(10/07/24) BATON ROUGE, La. — The LSU AgCenter is once again releasing a Get It Growing calendar for 2025, giving gardeners and plant lovers a new horticulture resource with tips on gardening and sublime pictures.

The AgCenter has released a calendar since 2005, every year with new and exquisite photos of local trees, flowers and other flora, said Elma Sue McCallum, of AgCenter Communications.

“Louisiana gardeners await the arrival of the latest Get It Growing Calendar every year. The 2025 calendar has arrived and, as always, it is a wonderful resource for the home gardener,” said McCallum, who serves as the calendar’s coordinator. “It’s also a great gift for gardeners or anyone with an appreciation for beautiful photographs of flowers, plants and gardens.”

The calendar provides monthly tips that will help both the longtime gardener as well as the beginner. It includes a special section on AgCenter programs for home gardeners with advice from Heather Kirk-Ballard, a horticulturist and longtime contributor to the AgCenter Get It Growing program, a statewide educational effort in home horticulture.

Each calendar contains a list of Louisiana Super Plants, an AgCenter designation given to attractive, resilient plants that perform well in Louisiana’s climate. It also includes helpful information for projects, including when to divide caladium bulbs and watch for signs of chinch bugs and webworms.

In addition to monthly gardening tips, the full-color, 32-page, 9-by-12-inch calendar includes a guide to gardening resources from the LSU AgCenter.

Beyond just helpful gardening tips, the calendar also offers a list of AgCenter lawn and garden publications, gardening terms and definitions and information on the LSU AgCenter Louisiana Master Gardener Program, the AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Clinic and the AgCenter Soil Testing and Plant Analysis Lab.

Photographs for the calendar are chosen each year through a public call for entries. The 2025 calendar winners include Glenda Balliviero, of Belle Chase; David Gehrs, of Burnt Hills; Claudia Husseneder, of St. Gabriel; Thomas Lay, of Tickfaw; Kathleen Kuhnert, of Gonzales; Suzanne McFatter, of Lake Charles; Anna Ribbeck, of Baton Rouge; Conchita Richey, of Gonzales; Jason Saucier, of Cottonport; Vivian Shoultz, of Mandeville; Rhoda Stevenson, of Campti; Melissa Stewart, of Natchitoches; Lisa Tortorich, of River Ridge; J.C. Webb, of Crowley; Igor Kamalov, of Baton Rouge; Michael Sutton, of Mandeville.

The Get It Growing calendar sells for $13.95. It is available at garden centers statewide and online at www.LSUAgCenter.com/OnlineStore. Sample photos and more information are available on the website.

The calendar is created as part of the AgCenter’s Get It Growing educational campaign for home lawns and gardens.

The delicate pink Confederate rose flower (Hibiscus mutabilis) is captivating with its soft, enchanting hues and large, showy blooms. Photo by Glenda Balliviero.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) is a leafy green, red or white biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. Photo by Suzanne McFatter.

The cascading beauty of Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) flowers showcase their fragrant, violet-blue clusters on deciduous vines. Photo by Vivian Shoultz.

Butterfly bush, also known as senna (Senna bicapsularis), provides gorgeous yellow flowers in late summer through fall. Photo by Claudia Husseneder