On a crisp morning in February, Gary Salathe and a half-dozen volunteers tramped over a muddy plot of overgrown land in LaPlace, avoiding snakes and hunting irises. Since Salathe founded the Louisiana ...

Many area gardeners want to use more native plants in their landscapes. There are wonderful trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants native to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast that are excellent choices ...

ABBEVILLE, La. (WAFB) - Gary Salathe is on a rescue mission of sorts, walking through a backyard swamp near Abbeville. “If you’re faced with a species that could possibly be totally destroyed, that ...

Irises are a fairly easy-to-care spring-blooming perennial that offer gorgeous, colorful blooms throughout the season, depending on their variety. Though they're not too fussy about soil, all irises ...

In spots that get some shade, the new growth may emerge with a good yellow color, but over time, as the leaves mature, they ...

“Irises were my first love,” says horticulturalist Kelly D. Norris, the garden author and designer known for his “new naturalism” garden style. He started out managing his family’s iris farm and ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners will hold their annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon at the Red River Research Center, located at 262 Research Road ...

We turn off the highway and drive a couple of miles on a gravel road through the tall longleaf pines of Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest. When most people think about rock hounding and finding ...