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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
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 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.
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 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 […]
