Students spend more time planning prom than college finances This prom season high school girls will spend weeks struggling to find the perfect dress – will it be gold metallic, ravishing red, bright white or the hottest color? The dress is just the beginnin...
SunPatiens offer season-long performance If you like the flowering habit of shade-loving impatiens, you’ll be excited to know that a new type of impatiens is on the market that will thrive in our Louisiana summer heat and humidity – SunPa...
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Container, newly planted plants need special watering care Lots of new planting gets done every spring. Proper watering can make the difference between life and death to newly planted lawns, trees, shrubs and ground covers as well as bedding and vegetable ...
May 03, 2013 | 0 | 0 |
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ZHS Agriscience Class to hold Mother's Day plant sale The advanced Agriscience classes at Zachary High School have grown plants for a Mother's Day Plant Sale next week, May 8-11.
Prices will be reduced for students and teachers.
The sale will run next...
Plan summer flower gardens now May is here and we transition from the warm days and cool nights of spring and early summer to the hot days and warm nights that will be with us until September.
With the increasing heat, you shoul...
May 01, 2013 | 0 | 2 |
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Bird problems frustrate La. rice farmers Southwest Louisiana farmers are frustrated this year with a larger-than-usual number of birds eating rice seed, causing many farmers to replant.
In addition to the expense of replanting, farmers ar...
Vitex provides late spring, summer flowers One of the nicest small, flowering trees for Louisiana landscapes is the chaste tree or vitex (Vitex agnus-castus). Midspring through early summer is the main time for flowering on this increasingl...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 | 1 |
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Marsh insect numbers continue to decline after 2010 oil spill The day after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig – April 21, 2010 – Linda Hooper-Bui, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, had a graduate student sampling insect populations in the marshes of ...
Bandana lantanas are Louisiana Super Plants Lantana (Lantana camara) is one of the first flowers I became aware of as a young child in Chalmette. After all, who could resist a plant so perfectly named with the common name “ham and eggs”?
The...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 | 1 |
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Local students take class on the farm Many area students who know little about where their food comes from received a lesson complete with live farm animals when they attended Farm Day at the LSU AgCenter dairy on April 18-19.
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Lantanas offer summer color; Bandana named Louisiana Super Plant Lantanas continue to be one of the most popular herbaceous perennials for Louisiana landscapes. Many varieties, some old and some new, offer a multitude of growth forms and flower colors. Lantanas ...
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 | 1 |
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