Rosa Keller Pull & Prune
2025-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center, 4300 South Broad in New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 70114-1389, United States
SECOND WEDNESDAY EVERY MONTH: ROSA KELLER PULL & PRUNE – Local garden consultants Whimscapes are leading the native plants maintenance team at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center (4300 South Broad in New Orleans). You’re invited to join the monthly “Pull & Prune” 4:00-6:00 p.m. on April 9 and May 14, The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators, and showcases the teamwork of NPI, the New Orleans Public Library system, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

Turtle Cove Research Station Field Trip
2025-05-31 08:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | turtle cove research station
This members-only Field Trip will include a pontoon boat ride down Pass Manchac, during which we will learn about the natural history of the physical environment, environmental history (social, economic, and cultural aspects), impacts of cypress deforestation and ecosystem restoration, and physical and socioeconomic impacts of and solutions to wetland loss and coastal erosion. We can expect to see a variety of flora and fauna, including alligators, snakes, birds, mammals, fish, and invertebrates.
Afterwards, attendees may wish to go on to a walk on the Joyce Wildlife Management Area SwampWalk.
Reserve your spot here!

Lafitte Greenway NPI Volunteer Day
2025-06-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Lafitte Greenway, Greenway Plaza, 436 N. Norman C. Francis Pkwy., New Orleans, Louisiana
Join us as Whimscapes guides NPI volunteers in nurturing our beloved roundabout native garden at Lafitte Greenway! Roll up your sleeves for a rewarding morning of community weeding that helps our local ecosystem thrive. Connect with fellow nature enthusiasts, learn about native plant care, and make a visible difference in our shared green space. No experience necessary—just bring your enthusiasm and help us keep this urban oasis blooming beautifully. Together, we’ll ensure our native plants have room to flourish while enjoying fresh air, good company, and the satisfaction of environmental stewardship. See you there!

Please meet at Greenway Plaza, 436 N. Norman C. Francis Pkwy.
For safety, please wear closed-toe shoes.
Gloves, tools, and snacks will be provided.

Every Friday: Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project
2025-06-20 08:00 - 2025-09-19 10:00 UTC | Big Lake, City Park, 7 Freiderichs Ave
Put your gardening skills to work (and learn some new ones) on Fridays 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail in New Orleans City Park (the trail is near the boat and bike rental on Friedrichs Avenue). Pull weeds, prune, plant, and work with some of the most knowledgeable gardeners around. City Park provides tools, clean gloves, water, and insect repellent or you can bring your own. Pick a Friday (or two? or more?) and sign up at the City Park Conservancy Volunteer Calendar of Events webpage. If you have questions, email team leaders Susan Norris-Davis or Jennifer Prout.

NPI Meeting at Longue Vue Gardens
2025-06-28 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
NPI MEETING AT LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS, 7 BAMBOO ROAD, NEW ORLEANS – Meet at the gatehouse (follow the link above and scroll down for a map) for a tour of the Wild Garden led by plant experts from Whimscapes and Chris and Sophie from Longue Vue. If you’re wondering what plants we’re likely to see at their summertime best, check out Longue Vue’s “What’s in Bloom?” webpage. As always, anyone and everyone (NPI member or not) is welcome to attend the meeting and to share native plants and seeds.

Pull & Prune 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center
2025-07-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Pull & Prune at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center (4300 South Broad in New Orleans). The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators, and showcases the teamwork of NPI, the New Orleans Public Library system, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

SEED PACKING & DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AT THE MATERIAL INSTITUTE
2025-07-26 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
SEED PACKING & DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AT THE MATERIAL INSTITUTE, 2120 PORT STREET, NEW ORLEANS – The Material Institute is a nonprofit center that focuses on learning and collaboration from art to music to gardening. The institute will host NPI in a cool and comfy indoor space to break down seed heads, pack giveaway seeds into envelopes, put info stickers on the envelopes, and enjoy “Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration,” a documentary about the native seed supply chain in the western United States. No sign-up required. Meet at the community garden across the street from the Material Institute; seed packing and documentary screening will be inside the institute (see photos above; institute entrance is the door on the right with the red outline in the photo).

2025-09-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Note that pulling and pruning now happens on second Tuesdays (previously on second Wednesdays) and that times are now 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 9, Pull & Prune 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center (4300 South Broad in New Orleans). The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators, and showcases the teamwork of NPI, the New Orleans Public Library system, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

NPI MEETING WITH NATURE WALK & PLANT PROPAGATION WORKSHOP
2025-09-20 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
The Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association is going all in on native plants! This beautiful historic neighborhood wants to increase biodiversity and green space one block at a time, so NPI has been invited to help residents learn about ethically collecting and propagating native seeds. As always, anyone and everyone (NPI member or not) is welcome to attend the meeting and to share native plants and seeds.
Meet at ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 2624 BURGUNDY STREET, NEW ORLEANS
9:00-10:30 a.m. Urban nature walk with NPI Board Member Helen Sierminski, who’ll introduce us to birds, plants, and people.
10:30 a.m.-noon Plant propagation workshop led by Ellie of New Orleans City Park Pelican Greenhouse: inland sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) and blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) seeds and beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) cuttings.
Bring your own seed tray and or pots, if you can.

Fall Garden Show in New Orleans
2025-10-04 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
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
2025-10-11 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
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 research model for future climate resilience projects. Here’s a sneak peek at the microforest and more about its background and our guide. As always, anyone and everyone (NPI member or not) is welcome to attend the meeting and to share native plants and seeds.
2640 LAMANCHE, NEW ORLEANS

Pull & Prune will go on!
2025-10-14 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
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
2025-10-16 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
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 roundabout garden: the Greenway is about to get a whole lot greener! BONUS: The Crescent City Farmers Market happens on the Greenway at Lafitte Avenue and Norman C. Francis Parkway 3:00-7:00 p.m. on October 16 too!

Pull & Prune at Rosa Keller Library
2025-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center, 4300 South Broad in New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 70114-1389, United States

Vote for NPI board members
2025-12-04 - 2025-12-06
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 all NPI members on Thursday, December 4. Digital voting ends at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 6.
VOTE IN PERSON – NPI members can vote in person at the December 6 meeting (see the For Your Calendar section above).

December NPI MEETING WITH TOUR AND PAPER-MAKING WORKSHOP AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY
2025-12-06 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
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 the Native Art Garden at the Art Village, and learn how to make paper from native plants from a Xavier professor (see the campus map for Art Village and parking locations). As always, anyone and everyone (NPI member or not) is welcome to attend the meeting and to share native plants and seeds.

Prune and Pull Lafitte Greenway
2025-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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 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.

Prepping and Planting at Washington Square Park
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-14 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
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 one of the city’s most visible public spaces. No sign up required.

Gardening in Longue Vue's Native wildflower path
2025-12-18 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us the second to last Thursday of each month, 8:30 – 10:30 at Longue Vue, 7 Bamboo Road.
Gardening work will take place along the path of Native Wildflowers. Come dig alongside the garden staff in beautiful Longue Vue’s gardens!
Bring your water bottle, gloves, hats, and any other proper attire.
For questions and to sign up, please email Lee at lgradiz@longuevue.com

Volunteer Call for Longue Vue's Wildflower Path
2025-12-18 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Chicago)

Prune and Pull Rosa Keller Library
2026-01-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, Pull & Prune 3:00-5:00 p.m. at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center (4300 South Broad in New Orleans). The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators, and showcases the teamwork of NPI, the New Orleans Public Library system, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

Prune and Pull Lafitte Greenway
2026-02-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Lafitte Greenway, Greenway Plaza, 436 N. Norman C. Francis Pkwy., New Orleans, Louisiana
Pull & Prune 3:00-5:00 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.

Every Friday: Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project
2026-02-13 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-03-13 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Big Lake, City Park, 7 Freiderichs Ave
Put your gardening skills to work (and learn some new ones) at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail in New Orleans City Park (the trail is near the boat and bike rental on Friedrichs Avenue). Pull weeds, prune, plant, and work with some of the most knowledgeable gardeners around. City Park provides tools, clean gloves, water, and insect repellent or you can bring your own. Pick a Friday (or two? or more?) and sign up at the City Park Conservancy Volunteer Calendar of Events webpage. If you have questions, email team leaders Susan Norris-Davis or Jennifer Prout.

Gardening in Longue Vue's Native wildflower path
2026-02-19 08:30 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | Longue Vue, 7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans, LA, 70124, United States
Go a little wild with volunteer projects in Longue Vue’s native garden on the second to last Thursday of each month. Bring your own water bottle, gloves, hat, and insect repellent. To sign up, visit the Longue Vue volunteer webpage or email Leigh.

Cook-Off For The Coast
2026-02-28 10:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Docville Farm, 5124 East ST. Bernard Highway, Violet, LA, 70092, United States
NPI joins the coastal restoration party with a booth to give away plants and share native plant information. This free event features live music, local artists, kids’ activities, organizations dedicated to saving Louisiana’s coast, and a fish and game cooking competition between local chefs. Volunteers are needed to set up, staff, and take down the NPI table. Shift times are 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 1:00-4:00 p.m.; sign up to volunteer here. Even if you can’t volunteer, stop by the cook-off and help save our coast!

Louisiana Native Plant Society Annual Conference
2026-03-06 15:00 - 2026-03-08 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Acadian Baptist Center, 1202 Academy Dr,, Eunice, LA, 70535, United States
Grasslands? Forests? Backyard gardens? If it’s a native plant, the annual conference has it covered. Enjoy outstanding speakers, fascinating field trips and films, a silent auction, info and sales tables from native plant groups from throughout the state, and of course the chance to meet other native plant enthusiasts. Register by Friday, February 20, here- https://www.lnps.org/.

Seed Packing At Beanlandia
2026-03-07 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Beanlandia, 3300 Royal St., New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Get hands-on in habitat restoration by helping NPI process native seeds that will be distributed across the area; it’s a great way to meet other gardeners and share your love of Louisiana’s blooming beauty. No sign-up required.

Prune and Pull Rosa Keller Library
2026-03-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Rosa Keller Library, 4300 S Broad Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70125, United States
The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators, and showcases the teamwork of NPI, the New Orleans Public Library system, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.
