2024 Upcoming Events:
Celebrate!
Saturday, May 11 10am - 2pm
Join us at the historic Orchard Park Train Depot. Our Mayor will be dedicating the
Village Orchard at 1pm. The Garden Club will be celebrating from 10am through 2pm with
moms and blooms, bees and birds, butterflies and fun. Join in with . . .
The curious hens from OP's own Wagner Farm.
Decorate your own flower and bee cookies from OP's Bookend Baker. With your dessert purchase, you will be entered to win a dozen decorated sugar cookies - yum!
Browse a Boutique Plant Sale: Hanging baskets, vouchers for local nurseries, and perennials from the gardens of Club members, plus . . .
Locally sourced, native milkweed from Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farm in Clarence, New York! Learn how to attract and support caterpillars, butterflies, and beneficial pollinators with a video presentation by Dave O'Donnell, Western New York's 'Butterfly Man'.
Pick up a signed copy of Davey's Butterfly Farm.
This 32-page picture book by Dave O'Donnell, illustrated by Jeffrey Scott Perdziak, tells the story of Western New York's own Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farm. Learn how the smallest intervention in nature - and in your own garden - can have a big impact.
Family activities! Bring an outgrown sneaker and plant with colorful annuals. Take a picture with our "butterfly wings." Learn about the role pollinators play in gardens and farms.
At the library at 12pm, catch Tom Anderson's presentation on "Best Practices" for attracting birds and pollinators to your yard. Tom is an ISA Certified Arborist and the Buffalo District Manager of Davey Tree Expert Company. He holds a bachelor's degree in natural resource management from SUNY ESF - College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry.
In the library community display case, Celebrate Conservation in the Garden will feature photographs of native flowers and beneficial insects from the garden of Club member Margaret Woollatt.
