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From Saturday night in Tiger Stadium to golf courses, lawns, cemeteries, sod farms, airports, roadsides and parks, turfgrasses provide environmental, economic, recreational, employment, health, safety and aesthetic benefits to Louisiana.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This issue features research and extension programs conducted to help bring about economic development in the landscape and nursery industry. Two research stations featured are the Burden Center in Baton Rouge and the Hammond Research Station in Hammond. 36 pages.
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.
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.
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.
Traditional pot-in-pot production in a nursery attempts to combine field and container-growing techniques and offers advantages over both production systems.
Specialty cut flowers, or nontraditional cut flowers, have become increasingly important in agriculture. Typically, specialty cut flower growers are owners of small acreages that have the basic equipment for producing a horticultural crop.
Additional images for "Weeds in Container Nursery Crops"
Additional images for "Weeds in Container Nursery Crops"
These articles appear in the spring 2005 Louisiana Magazine.
LSU AgCenter researchers recently completed a study that shows promise for the economic feasibility of using sugarcane rind as a supplemental raw material for manufacturing oriented strand board(OSB) and similar products.
From Saturday night in Tiger Stadium to golf courses, lawns, cemeteries, sod farms, airports, roadsides and parks, turfgrasses provide environmental, economic, recreational, employment, health, safety and aesthetic benefits to Louisiana.
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.
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.
Highway construction moves a lot of dirt around, and with construction comes the potential for erosion.
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.
The LSU AgCenter offers help to nursery owners in their continual battle against pests, especially insect pests.
IOTA – Acadia Parish farmer GerardFrey figures he has cut costs and increasedproduction of crawfish by using push boatsinstead of mechanized watercraft to harvesthis crop.
Two years into her job has resident coordinator of the Hammond Research Station, Regina Bracy still considers it challenging and fun.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The best choice for shady areas where light is a limiting factor in turfgrass growth is a groundcover. Typical lawn grasses are physiologically incapable of surviving such locations. This research project explored groundcover options.
Those of us who have the privilege of being a professional horticulturist enjoy the reward of knowing that we directly touch the lives of every single citizen in Louisiana every day. The science and art of horticulture remains a dynamic influence on our lives.
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.
