Mark your calendars for education programs, plant sales, music, and more: it’s THE spring event for plant people! The NPI booth will help gardeners corral those dad-blasted bad weeds that are whooping it up in our gardens by showcasing the NPI website’s Good Weed, Bad Weed database. Saddle up and lend a hand, partner: VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED on […]
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Good Weed? Bad Weed? Susan Norris-Davis shared the inside scoop on how to identify and work with those volunteer plants that pop up in our gardens during the March NPI meeting at the Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center. Susan has spent years creating the Good Weed/Bad Weed database that’s available on the NPI website and shared
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If you’re a native plant professional or wish you were, here’s the training you’ve been waiting for! The Louisiana Native Plant Society is creating a training course that will result in Louisiana Native Plant Professional Certification. Learn more and sign up for updates.
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NPI is holding an image contest themed Habitat Harmony: Wildlife and Native Plants. Your image may be a photograph, painting or other “image” expressing this theme. Our in-house committee will select 5 submissions and have them on display for the public to vote at our booth at the Fall Garden Festival in October. The top
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The Gift of the Wild Things, Good Weeds and Bad Weeds by Susan Norris-Davis Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work in various public gardens dedicated to native plants and to share knowledge pertaining to their role in sustaining the health of our wider regional ecosystems. Since they are gardens open to
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Contributed by Robert Shaw – January 2024 Kill some of your lawn, maybe, or better yet, Kill your traditional lawn maintenance practices because for some people in some places, the native St. Augustine grass that many of us inherited along with our yards might be the best option to meet certain needs of small city
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Muhly Grass is an impressive native grass that has become very popular in all sorts of landscapes, not just native. Native grassed are wonderful for their tough character, drought and heat tolerance. They offer a contrasting texture in the landscape and GREAT late-season interest when they go into bloom in Fall and hold they inflorescences
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ORDERING FOR THIS ITEM IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. For items ordered by Dec 1st, PICK-UP is scheduled for Saturday, December 16th, from 8am-noon at 5315 St Anthony, New Orleans LA. Shipped items will go out that day as well, if not before. Local artist Caroline Hill, http://www.chillplease.com/, was commissioned for this one-of-a-kind design portraying 15 of
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Native Plants Reach a Local Landmark with UNO Certification At 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 6, at the University of New Orleans (UNO) Amphitheater garden, the Louisiana Certified Habitat Program will reach a landmark when the Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans (NPIGNO) certifies the 100th New Orleans area habitat. The certified habitat program
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Land, water, plants, and animals: the “heritage” part of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival isn’t only focused on human-created culture in 2023. Jazz Fest coordinator Laura Renee Westbrook took the long view and invited area native plant advocates to provide native plants and remind fest-goers that without its natural environment, the unique culture
