gardening

As beautiful as the weather forecast is for Louisiana today it might not be a good day at all to put your plants in the ground. Here's the reason.

Louisiana gardeners will want to get busy pruning this weekend.

Many Louisiana landscapes feature Crepe Myrtles and now a lot of those trees are losing their bark. Here's why that's happening.

This feature will keep you from stepping on a rake and smashing yourself in the face. The trouble is most of us aren't aware how to use that feature.

Yep, that's a thing. It was "founded" in Seattle back in 2005 by a couple of buddies who weren't physically fit enough to participate in the city's Naked Bike Ride.

A single item that most of us have in a toolbox or junk drawer is all you need to add to your houseplants to help revitalize them and nurse them back to health.

Louisiana gardeners need to give Old Man Winter one more weekend before they start sticking new plants in the ground.

It's officially Spring! It's time to drag out the big bag of potting soil, peruse the plant nursery and bring home a wagon full of flowers! If you're as excited about spring-time weather as I am, here's a lovely list of items to help you get into the gardening mood!

I bought my favorite flower to put in my garden and suddenly remembered what my Maw Maw preached to me as a child. "Don't you plant anything on Good Friday, Cher!" I swear she made the sign of the cross when she said it.

We were certain we had found an alien.

There nothing like the feeling of planting something and then watching it grow. I recently planted a hibiscus and I treat it like a family member. The first time it bloomed ( the one in the picture) one of those big beautiful flowers, I felt that I had actually accomplished something. The Friends of Tuten Park want to help you be a better gardener and they've set up a series of free classes that j