• Botanica: Gardens, Landscapes, and Plant Medicines in South Louisiana

    Cabildo/Louisiana State Museum The Cabildo, 701 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Now Until Sunday May 10, 2026

    Explore the cultural meaning of Louisiana medicinal plants and how historically based understandings of them are evolving under the threat of climate change and land loss.

  • Fall Garden Show in New Orleans

    The New Orleans Fall Garden show will take place for one day, Saturday, October 4th, 2025 in City Park. The Botanical Garden will be alive with gardening gurus from all over the southeast. The event features 50+ vendors exhibiting common and exotic plants as well as various gardening paraphernalia.  

  • NPI MEETING WITH MIYAWAKI MICROFOREST TOUR GARDEN OF THE 21st CENTURY

    The garden's Bonnie-Kate Walker will guide a walk through the 3,000-square-foot Miyawaki microforest, now in its first year of growth in the Lower Ninth Ward. The garden is a condensed bottomland hardwood ecoregion with cypress, tupelo, live oak, and hackberry. This small but mighty native forest restoration project is a community-led effort that serves as a […]

  • Pull & Prune will go on!

    Pull & Prune 5:00-7:00 p.m.on Tuesday, October 16th at the Lafitte Greenway Roundabout (Lafitte Greenway at Norman C. Francis Parkway in New Orleans) in preparation for planting on Thursday the 16th.

  • Planting at Lafitte Greenway Roundabout

    Thursday, October 16, Plant 4:00-7:00 p.m. at the Lafitte Greenway Roundabout (Lafitte Greenway at Norman C. Francis Parkway in New Orleans). The greenway is a 2.6-mile bike and pedestrian path that connects neighborhoods, serves as a transportation corridor, and features stormwater management practices. At the planting party NPI will help add 20 native species to the […]

  • Vote for NPI board members

    VOTE NATIVE - NPI members can vote digitally or in person for NPI president, secretary, and two  members of the board of directors December 4-6. To check your membership status or to join NPI, go to the NPI Join It link. VOTE ONLINE - NPI member can vote via a digital ballot that will be sent to […]

  • December NPI MEETING WITH TOUR AND PAPER-MAKING WORKSHOP AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY

    NPI MEETING WITH TOUR AND PAPER-MAKING WORKSHOP AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, 3520 LOWERLINE STREET, NEW ORLEANS - Recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus and dedicated to planting natives on its campus, Xavier University is a showplace for Louisiana greenery AND is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2025! Meet, greet, explore […]

  • Prune and Pull Lafitte Greenway

    PULL & PRUNE -  Volunteer days are on the second Tuesday of the month and alternate monthly between the Lafitte Greenway Roundabout and Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center. Local garden consultants and native plants maintenance team leaders Whimscapes are on hand to direct the work. No sign up required. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9,  Pull & Prune 3:00-5:00 […]

  • Prepping and Planting at Washington Square Park  

    SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14     11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.     Prepping and Planting at Washington Square Park  (700 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans)     Join the Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association and New Orleans Parks and Parkways to prep on Saturday, plant on Sunday, and create a native plants showplace in […]