Learn how to protect your plants when a freeze threatens and review a list of the cold-tolerant plants commonly grown in Louisiana.

Plan to spend lots of time in your yard this month as the temperatures start to cool and we begin our most active gardening season in New Orleans.

From October 20-21, 2007, an educational experience for the home gardener and the professional takes place at the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park.

September is a transitional month for New Orleans gardens. It’s too late for warm-season annuals and too early for cool-season varieties.

An active master gardener since 1998, Charlotte Baham gardens in Algiers where she resides with her husband.

New Orleans summer gardens reach their peak in July and August with an explosion of color from warm season annuals, vines and tropicals.

don't forget to assess the success of your summer beds, which should be flourishing with summer annuals and perennials. Now is also an excellent time to observe the diverse colors, habit and duration of bloom of crape myrtles. And don't forget to pay attention to your landscape irrigation.

Apply for the Louisiana Master Gardener training program in Greater New Orleans. You must be a resident of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines or St. Bernard parish.

Learn what inspired this passionate Metairie gardener to become a Louisiana Master Gardener.

February in New Orleans for many is all about Mardi Gras, but for the gardeners among us it begins our transition from winter to spring.