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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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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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
The wild garden we call Louisiana is a beautiful and busy place in April: native iris, sage, and primrose in bloom; birds building nests in bald cypress, pine, magnolia, and oak trees; bees and butterflies visiting flowering shrubs and reminding us of the pollinators’ role in the berries we’ll enjoy this summer and fall. To
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UNO has recently completed the terms of a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant which enabled the purchase and planting of certain areas of campus that are now part of their Urban Bird Trail. NPI helped coordinate, plan and implement the plantings along with volunteers from Upward Bound Youth Group, Orleans Audubon, Master Naturalists, UNO
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Saturday, Jan. 28th, 9am – 12 pm, 1235 Deslonde St., Lower 9th Ward, NOLA Hosted by Lower 9th Ward Homeownership Association and Neighborhood Association Sunday, Feb. 5th, 10am-1pm, 615 Opelousas Ave., Algiers Point, NOLA. Hosted by Algiers-Berhman Community Garden Saturday, Feb. 11th, 10am-12pm, 1855 Duels Street, 7th Ward, NOLA. Hosted by Healthy Community Services These great community partners are
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