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Position Statement Regarding Habitat Gardens and Communication Toolkit from LNPS

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Louisiana Native Plant Society (LNPS) recently put out a statement on habitat gardening and best practices for ecological resilience.  The Native Plant Initiative of GNO is aligned with this statement and supports property owners adherence to best practices of land and water conservation as crucial wildlife habitat.  You can read the entire position statement HERE. […]

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Abita Garden Story

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“How We Turned a Barren Construction Site Into A Gold Level Habitat In Less Than One Year” Tracey Banowetz Background Our interest in using native plants in our landscaping began over twenty five years ago as two of our hobbies – gardening and birdwatching – intertwined.  For Dave, reading Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein back in

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Dan Gill on Native Plants

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This article by Dan Gill, former LSU AgCenter Horticulturist, explains why to use native plants in our landscapes. (07/29/16) “Native plants are not used as much as they could be in our landscapes. While natives cannot satisfactorily replace all of the many types of plants we use, incorporating native plants when and where we can

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Mallow Madness!!!

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We enjoy our Spring gardening season so much here in the deep Gulf South, but once we get to July and August and into the real dog days of summer, with near constant tropical deluges and sauna-like heat, our gardens can just look tired and not at their best.   Many of the garden plants we

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Caroline Dormon

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http://www.briarwoodnp.org/ Caroline Coroneos Dormon (1888-1971) by Amy Graham of Longue Vue Gardens “I could no more have stopped studying birds, flowers, and trees and drawing them than I could have stopped breathing!”  “Our swamp debutante (the iris) has become a horticultural queen, reigning in gardens around the world”, 1951 Considered Louisiana’s first conservationist and one

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