There comes a time about now in New Orleans when Spring feels almost gone and the beautiful displays of the very first native flowers are going to seed. Some of them will continue to bloom for some time, but the first flowers have faded, dried and turned brown….ripe for collecting! On almost every plant out […]
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We had out first in person membership meeting since the pandemic! It was held on the shady patio at Rosa Keller Library (site of a current NPI project) on a perfect weather Sunday morning. Board members Ann and Kathy signed in current members and signed up new members. Our president, Tammany, welcomed everyone and caught
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“How We Turned a Barren Construction Site Into A Gold Level Habitat In Less Than One Year” Tracey Banowetz Background Our interest in using native plants in our landscaping began over twenty five years ago as two of our hobbies – gardening and birdwatching – intertwined. For Dave, reading Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein back in
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This article by Dan Gill, former LSU AgCenter Horticulturist, explains why to use native plants in our landscapes. (07/29/16) “Native plants are not used as much as they could be in our landscapes. While natives cannot satisfactorily replace all of the many types of plants we use, incorporating native plants when and where we can
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Good news for native plant enthusiasts! ROSE GARDEN CENTER, 4005 West Bank Expressway now has a nice selection of native plant available. Show them some love!
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Photos of Big Lake Volunteers! Learn more about the project This video introduces the Big Lake Native Plant Trail and showcases some of the plants!
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THE BIG EASY NATIVE PLANT GUIDE written specifically for the greater New Orleans area by our own Susan Norris-Davis is now available after many months of development! It includes 47 species for both sun and shade, vetted for ease of growing, suitable for small city gardens, and available locally at listed sites. It is beautifully
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We enjoy our Spring gardening season so much here in the deep Gulf South, but once we get to July and August and into the real dog days of summer, with near constant tropical deluges and sauna-like heat, our gardens can just look tired and not at their best. Many of the garden plants we
http://www.briarwoodnp.org/ Caroline Coroneos Dormon (1888-1971) by Amy Graham of Longue Vue Gardens “I could no more have stopped studying birds, flowers, and trees and drawing them than I could have stopped breathing!” “Our swamp debutante (the iris) has become a horticultural queen, reigning in gardens around the world”, 1951 Considered Louisiana’s first conservationist and one
Millennials Require More From The Market Published October 2019 By Felice Lavergne “There seems to be a growing number of millennial native plant enthusiasts in the Greater New Orleans area, noticed in part because of the recent gatherings of the Native Plant Initiative of GNO, a new native plant organization focused on increasing the use
