St. Charles Parish Libraries has partnered again with the LSU AgCenter to offer a series of free gardening and horticulture classes. […]
Drivers cruising down Interstate 310 can see a bountiful bloom of native Louisiana irises peaking up from the swamp. […]
Some early satsuma varieties are showing orange already but mid-October marks the beginning of citrus season for most. ‘Brown’s Select’ should be ready this month, followed by ‘Owari,’ the two constituting probably our two most common varieties of surely our most common backyard species. […]
I’m all for national pride and unity, but who’s the darn Yankee who decided Labor Day is the end of summer in America? […]
August’s heat is at least as bad as July’s and we’re more tired of it by now. […]
I like some mums and I cannot lie. We often purchase chrysanthemums (“mums”) as potted plants to give a little short-term color to fall displays. But once the blooms fade, do we toss them? Leave them? I say we should pull them up quickly to retrieve them! They’re actually perennials (plants that live for many years) and many can be taken out of their pots and grown in the landscape. […]
Many Louisiana gardeners enjoy a summer landscape planting of caladiums. These are one of the most popular plants to fill shady gardens because they thrive in the heat and humidity common in Louisiana summers. Caladiums are a great, low-maintenance bedding plant.
The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae (cu-cur-bit-A-cee-ee), provides a wide variety of vegetables popular for the spring, summer and fall home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family (cucurbits) that can be planted now and into April include summer squash, zucchini, winter squash, mirliton (south Louisiana), pumpkin, gourd, cucuzzi, watermelon, cantaloupe, cushaw, luffa and, of course, cucumber. […]
It’s mid-March, and spring bedding-plant time is here for most of us. We have been eager to plant flowers this spring with our warm winter weather and the early arrival of springlike conditions in the landscape. […]
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