The NY Botanical Garden will host a free Career Information Session on Wednesday, November 11, 6–8 p.m. in the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall. Pre-registration is encouraged; call 718.817.8747 or 800.322.NYBG (6924). More info at nybg.org, under EDUCATION.

Here’s a link to the nybg blog, with a post from Sarah Lusardi about how the school [...]

Nov. 9
Crompond: Herbal Solutions for Getting Through the Flu Season. Speaker: Andrea Candee. $15. 7 p.m. Garden Road School, 99 Baron de Hirsch Road. 914-526-4033.

Nov. 11
Armonk: Bow Making and Table Arrangement. Green Acres Garden Club. Free. 10 a.m. North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Road East. 914-273-3887.
Yonkers: Hudson River Audubon Society Field Trip. A tailgate [...]

From the folks at Wave Hill, the great public garden in Riverdale:

“November events at Wave Hill:

Sun, Nov 1

Sunday Brunch
Family Art Project: River Masquerade/Celebrando el río Hudson
Andree Brown Jewelry Trunk Show in The Shop at Wave Hill
Wool-Dyeing Demonstration with Artist Robyn Love

Fri, Nov 6
Memoir Writing–Seasonal Writing Series: Session 5

Sat, Nov 7
Family Art Project: Dances with Leaves/Baile [...]

“Alliums All Season Long,” by Stephanie Cohen in Fine Gardening

Perennials: Continue planting bulbs. Mulch loosely with leaves or straw. Protect from squirrel foraging with plastic fruit boxes, screening or soak them in a deer repellent. A scattering of mothballs might help, too. It is too soon to mulch beds, but collect fallen oak leaves and pine needles to use later, after the ground freezes.

Flowers: [...]

This time, we’ve got enormous pumpkins grown by Frank Mucci of Harrison.

Here’s a note I got from Ward Olmsted, Frank’s next-door neighbor (the one with a computer), along with photos of the pumpkins he displayed in the recent “It’s Great To Live In Harrison Day” parade. Here’s Ward:

“As seen here in the photos, his parade [...]

Here’s a news item from Chris Beytes of the GrowerTalks newsletter. Makes me worry about the budgets for our Cornell extension offices, with financial woes across New York state.
“Big budget cuts coming to MSU
“Times are tough all over, and the academic world has been hard hit by ongoing budget cuts in recent years (anyone seen [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, daffodils have moved way beyond basic yellow and white. Now home gardeners can choose from a palette that includes salmon, soft peach, fiery orange, mustard, apricot, even mauve and rose.

This year, a daffodil called ‘Tickled Pink’ comes to the table. It’s so new that “it was still in the process [...]

Perennials: Prune back chrysanthemums as soon as they finish blooming. Finish cutting down all perennials except those with interesting seed heads, which can be left for winter interest — and for hungry birds. Rake up and destroy fallen leaves under rose bushes to reduce the carryover of insect and disease problems. Prepare to mound up [...]

“Planting Bulbs in Containers,” from Fine Gardening

On Sunday, I potted up two containers of daffodils, for spring forcing. It’s so easy — plus I’ve got a dark, unheated basement that’s ideal for storage over the winter.

Don’t know how? Here’s a link to a post from last year with photos etc.