fifth year, ESGW encourages visitors and neighbors alike to walk, drive, or bike East Buffalo, learning about the resilience of this community. Visitors meet its gracious gardeners, experience its historic neighborhoods and wide-ranging architecture. Our featured gardens are an eclectic mix of private homes, community gardens and urban farms with participating gardeners ranging from school children helping in outdoor classrooms gardens to senior citizens, and everyone between. The free, self-guided walk encourages community revitalization and the beautification of East Buffalo one neighbor at a time. Equally important are the conversations among gardeners and visitors that bridge notions of differences.
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Garden Walk Buffalo
America’s largest garden tour is back! Hundreds of creative and gracious gardeners are looking forward to seeing you again & or for the first time.
Where: Maps can be found at sponsor locations and online at GardenWalkBuffalo.com in early July and its headquarter site only during the days and hours of the Walk.
What: Garden Walk Buffalo is America’s largest garden tour, attracting garden lovers throughout Western New York, Southern Ontario and beyond. Held annually on the last weekend of July, Garden Walk has become one of the most anticipated garden events locally and even nationally. Tens of thousands of visitors flock to Buffalo to tour hundreds of creative residential gardens as well community and public gardens. Tour is free and self-guided.
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