Native plants are particularly suited to our climate, thus making them hardy and easy to grow. This makes native plants a welcomed addition to our gardens. What are some popular Louisiana native plants with ornamental appeal? Passion vine (maypop). Black-eyed Susan. Coneflowers. Hibiscus. Iris...
2001. Improving native plants to protect and preserve Louisiana's coastal marshes. Louisiana Agriculture. 44: 4-6.Harrison, S.A., Croughan, T.P., Materne, M.D., Venuto, B.C., Breiten- beck, G.A., Cohn, M.A. et al. (2001) Improving...
Louisiana Irisesare increasingly recognized as native plants well adapted to garden culture. They also make fine water garden or rain garden plants and love aquatic or bog conditions. While sometimes referred to as water irises, their only real requirement is to stay damp and not dry out. Louisi...
18. Laura Plantation Laura Plantation, located near Vacherie in Louisiana, is a historic Creole plantation with a complex and multifaceted history of the region. Named after Laura Locoul Gore, a woman of African, European, and Native American heritage who lived on the plantation, Laura Plantation...
a gift of nature A woman named Caroline Dormon spent her life trying to preserve Louisiana’s native plants and natural landscapes. And when she died a half-century ago, Dormon left… Continue Reading Caroline Dormon Louisiana Stagecoach For half a century during the mid-1800s, traveling ac...
One such school was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Sports fans may recognize Carlisle as the alma mater of Olympic hero Jim Thorpe. He was one of the lucky ones. Over their 142-year history, more than 3100 Native American children died at the Catholic-run boarding scho...
(Cajun, Creole), Spanish, French Canadian, Acadian, Saint-Domingue Creole, Native American, and West African cultures (generally the descendants of slaves stolen in the 18th century); more recent migrants include Filipinos and Vietnamese. In the postâCivil War environment, Anglo-...
Located on 400 acres of ancient pines and hardwood forest, bounded on the west by Bayou Castine, crossed by a marsh and active beaver pond - teeming with native animal and plant life - the Northlake Nature Center is St. Tammany's Secret Garden. The subtle splendor of Louisiana's wetlands...
the cultivated strawberry is largely the result of hybridization of two species native to the Americas. Of these two species,Fragaria chiloensisis found along the Pacific coast from Alaska, along the beaches of Chile to the Andean highlands. The second species,Fragaria virginianais native to meadows...
Exiled from their native homeland of Nova Scotia in 1755, the Acadians wandered aimlessly along the Atlantic seaboard for years before settling in the rich fertile soils of south Louisiana. The 6,000 Acadians who refused to swear allegiance to the British crown were punished for their disloyalty...