Gardening Tips – December 2012
Poinsettia display Winter Garden Tips Begin to plant tulip and hyacinth bulbs that have been refrigerated for at least 6 weeks at the end of this month and early January. […]
Gardening Tips – October 2012
Chrysanthemums Cool-Season Flowers Begin to plant cool season flowers this month such as petunias, chrysanthemums, pansies, viola, dianthus, snapdragon, alyssum, sweet peas, calendulas, forget-me-not, lobelia, cyclamen, primrose, nicotiana, ornamental cabbage […]
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 – July 2012
Rudbeckia maxima, Black-Eyed Susan Perennial Care Tall plants can shade out or fall over onto smaller plants, and some plants will spread into areas where they were not intended to […]
Gardening Tips – June 2012
Rudbeckia maxim (close-up) Hurricane Season Again Hurricane season is here again. We should examine the overall condition of our trees. Trees that have large dead branches or whole trees that […]
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 – April 2012
Irises Mulching All garden beds should be mulched with about 2 to 3 inches of material; such as chopped leaves, pine straw, pine bark, black plastic, newspaper, cardboard or other […]
Gardening Tips – March 2012
Azaleas, St. Charles Avenue Checklist for March 1. Plant warm-season bedding plants beginning in mid-March and continuing through early May. For best results, plant petunias by mid-March and wait to […]
Gardening Tips – February 2012
Baby Bok Choy February Gardening Checklist 1.Most spring flowering bulbs should have already been planted by now. 2. Remove old flowers from your cool-season bedding plants to extend blooming and […]