Louisiana Growers is a wholesale nursery farm specializing in plants native to the inland Gulf South.
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...
Pollinatorsare animals that transfer pollen from one plant to another. They are essential for the production of many crops and wildflowers. The honey bee is arguably the most important, but bumblebees, solitary native bees, butterflies, moths, flies and even beetles can also serve as pollinator...
Pitcher structures in carnivorous plants come in a great variety of shapes and structures. One of my favorites isCephalotus, Australian or Albany pitcher plant, that creates low growing mounds of cute small pitchers. There are several pitcher-based carnivorous plants native to the United States with...
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 is renowned for its...
Contamination is known to alter soil properties and impact the food web from microbes to plants and inverte- brate populations and vertebrates that use the marsh for feeding and nursery areas8. These observations underscore the importance for monitoring the impact of oil spills on the health of ...
Some native trees that grow relatively fast and provide the necessary root system, however, are the willows (Salix). Unlike other trees, willows actually are woody shrubs that love water and develop deep, strong root systems in wet soil. Plants that are suitable for planting in these ar...
Two rose bushes were planted in standard nursery soil. One was watered with 1.5% slurry of CCCNSP, and the other bush was watered with pure water. After about three weeks we sacrificed the plants and determined the copper content as a function of distance from the trunk bottom using ICP. ...
Without wishing to be bound by this hypothesis, it is believed that the three-dimensional structure of the native fiber provides a framework or template for seeding the nascent nanoparticles, as well as providing the carbon that will form the shell. Semi-synthetic derivatives of native fibers can...
24. A method of introducing a desired trait into rice cultivar ‘CLL17,’ said method comprising the steps of: (a) crossing ‘CLL17’ plants as recited in claim 2 with plants of another rice line expressing the desired trait, to produce progeny plants; (b) selecting progeny plants that ...