White Shi Shi October Magic: An Up-and-Coming Camellia Sasanqua Variety We all know and love the classic ‘Shi Shi Gashira’ for it’s slow-growth, evergreen foliage, and relatively low maintenance. For the longest time, I’ve had gardeners asking me for something similar but with different color blooms. The Shi Shi Gashiras have such a unique growth […]
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How to Prep and Plant Fall Edible Garden Beds in Louisiana Louisiana Nursery is getting stocked up on all your fall favorites, so now is the time to plan, prep, and get planting! Temperatures are still a bit higher than we’d like, but there’s only so many days in the cool season. Waiting too long
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What Heat Stress Is and How to Prevent and Treat It in Louisiana Plants Having worked at Louisiana Nursery for many years now – both out on the lot and inside the office – I’ve seen my fair-share of heat-stressed plants. Even with sprinklers in the morning and multiple hand-waterings a day, some plants still
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Our Green Thumb Series: A Complete Guide to Fertilizers and Plant Food Fertilizers or “plant food” come in many forms. All the different fertilizer brands – and there are many – must offer products for both the very specific and very general needs of the people who buy them. Knowing the exhaustive list of mineral
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Late-Summer Landscape Maintenance to Help Louisiana Plants Finish Strong It’s hot; it’s humid; it’s rainy. Your plants are likely feeling the effects of our intense summer climate. Try to find some time in the next few weeks for these landscape maintenance tasks that will help to keep your landscape looking fresh for the rest of
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Finding the right plants for shady areas in Louisiana can be a real challenge, especially given the state’s hot, humid climate and unpredictable weather patterns. For gardeners and plant enthusiasts, selecting the best plants for shady areas means more than just picking what looks good; it’s about choosing varieties that thrive in low-light conditions. Discover
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Satsuma Trees: Louisiana’s Favorite Citrus Variety and How to Grow Them Satsumas are a real icon of Louisiana gardeners! They’re hardy enough to survive our mild freezes without issue. They produce white fragrant flowers, and glossy evergreen leaves. Over time, growers have honed their grafting and breeding practices to get better tasting fruits, more plentiful
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The Right Tool for the Job We get a lot of questions about pruning. How far back should a plant be pruned? What time of year? With what tools? It would be impossible to answer all these questions at one time. So, let’s start at the very beginning, and in the weeks to come, we’ll
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Watering Made Simple Temperatures are skyrocketing in Louisiana, and your garden is feeling the heat! In a perfect world, we’d all have drip-irrigation systems professionally installed with perfect coverage for the entire landscape (and they’d all be pulling from a 2000-gallon rainwater collector, of course!). However, in the real world, most people are still using
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Succulents Are for Everyone: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Them Successfully Thinking about starting a plant collection but unsure where to begin? Don’t worry, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the many types of plants out there. How about giving succulents a try? Even though they might seem a little scary at first, they’re actually
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