Featured Native Plant Educators: The Vidrines
This month we salute Malcolm and Gail Quillman Vidrine of Eunice. They are both authors, and educators and are long time advocates for...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 71 min
Native plant of the month: American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana - October 2021
American beauty berry is a deciduous shrub naturally occurring in the understory of upland and coastal woodlands. The arching branches...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 71 min
Silver level Louisiana Certified Habitat: ANPP Congratulates Melissa and David Robinett
ANPP congratulates Melissa and David Robinett of Washington LA in St. Landry Parish for their silver level Louisiana Certified Habitat....
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 71 min
Native plant of the month: Switch grass, Panicum virgatum - September 2021
The Acadian French name for this perennial grass is Caniche or paille jaune. This attractive plant grows 3-5 feet tall and prefers moist...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 72 min
The Joy of Visiting Our Native Gardens!
By Dona Weifenbach We are in the midst of the dog days of August and it is too hot to work in the garden unless you get outside at the...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 73 min
Consider Wind Resistance When Selecting Trees for Your Landscape
by Lawrence Rozas Welcome to the Summer Doldrums of gardening. Knowledgeable gardeners forgo adding trees to their landscape this time of...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 72 min
Moncus Park Plant Survey
Final report by Dona Weifenbach ANPP members have completed work begun in March on a plant survey in the 23-acre undeveloped Ravine area...
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 73 min
Good Neighbors
by Phyllis Griffard and Kelly Guilbeau Green We've all heard it. Native plants are weedy and habitat gardens are wild and messy looking....
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Alyssa Carrier
Feb 73 min
ANPP Collaborates with Moncus Park : April 2021
by Dona Weifenbach ANPP is working with Moncus Park groundskeeper Mark Hernandez to develop a plan to identify and remove invasive...
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Alyssa Carrier
Jan 253 min
Patience, grasshopper
by Phyllis Griffard, Education and Outreach Winter came through with a vengeance last week, but nature and her plants are tough. It only...
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Alyssa Carrier
Jan 252 min
 70% is passing
by Phyllis Griffard, Education and Outreach You might be surprised, but none of us in ANPP, not even The Nature Dude himself, has a...
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Alyssa Carrier
Jan 252 min
Tis the Season: 2021 February Garden Tips
by Lawrence Rozas, President February is an ideal time for the proactive native gardener to accomplish several tasks that will pay off...
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Alyssa Carrier
Jan 254 min
To Fertilize. Or Not.
by Lawrence Rozas, President and Phyllis Griffard, Education and Outreach Native plants, which are well adapted to the local environment,...
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Alyssa Carrier
Jan 251 min
June Walker Educational Center Open January 2021
The Little White House is functional again. Over time, with lots of generous and strong folks, the little white house on the property...
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Phyllis Griffard
Jan 81 min
Book review: A Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants
After watching a webinar by Wild Ones with the authors (https://wildones.org/webinar-diboll-cox-nov-2023/), I ordered this book and am...
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Phyllis Griffard
Jan 81 min
Book Review: Finding the Mother Tree
If you're a Ted Lasso fan too, you may have caught a reference to Suzanne Simard's Mother Tree Hypothesis in season 2, when Coach Beard...
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Louise Prejean
Jan 81 min
Ring in the New Year by Celebrating a Native Oak
The oak trees in our area are enthusiastically producing acorns this year. Scientists have many theories as to the reason for mast year...
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Lawrence Rozas
Oct 4, 20232 min
Invasive Plant of the Month: Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus
by Lawrence Rozas This is the first installment of what I hope will become a regular feature of the monthly newsletter. My purpose for...
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Vilma Fernandez
Aug 20, 20232 min
Native Plant Advocate of the Month: Dr. Brandon Ballengee
Dr. Brandon Ballengee is an Artist and Biologist living in the country near Cecilia with his wife Aurore, a Sustainable food Educator and...
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