2025 marks the twenty-first year of ‘Bloom’ classes offered by the Master Gardeners of Erie County. Classes will be of interest to both beginning and veteran gardeners.
Classes are offered on two dates and locations:
Aurora Senior Center,101 King Street, East Aurora 14052
As our climate changes, gardeners can look to increasing biodiversity, selecting the “right plant for the right place”, adapting watering routines, and other strategies to create a garden that can better adapt to our evolving environmental conditions.
It is not possible to make your garden completely critter-proof, but there are ways to minimize their impact on your garden. We’ll cover some strategies to deal with hungry critters who think your yard is a buffet and some plants they typically avoid.
Mansion at Knox Farm State Park, E Aurora
Propagating plants is fun, rewarding, and FREE. We’ll cover leaf, stem and softwood cuttings, layering, and division as methods of expanding your collection of indoor and outdoor plant varieties
Using the lens of integrated pest management, we will look at what is required to grow healthy boxwoods, the pests that threaten them and alternative shrubs you might consider for your landscape. We will also cover monitoring programs for Box Tree Moth (BTM) and the use of bio-controls. (Following the session, we will check nearby boxwoods to see if we can find BTM overwintering. They overwinter as caterpillars!)
Fee: Master Gardeners: $20/each date Public: $25/each date
Last updated January 31, 2025