Gifts of Creation / Creation of Gifts an Essay by board member Susan Norris-Davis
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Collecting Native Seeds – June
This time of year brings such joy to native gardeners as pollinator activity on native plants really picks up and progression of flowering in the garden marches on from one species to the next. As early species decline and start to set seed, we have an opportunity to collect ripe seed from our plants to
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LawnLess / LessLawn
“Lawn is an ecological deadzone” says Doug Tallamy and yet it is the default option for so much of our landscaping. This year’s NPI exhibit at the NOLA Spring Garden Show, April 2nd and 3rd, will focus on ways property owners can reduce or eliminate their lawn area and replace them with native plantings that
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Top Native Plants for Wildlife in LA
Click on this list of Top Native Plants including trees, shrubs, forbs, and graminoids that are beneficial to Louisiana wildlife. Use these plants in your garden and attract more birds, butterflies, and other animals. Have fun!
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Feed the Birds!
Native plants are an important food source to local and migratory birds species. Birds feed on berries, seed heads, nectar, and insects using the plant as a host. Read more HERE and learn what plants to use to feed the birds in your garden!
Native Seeds to Collect Now (late May-early June)
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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Abita Garden Story
“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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Dan Gill on Native Plants
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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Caroline Dormon
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