Gardening Tips – September 2013

Preparing Roses for Fall Blooms Duchesse de Brabant Rose gardens need pruning, disease management and proper fertilization now for flowering in September and October. Late summer pruning of modern rose […]

Gardening Tips – July 2013

Pests and Diseases in the Garden Pentas Continue to monitor pests and diseases in the garden and treat for specific problems. Plants can be more susceptible to problems due to […]

Gardening Tips – May 2013

Begonia Warm Season Plants for Summer Color Start adding warm season bedding plants to provide color in your landscape. While petunias and calibrachoas (supertunias) are still blooming, they will start […]

Gardening Tips – November 2012

Foxglove Camelot series (Blooms in Spring) Autumn Color Using Cool Season Flowers Continue to plant cool season flowers this month such as petunias, chrysanthemums, pansies, viola, dianthus, snapdragon, alyssum, sweet […]

Gardening Tips – September 2012

Rose – New Orleans Botanical Gardens Hurricane Clean Up With the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, many of us are starting to clean up the tree limbs & debris in our […]

Gardening Tips – August 2012

Coleus Hot Summer Flowers For sunny beds or containers, choose periwinkle, melampodium, blue daze, purslane, portulaca, pentas, torenia, perennial verbena, salvias, sun-tolerant coleus, cleome, butterfly weed, hard hibiscus (mallow), salvia, […]

Gardening Tips – May 2012

Evolvulus – Blue Daze Bedding Plants for Summer Color Continue to add summer bedding plants to provide color in your landscape. Heat-tolerant plants come in a wide variety of colors […]

Gardening Tips – September 2011

Rose (Claude Monet’s Garden) Preparing Roses for Fall Blooms Rose gardens need pruning, disease management and proper fertilization now for flowering in September and October. Late summer pruning of modern […]

Gardening Tips – June 2011

Some Like it Hot – submitted by Mary Dawn Pugh Not that I’m any kind of Marilyn Monroe, but I do love hot-season gardening. Some of the best things to […]

Gardening Tips – July/August 2010

The Giant Swallowtail lays it’s eggs on Citrus trees While the high temperatures outside in July and August may not agree with us humans too well, insects are a-buzz this […]