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BUFFALO - ITHACA - ROCHESTER - SYRACUSE Home Garden Trends Real Estate for Wildlife Carol Watson Greenhouse Volume Twenty-four, Issue Three FREE May-June 2018 UPSTATE GARDENERS’ JOURNAL - 390 HILLSIDE DRIVE - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14610 Spring Follies!?!? We love the term follies! Google it!—hahaha—it is not necessarily a good thing by every definition, but it is such a fun word! It feels happy and carefree...it should mean everything wonderful about the season: sunshine and flowers, bumbles bees and lawn mowers...and visiting a nursery! This is the season when we really are all on the same page. No matter your location, political lean or gardening level, there is nothing you should want more than being at a nursery at the peak time of all things green and growing. Happy people + happy plants = life is good. However you decide to define the word follies, sometimes you just need to indulge in one—we guarantee that if plants are part of yours, you will not find yourself lacking in positive outcomes. Handpicked for You Please visit our “Handpicked for You” display at the nursery this season. When you need a reliable, tried and true staple for a space in your garden, you want to see that tag on your choice. These plants are what we call the anchors of the landscape. No guessing, just solid performance and perfect if you’re new to gardening. This branded selection of plants will instantly bestow you with garden confidence gained from years of experience—you’ll see! Stone Wall Follies 2018 Stone Wall heaven is more like it! Our 10th year is in the works and dates will be announced soon. This season of the follies is filling up fast, so if you want to share in our “wee bit of magic” this fall, contact us soon! We will send you the details on our next session. For details on the Stone Wall Follies, Garden Event Rentals or any other garden-related topic, call the nursery at 585-637-4745 or email us at [email protected]. 40+ Year Mission! It is our greatest desire to provide our customers with top quality, well-grown plant material at a fair and honest price. We will strive to provide an unmatched selection of old favorites and underused, hard-to-find items, along with the newest varieties on the market. We will eagerly share our horticultural knowledge gained from years of education and experience. Lastly, we offer all this in a spirit of fun and lightheartedness. SARA’S GARDEN Sara’s Garden Center | 389 East Ave. | Brockport 14420 | 585-637-4745 FRESH LOCAL FARM SOD CONTACT YOUR SOD & SEED SPECIALISTS: 6660 Goodrich Road Clarence Center, NY 14032 716-741-2880 800-562-2887 lakesidesod.com ordersodnow.com [email protected] WE MAKE IT EASY TO LOVE YOUR YARD. EASTMAN ENTERTAINS AT THE MOVIES ON DISPLAY MAY 8–20 A spectacular array of creatively styled table settings and floral arrangements inspired by popular motion pictures—displayed throughout the mansion of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman. FILM SERIES AT THE DRYDEN Cleopatra (1934) • Father of the Bride (1950) Carousel (1956) • South Pacific (1958) The Great Gatsby (2013) Organized by the Eastman Museum Council and the Eastman Museum Landscape Committee. 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY | eastman.org Weckesser Brick Co., Inc. Supplying Homeowners & Contractors for over 80 years Veneer Brick Cultured Stone 450 Trabold Road Rochester, NY 14624 Natural Stone 585-247-1100 Brick Pavers Hardscape Products PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Jane F. Milliman MANAGING EDITOR: Debbie Eckerson GRAPHIC DESIGN: Cathy Monrad TECHNICAL EDITOR: Brian Eshenaur PROOFREADER: Sarah Koopus Contents CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: PAT CURRAN | KATIE DETAR | MICHELLE SUTTON Ear to the Ground ......................................................7 VALERIE SHAW | CATHY MONRAD | LIZ MAGNANTI Almanac ...............................................................10-11 Carol Watson Greenhouse ................................12-14 Backyard Habitat ..................................................... 18 390 Hillside Drive, Rochester, NY 14610 585/733-8979 Calendar ..............................................................20-25 e-mail: [email protected] upstategardenersjournal.com Upstate Pairing ........................................................ 27 The Upstate Gardeners’ Journal is published six times a year. Home Garden Trends ........................................29-33 To subscribe, please send $20.00 to the above address. Magazines will be delivered via U.S. mail and or email (in PDF Classifieds ................................................................. format). We welcome letters, calls and e-mail from our readers. 37 Please tell us what you think! Gardening with Children ........................................ 36 We appreciate your patronage of our advertisers, who enable us to bring you this publication. Cathy the Crafty Gardener ..................................... All contents copyright 2018, Upstate Gardeners’ Journal. 38 On the cover: Corydalis lutea, Caledonia by Jane Milliman SUBSCRIBE! Never miss another issue to our area’s guide to everything gardeners want to know! Get the UGJ delivered to your door six times a year for just $20.00. NEW! Subscribe for 2 years for $38.00. TO GIVE AS A GIFT, simply check the gift option and add your name. We’ll send a notice and start the subscription. PREFER TO PAY WITH CREDIT CARD? Subscribe or renew by phone—585/733-8979—or on our website. upstategardenersjournal.com Subscribe for: ❍ 1 year: $20.00 ❍ 2 years: $38.00 (6 issues) (12 issues) Send subscription to: Name Address City State Zip ❏ This subscription is a gift from: Check enclosed for: M-J ’18 Thank you 390 Hillside Drive Rochester, NY 14610 585/733-8979 Ear to the Ground Contents LEFT: Louisana iris in the wild MIDDLE: Beignets for breakfast at Morning Call in New Orleans RIGHT: Cathy's favorite: ‘Watermelon Wizard’ Welcome spring—real, actual spring, finally. Finally! More on travel: We have decided to postpone our Cathy and I were lucky enough to get a respite from Scotland tour by a year, as we found we didn’t have enough the area’s vernal misery when we traveled to New Orleans run-up time to let people know about it. Look for the ad in for the annual convention of the American Iris Society in this issue and contact us with questions. April. Boy did we have fun! We saw a lot of Louisiana irises, We’re having fun with our new themed issues— including many in the wild—even from the windows of this one is garden trends—and are excited to present our coach bus. But we also took some time to explore the Katie DeTar’s look at the trends she discovered at the Big Easy, breakfasting on beignets, prowling the Garden Philadelphia Flower Show this year. Also, Michelle Sutton District, and, of course, enjoying a Sazerac or two. After all, profiles Carol Watson Greenhouse, definitely one of the the French Quarter festival was on while we were there. trendiest garden centers in CNY. To answer the question I know is burning in your Thanks so much, as always, for reading! mind, yes, we can grow Louisiana irises right here in upstate New York. You can even see a Louisiana iris garden in Rochester’s Highland Park, though it might possibly be more fun to visit them in their native environs. Jane Milliman, Publisher Top Quality Plants Grown in Our Greenhouses! Custom Planted Containers . Giant Selection of Hanging Baskets NEW and Hard-to-Find Annuals & Perennials www.mischlersflorist.com Full-service Florist Delivery Available Fairy Garden Festival 716.632.1290 . 118 South Forest Road (between Main and Wehrle) Workshops Storytime Discovery Bin and More Williamsville, NY 14221 Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24 Friendly, Knowledgable Staff Visit our website for details s s PALMITER’S GARDEN NURSERY Flower City Days at the Market With an impressive selection of flower and vegetable plants to choose from, Growing great gardens in the get everything you need for your home Genesee Valley for over 40 years! and garden at the City of Rochester Public Market! OPEN 8 a.m.- 2 p.m., Peonies —Tree, Herbaceous and Intersectional FIVE SUNDAYS AND MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND s 280 N. UNION ST. Hosta, Helleborus, Perennials Sundays, May 6, 13, 20, 27 & June 3 s Memorial Day Weekend Cacti and Succulents Fri., May 25; Sun., May 27 Specimen Jade Trees & Mon., May 28 s The Public Market is a great place Decorative Garden Pottery to buy and sell! Vendors welcome, including Burley, Made in USA call (585) 428-6907 to inquire about vending stall rentals. s Tufa Rock, Dwarf Conifers, Unusual Trees Call 311 www.cityofrochester.gov/ s flowercitydays Huge variety of Heirloom Tomatoes, and Sweet and Hot Peppers SPRING HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 9:00am-6:00pm Sunday 12:00pm-6:00pm Phone: (585) 226-3073 2675 Geneseo Road, Rt. 39 s of D s ar ou Ye g la 0 s Avon, New York 14414 0 s 2 1818 2018 C . I Y palmitersgardennursery.com T . Lovely A. Warren, Mayor Y N O R, F E Rochester City Council ROCHEST s s Almanac What To Do in the Garden in May & June MAY EDIBLES Check your ash trees for emerald ash borer and decide It’s your last chance to start some slow-growing seedlings if treatment or removal is warranted. Young, healthy trees early in the month, such as tomatoes and parsley. Soak parsley respond to treatment better than old, declining trees. If you seeds in lukewarm water for a few hours first. Consider getting have considerable land, consider leaving some ash trees alone, a heated germination mat to accelerate germination. After in case they prove to be resistant. germination, take the plants off the mat and hang fluorescent Either April or May is a good time to use your germination lights about four inches above them. It’s OK for seedlings to heat mat for getting heat-loving tropical “bulbs” such as have the lights on 24 hours a day—it will accelerate growth.