Gardening Friends of Pulaski NY

04/13/2026

Dont miss our sale!

04/13/2026

Get April 21, 6:30pm on your calendar! Comments can't be responded to, so if you have questions, TEXT them to 315-529-4462. Bring a friend and come to the meeting!

03/25/2026

The easiest way to help pollinators is to keep something blooming for as long as possible. It doesn’t have to be complicated or fancy. 🌸
A few smart planting tips:
💜 Plant flowers in clumps instead of one here and one there
☀️ Most pollinator favorites bloom best in full sun
✂️ Deadhead some flowers, but leave plenty open for bees and butterflies
🌼 Mixing early, mid, and late bloomers keeps the garden active longer
Even a small flower bed can turn into a pollinator stop. ✨

03/13/2026

Keep the butterflies healthy, happy and well fed!

Most butterfly gardens are missing one thing.

You planted nectar flowers.
Butterflies came.
And then… they disappeared.

Because nectar doesn’t make butterflies.

Caterpillars do.

A butterfly only lays eggs on very specific plants — called host plants.
Without them, your yard feeds adults for a few minutes… but produces zero new butterflies.

A true butterfly garden is not a feeding station.
It’s a life cycle.

Here are the plants butterflies actually need to reproduce:

• Milkweed (Asclepias) — the only nursery Monarchs have. No milkweed = no monarch generation.
• Dill, Fennel & Parsley — Black Swallowtail caterpillars live entirely on these leaves.
• Native Violets — required for Fritillary butterflies to exist in your yard at all.
• Native Asters — Pearl Crescent butterflies only lay eggs here.
• Spicebush — home of the Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar (the “fake snake” one).
• Passionflower vines — where Gulf Fritillary and Zebra Longwing butterflies begin their lives.

Here’s the part most people don’t expect:

If you never see chewed leaves…
you don’t have a butterfly garden.

You have a butterfly café.

When you start seeing caterpillars, ragged foliage, and half-eaten plants —
that’s not damage.

That’s the next generation.

03/13/2026

If you want nonstop color without constant replanting 🌼✨ These 14 tough perennials bring repeat blooms, stronger borders, and a garden that always looks cared for 💜

02/14/2026

11/23/2025

Anybody want a freshly dug up ornamental grass? It is a pretty one, but I planted it too close to something else. Handy hubby with his new-to-him big boy toy dug it, and it is ready for pick up. It is about a third to half of the size of the one in last picture. If interested, contact Vic L-dG and come get it!

11/21/2025

Our Club had a great time.at this week's meeting creating an adorable Christmas craft. Thank you to Linda Cough who organized and taught us and to Salmon River Fine Arts Center for hosting us.

09/02/2025

A quick snip makes all the difference for peonies, hostas & more ✨

08/28/2025

Hostas, phlox, peonies, coneflowers… they all multiply when divided 💚

08/05/2025

Yay! We now have a new legitimate excuse for adding to our gardens!