Beautiful trees, elegant ribbons & bows, show-stopping Christmas lights… the season of giving is in full-swing! When you’re out buying gifts and checking lists, it can be easy to forget about your live Christmas greenery back home. To help you keep everything as fresh as possible throughout December, we put together a helpful Christmas Greenery […]
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Wild Turkeys: American Icon There’s probably no critter more closely associated with Thanksgiving in the American mind than the humble Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), a large bird native to North America. An estimated 88% of Americans eat Turkey for Thanksgiving (I grew up in a ham family myself). In 2023, Americans ate approximately 5 billion pounds
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New Orleans is a city with many charms and attractions, but one of my personal favorites is the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Located in City Park, the Garden is free to enter and open seven days a week. The 11-acre garden is wheelchair accessible, and a winding path takes you through gorgeously landscaped water gardens lined
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Hummingbirds: Priceless Jewels of the Garden Birdwatching can be habit-forming. If I’m near a window or outside, my eyes automatically scan for movement or color, latching onto passing butterflies and falling leaves alike. Like many birders, I am hopelessly addicted to hummingbirds. Their gem-like colors and acrobatic flight can be hypnotic. The way they seem
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Wigging Out! Earwig Fact & Fiction While gumbo may know no season, there’s something about a simmering soup in the fall; the way it invites you to stand still for an afternoon, knowing you’ll have something delicious at hand for the rest of the week. National Gumbo Day is coming up (October 12)! I’m standing
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OCTOADBER (Source: flickr) Ahh, late September in Louisiana! We’ve gotten a little teaser of cooler temperatures and we’re all eager for more. The full moon this last week with a partial eclipse was a perfect way to kick off this year’s spooky season. While we may still have plenty of hot days left in the
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In the whole of nature, few creatures play a role as vital and captivating as bees. Awareness of their ecological & agricultural impact is higher than ever; conservationists, gardeners, the general public – and their most patient friends – are all about Saving The Bees. So how do we translate that awareness into true understanding,
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Have you ever noticed the vibrant colors and smooth textures emerging from beneath the peeling bark of crape myrtles? This summer spectacle is familiar in Louisiana gardens, so much that many people think it’s a crape myrtle exclusion trait. However, a wide variety of trees in our region shed their bark, each with
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More than pollination or nector, host plants are crucial for the continuation of a species. For Monarchs, that extra special plant used for food and laying eggs is the milkweed! From the genus Asclepias, milkweeds are available in many varieties, with tons of colorful blooms to choose from. We even carry the native swamp milkweed
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