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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“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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Last Saturday morning in November, we spent a few hours removing invasive tree saplings from the UNO Woodlot. This is the kick-off of a multi-phase project on UNO’s campus to enhance bird and wildlife habitat by planting native shrubs and trees to further develop a urban birding trail on campus where over 130 species of
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Thank you to Thomas Rainer and Claudia West for coming to the New Orleans Botanic Gardens to teach us design skills, to create more vital and ecologically functional plantings for green infrastructure, public plantings, and residential gardens based on native plant communities. They were inspirational, enthusiastic, and most enjoyable! Their book, Planting in a Post-Wild World is
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