FCGN's event at Norbut Solar Farms on August 28, 2024 was great fun and very interesting. The wood-fired pizza and salads were delicious, and it was a treat to enjoy a meal together. The farm is fascinating as well as beautiful, and staff there did a bang-up job of leading tours of the facilities and explaining the environmental, sustainable and community emphasis of their operations.

On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:30-8 pm, the Flower City Garden Network visited Tin Win’s garden in Penfield, NY. Tin’s attractive front yard contains beds with perennials and ornamental trees and shrubs, while the back yard is varied, peaceful, and inviting with Tin’s faborite ornamentals trees, hydrangeas, and perennials.

Those of us who got to visit Tim Boebel’s garden in Bloomfield, NY, on July 25th & 30th were privileged to take in a sight seldom seen – a yard just full of so many beautiful plants in bloom. And what could be prettier than a garden of billowing shrubs in pink, blue and purple (H. macrophylla and serrata), along with the white of H. paniculatas and arborescens? Tim grows a large number of different cultivars and several species of Hydrangea, some quite rare.

On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, members and guests of the Flower City Garden Network visited the always-delightful Brighton, NY garden of Jerry Kral. A top garden in the Rochester area, Jerry’s garden is large and multilayered, and he uses the most choice and unusual plants in a seamless and artful way so that every view is a beautiful combination of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals.

If you were lucky enough to get to Susan Buckner’s garden in Scottsville, NY on June 11, 2024, wasn’t it wonderful? The word that kept coming up was amazing. So many gorgeous plants, some old favorites and many unusual varieties…

Our get-together in Annee Reynolds’s garden in Webster, NY on May 21, 2024 was quite delightful. It was very well attended, and indeed the landscape was a fairyland…

Our wildflower walk at Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve in Macedon, NY on Friday, April 26, 2024, was delightful. The weather was cool but sunny and the woodland was looking fresh from the spring rains.

The Flower City Garden Network was so pleased with how our annual swap went on January 27, 2024. Attendance was great, with lots of friends–old and new–interested in getting together to talk about gardening and to swap some great finds.