new orleans
fall garden show goodies
I really restrained myself from going buck wild at the Fall Garden Show at the Botanical Garden in New Orleans last weekend and only bought the things I couldn’t live without… here are the goodies!
village de l’est and dividing bromeliads
I was reading InsideOut and came across these gardening articles that I thought were interesting.
annual fall garden show and sale (New Orleans, LA)
New Orleans Botanical Garden’s Annual Fall Garden Show… dates announced.
BSI Conference 2010… in New Orleans
The Bromeliad Society International’s World Conference will be held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, LA in 2010. I know this a looong time from now, but I just realized it and I guess I am a “bromeliad nerdo” because I am way excited that they chose my city to host the shindig.
evacuation to Monroe, LA
As I am sure everyone that has a television knows, New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Gustav last week. My main concern was the storm surge that they were predicting compromising our already damaged levees and causing mass flooding, which we didn’t get… thank God. As a whole, I commend the federal, state and [...]
preparing for the worst…
This is off topic for a gardening blog, but my nerves are on end right now as I am preparing to evacuate New Orleans tenatively on Monday (Labor Day), due to the projected path of Hurricane Gustav. I just watched the local news on Bob Breck and the hurricane models are in majority that we [...]
gustav heading for nawlins?
Hurricane Gustav is currently a tropical depression near Haiti, and it will enter the gulf tomorrow and be a major hurricane when it hits the Gulf Coast over Labor Day weekend. I have a bad feeling about this. I hope for New Orleans’ sake that this hurricane moves east, but it is so hard to tell [...]
hey y’all!
My name is Jeanne and I have lived in the New Orleans, LA area my whole life. I grew up in nurseries and garden centers because my mother was a licensed horticulturalist, so I guess “green” runs through my blood. I love gardening and have a passion for tropical plants… especially orchids and bromeliads. Through [...]
