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Your Native Garden Calendar - January 2024
By Dan Weintritt and Friends
ANPP Volunteers
Jan 1, 20243 min read
Featured Native Plant Advocate - Janine Kharey
Janine Kharey is an experienced educator, multimedia artist, Master Naturalist, Master Gardener, and founder of Wild Ones Greater Baton ...
ANPP Volunteers
Jan 1, 20241 min read
Southern Arrowwood, Viburnum dentatum
Southern Arrowwood, Viburnum dentatum, is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub (6' - 12’ x 6' -10’) that occurs over most of the state in ...
ANPP Volunteers
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Rene Rost Middle School, Kaplan LA Lache Pas French Culture Class
ANPP congratulates Rene Rost Middle School’s Lâche Pas French Culture Class in Vermilion Parish for their bronze-level certified habitat!
ANPP Volunteers
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition) by Douglas W. Tallamy
Dr. Tallamy's most recent book guides students to gain an understanding of the crisis impacting our wildlife populations. This middle...
ANPP Volunteers
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Featured Native Plant Advocate - Matthew Boutte
ANPP is thrilled to feature Matt Boutte as this month's Native Plant Advocate.
ANPP Volunteers
Dec 1, 20232 min read
De Sha Lee - Bronze Louisiana Certified Habitat
ANPP congratulates De Sha Lee of Duson in Lafayette Parish for her Bronze level Louisiana Certified Habitat.
ANPP Volunteers
Nov 1, 20231 min read
Invasive Plant of the Month - Sawtooth Oak
Sawtooth Oak, Quercus acutissima, is a deciduous, medium size (65’ tall) tree native to Asia.
Lawrence Rozas
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Phyllis Griffard
Oct 4, 20230 min read
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...
Lawrence Rozas
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Featured Native Plant Advocates - Abbie Judice and Mark Hernandez
Abbie and Mark are advocates for native plants at Moncus Park, a 100-acre nonprofit park conservancy in midtown Lafayette.
ANPP Volunteers
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Jessica Thornton - Gold Louisiana Certified Habitat
ANPP congratulates Jessica Thornton of Rayne in Acadia Parish for the gold level Louisiana Certified Habitat on her property.
ANPP Volunteers
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Invasive Plant of the Month - Yellow Flag Iris
This is the first installment of articles to feature invasive plants of Louisiana.
Lawrence Rozas
Oct 1, 20233 min read
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...
Vilma Fernandez
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Featured Native Plant Advocate and Volunteer: Gail Evans
Featured Native Plant Advocate and Volunteer: Gail Evans Gail Evans is a passionate promoter of native plants and pollinators. After ...
Vilma Fernandez
Aug 20, 20231 min read
Featured Native Plant Advocate - Heather Warner-Finley
Congratulations and welcome to Heather Warner-Finley, an original ANPP founding member and our new president
Dona Weifenbach
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Cindy Boudreaux - Silver Louisiana Certified Habitat
In 1997, Cindy and her husband bought 11 acres which they thought was a beautiful piece of land planted with rye grass—NOT!
ANPP Volunteers
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Acadian Odyssey Memorial Park in Loreauville - Bronze Louisiana Certified Habitat
The Loreauville Acadian Odyssey Monument Park is located at 119 Bridge St., Loreauville, LA.
ANPP Volunteers
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Eustoma exaltatum, Catchfly Prairie Gentian
The first time I saw this beautiful plant was in a Cameron Parish drainage ditch between an abandoned parking lot and coastal marsh near ...
Dona Weifenbach
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Eric Vanbergen and Ascension Episcopal School
This Cajun Prairie-themed pollinator garden is a bronze-level LCH that was planted by Eric in 2019 when he was a high school student there.
ANPP Volunteers
Jul 1, 20231 min read
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