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The All-America Rose Selections Display Garden at the Burden Center in Baton Rouge put on a particularly gorgeous show during the spring of 2005, said Pat Hegwood, resident coordinator. Many rose varieties have been evaluated over the years for their landscape performance characteristics and their susceptibility to black spot and other diseases troublesome to rose gardeners in Louisiana. See story. Photo by Mark Claesgens.

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Nursery Engineering
Raising plants in containers creates unique problems for nursery growers. A series of tests were undertaken to help assess the benefits of different growing techniques.
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Daylily Rust Problem Continues
In the summer of 2000, daylily rust was reported for the first time in the United States. It has since spread across most of the country and continues to present problems for home gardeners, commercial landscapers and daylily growers.
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Terrific Turfgrass for Louisiana
Turfgrasses provide functional, economic, recreational, health and safety, environmental and aesthetic benefits to Louisiana.
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Getting Rid of Plant Pests in Nurseries
The LSU AgCenter offers help to nursery owners in their continual battle against pests, especially insect pests.
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2003-04 Landscape Performance Bedding Plants and Herbaceous Perennials
Efforts in 2003 and 2004 included evaluation of cannas, coleus, angelonias, purslane, lantanas, perennial verbena, annual and perennial salvia, vinca, zinnias, melampodium, petunias, rudbeckia, phlox, daylilies, dianthus, ornamental kale, ornamental cabbage, calendula, violas, pansies, ornamental sweet potatoes, garden mums, African and French marigolds and others.
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All-American Daylillies: Performance and the Rust Threat
Interest in daylilies is still strong despite rust problems over the past several years. New daylily selections and All-American daylily winners need to be evaluated in the Gulf South for landscape performance.
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Pot-in-pot Nursery Production
Traditional pot-in-pot production in a nursery attempts to combine field and container-growing techniques and offers advantages over both production systems.
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Ornamental Gingers As Potted Landscape Plants
Ornamental gingers encompass a diverse and versatile group of plants that are gaining increased popularity in the flowering pot plant, landscape and cut flower markets. They have showy and attractive foliage and flowers, which make them interesting ornamentals.
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Fruit, Truck Experiment Station Grows into Horticulture Center
Established as the Fruit and Truck Experiment Station in January 1922, the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station has served the needs of the strawberry and vegetable industries in Southeast Louisiana for more than 80 years.
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Louisiana’s Growing Green Industry
The green industry (nursery, landscape, greenhouse, sod and allied industries) is growing in Louisiana and nationally. This growth is fueled by changes in consumer incomes and demographics. Consumers continue to allocate a portion of their increased incomes to home improvements, including their lawns and gardens.
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Master Gardeners Help Make Louisiana Beautiful
The Louisiana Master Gardener program started in Baton Rouge in 1994 and was adopted statewide in 1997. The program is offered in 20 parishes, with volunteer participation in 40 parishes.
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Burden Center: Home to Ornamental, Turfgrass Research
Five years ago, the LSU AgCenter decided to dedicate a 20-acre site at Burden Center in Baton Rouge as a home for ornamental and turfgrass research and demonstration projects. And it has flourished ever since.
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Weeds in Container Nursery Crops
Weeds compete with nursery crops for water, nutrients and light and can potentially harbor insects and diseases. They are common in all container nurseries and can cause significant losses in product quality and quantity.
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Rose Research Expands
The LSU AgCenter has long had an All-America Rose Selections Display Garden, first at the Hill Farm location on the LSU campus and now at Burden Center in Baton Rouge. Many rose varieties have been evaluated over the years.
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Horticulture in a Can: Improving Student Grades and Attitudes Toward the Environment
As a way to bring awareness to Louisiana’s vanishing coast, the Department of Horticulture in cooperation with the Louisiana Sea Grant College developed an educational program called “Coastal Roots” aimed at elementary and secondary students.
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Bracy Helps Set New Course for Hammond Research Station
Two years into her job has resident coordinator of the Hammond Research Station, Regina Bracy still considers it challenging and fun.
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Risk Management for Nursery Growers
In the nursery business, as in the rest of agriculture, uncontrollable events such as weather, changes in markets or currency valuations cause product prices to rise or tumble. The risk may be managed to a certain extent by individuals and government-sponsored programs.
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Weeds in Container Nursery Crops (Continued 2)
Additional images for "Weeds in Container Nursery Crops"
Dan Gill
LSU AgCenter helps Louisiana ‘Get It Growing’
No matter where you are in Louisiana, you can receive educational information to help you with your lawn and garden. One way we assure this is by offering a program called “Get It Growing,” featuring one of our horticulturists, Dan Gill.
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Weeds in Container Nursery Crops (Continued 1)
Additional images for "Weeds in Container Nursery Crops"
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