March 2024
Courting Royalty: Planting Milkweed for Monarchs
Read more: Courting Royalty: Planting Milkweed for MonarchsMilkweed is the sole food source for hungry monarch caterpillars, and with more than 70 native species, there are varieties that thrives in every ecoregion in the U.S. They grow in dry or wet terrain, in blazing sun or part shade, and come in shades of pink, purple, orange, green, and white.
Ask the Expert: Holistic Plant Care with Longue Vue
Read more: Ask the Expert: Holistic Plant Care with Longue VueIt can get hot in New Orleans, really hot—and really humid. Climate change can cause drought one month, followed by floods the next. Then there are insect and disease pressures, infestations of invasive plants, frequent epic storms. What’s a historic garden to do? Longue Vue, Perfect Earth Project’s newest Pathways to PRFCT partner, is trying…