• ST. ANTHONY GREEN STREETS AND PUBLIC ART – Gatto Playground

    Gatto Playground, 1929 Wildair St 1929 Wildair Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

    We are excited to resume in-person community events for both St. Anthony Green Streets and the Public Art Projects in the Gentilly Resilience District. On May 15, Artists Langston Allston, Courtney Egan, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Ashley Pridmore will lead hands-on creative activities for all ages focused on the themes of water, remembrance, adaptation, and ecology.  […]

  • NPI In-Person Membership Meeting

    Rosa Keller Library 4300 S Broad Avenue, New Orleans, LA, United States

    NPI-GNO is missing our members! On Sunday May 16th at 9:00 am, we will have our 1st in-person meeting since last year!  Let’s meet in the courtyard of the Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center, corner of General Pershing and Napoleon Ave., weather permitting,  (watch the NPI Facebook page for notifications.)  Off-street parking is available in the library’s lot […]

  • Laffite Greenway Volunteer Opportunity

    Greenway Plaza 500 N. Norman C. Francis Parkway, New Orleans

    Come join us in picking up trash, clearing overhanging branches, and pulling non-native weeds from our bioswales. Meet up at the Greenway Plaza, where we will be divided into groups and sent down both directions of the Greenway. While we will be able to provide some pruners, saws and trash pickers, we encourage you to bring […]

  • UNO Woodlot Restoration Kick Off

     Help us launch our effort to provide expanded habitat for migrating birds at UNO! We will remove invasive species from the Fine Arts WOODLOT and prepare the area for 50 bird-friendly native trees and shrubs to be planted this winter.   Please bring water, gloves and wear long pants, close-toed shoes, and socks. Shovels and clippers […]

  • Membership Meeting and Plant/Seed Swap

    Rosa Keller Library 4300 S Broad Avenue, New Orleans, LA, United States

    Join us for our last Membership Meeting of the year.  We will meet again on the side patio of the Rosa F. Keller Library at 4300 S. Broad.  Those inserted can join us early at 8:30 for some cutting back and tending of the Prairie plantings and native gardens that we have been working on […]

  • UNO Woodlot Planting

    UNO Fine Arts Woodlot Founders Road, New Orleans, LA, United States

    We will be planting at least 16 additional native species to the Woodlot to support more birds and wildlife on campus....Winterberry hollies, Possumhaw, Eastern Red Cedar, Yaupon, Itea, Waxmyrtles, American Hornbeam and more.... See you there!

  • LNPS Annual Meeting

    Wesley Center, Woodworth, LA 2350 Methodist Pkwy, Woodworth, LA, United States

    The Louisiana Native Plant Society meets annually, the first weekend of February, in Central Louisiana.  Details, Speaker agendas and bios and info about the Field Trip are posted at lnps.org.  It's great opportunity to learn from and network with native plant enthusiast throughout the state.  Registration info should be available on their website soon.

  • Membership Meeting – UNO Woodlot

    UNO Fine Arts Woodlot Founders Road, New Orleans, LA, United States

    We will meet on the site of our latest project at the UNO Fine Arts Woodlot where we have recently helped plant additional native woody species to attract and support wildlife on the campus.  More plantings are scheduled in adjacent areas.  We will tour the site and discuss the existing native plants, the preparation that […]

  • Spring Garden Show

    City Park Botanical Garden

    Where: New Orleans Botanical Garden Parking: Street Parking and Parking Lot Admission: $10/Adults; $5/Children 5 to 12; free for kids under 5 and Friends of City Park members