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Grafting 101: Behind the scenes of your fruit tree’s journey

(03/07/25) To reliably propagate the large numbers of trees needed to fulfill orders, nurseries depend on grafting — and they’re busy doing so right now.

Get It Growing: Choose the best pecan varieties to plant during cooler weather

(Video 02/17/25) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Michael Polozola about some of the best pecan varieties for our state and the best time to plant them.

Get It Growing: Don’t be hasty to remove freeze-damaged plants

(Video 02/10/25) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg advises patience before removing plants that appear to be dead after a freeze.

Get It Growing: This is a great time to plant trees

(Video 01/27/25) On this Get It Growing, discover some great small trees you can use in your yard and how to properly plant them.

Get It Growing: How to get a proper fig cutting for propagation

(Video 02/03/25) On this Get It Growing, learn how to get the best fig cuttings to propagate a healthy plant.

Get It Growing: Camellia japonica, beautiful low-maintenance shrubs

(Video 01/20/25) LSU AgCenter horticulturists Jason Stagg and Michael Polozola discuss tips for growing the camellia japonica.

Get It Growing: Pawpaw tree is native Louisiana plant with mango-like fruits

(Video 01/13/25) LSU AgCenter horticulturists Jason Stagg and Anna Timmerman discuss the pawpaw tree — a native Louisiana plant.

Get It Growing: Indoor plant care is not necessarily easy

(Video 12/26/24) On this edition of Get It Growing, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg describes some important steps for maintaining plants moved indoors.

Get It Growing: Why do some satsuma fruits look abnormal?

(Video 12/23/24) There’s a reason why some satsuma fruits look very different than others.

Get It Growing: Colorful holly fits in with Christmas

(Video 12/19/24) On this Get It Growing, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg explains some of the best holly varieties to grow in your landscape.

Get It Growing: Determining when and where to plant citrus in Louisiana

(Video 12/16/24) Citrus trees can be a great addition to your landscape.

Get It Growing: How to choose poinsettias for Christmas

(Video 12/04/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg explains how to care for your poinsettias so they last through the holidays.

Get It Growing: Fall is a good time to plant perennials

(Video 11/27/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg provides you with some good perennials to plant in your landscape now.

Get It Growing: How to select healthy trees from the nursery

(Video 11/24/24) The cooler months are the best time to plant trees in the landscape.

Get It Growing: Time to add dependable color to your cool season beds

(Video 11/17/24) With the approach of colder weather, it’s time to clean up your garden beds and prepare them for the cool season ahead.

Get It Growing: ‘Tis the time to grow herbs for the holidays

(Video 11/03/24) A summer drought is not the only time you should water your trees.

Get It Growing: It's Important to Water Your Trees Throughout the Year

(11/10/24) With cooler temperatures, it’s now time to start growing culinary herbs in your garden.

Get It Growing: Florida Sunshine anise is latest Louisiana Super Plant

(Video 10/28/24) The LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Super Plant program identifies excellent plants that look beautiful and grow well throughout Louisiana.

Get It Growing: It’s important to properly mulch trees

(Video 10/21/24) There are many reasons why it’s a good idea to mulch around your trees.

Get It Growing: Mexican bush sage blooms through fall until first frost

(Video 10/14/24) While most pollinator plants bloom during the spring, salvias keep pollinators content throughout the fall.

Get It Growing: How to remove woody vines from trees, shrubs

(Video 10/7/24) Now is a good time to get rid of different types of vines that are crawling up our trees and shrubs.

Get It Growing: How to identify some common garden weeds

(Video 9/30/24) Late summer is a great time to weed your garden beds.

Get It Growing: You can add colorful chrysanthemums before fall starts

(Video 9/23/24) Chrysanthemums are beautiful plants for the fall.

Get It Growing: Pruning roses helps make more beautiful blooms for the fall

(Video 9/9/24) Rose blooms are now waning after the long summer.

Get It Growing: Here’s how you can refresh your landscape with fall color

(Video 9/16/24) The summer heat has taken its toll on most summer plants, leaving landscapes looking worn out.

Prune roses soon to reinvigorate plants and promote fall blooms

(08/30/24) A late-summer pruning helps breathe new life into roses after months of heat.

Get It Growing: Air plants create a unique ambience for the home

(Video 08/05/24) Air plants are very unique. They don’t grow in soil like so many other plants and they can create a unique ambience for your home.

Get It Growing: You can reuse nursery containers to plant wherever you want

(Video 09/02/24) On this Get It Growing, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Will Afton explains how recycled nursery containers are just one of many options.

Get It Growing: How to properly irrigate turfgrass sod

(Video 08/26/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Will Afton explains why proper irrigation is crucial to the survival of newly applied turfgrass sod.

Get It Growing: How to prepare and apply grass sod to your lawn

(Video 08/15/24) Here are some important steps to properly prepare soil and then apply turfgrass sods into your landscape.

Get It Growing: Choosing the right turfgrass for your lawn

(Video 08/08/24) Here are some of the top grass varieties which work best in Louisiana lawns and handle warm conditions well.

Get It Growing: Ferns are fantastic for creating patio green spaces

(Video 07/29/24) Ferns are a magnificent way to add showy foliage to your patios and indoor spaces.

Get It Growing: Different methods of treating fire ants

(Video 07/22/24) Heather Kirk-Ballard talks with entomologist Aaron Ashbrook about the best ways to destroy red ants and their nests.

Get It Growing: How to handle webworms in your trees

(Video 07/15/24) Heather Kirk-Ballard and Aaron Ashbrook of the LSU AgCenter explain how to handle the problem of webworms in your trees.

Weaving worries: Fall webworm garden takeover

(06/28/24) Fall webworms are everywhere right now, weaving their unsightly webs on trees across Louisiana.

Get It Growing: Check out new colors of mandevilla

(Video 06/27/24) The mandevilla is a beautiful, summer-blooming vine that looks fabulous on patios and courtyards. And now there are more colors to choose.

Get It Growing: Florida Sunshine anise is newest Louisiana Super Plant

(Video 06/27/24) It's a good time to plant the newest Louisiana Super Plant, Florida Sunshine anise. It's a shrub that looks great in the fall landscape.

Get It Growing: Stokes’ aster is great for pollinator gardens

(Video 06/24/24) It’s Pollinator Month, and the Stokes’ aster creates lots of beautiful purple flowers to attract those pollinators.

Get It Growing: Texas star hibiscus has very big flowers

The Texas Star hibiscus grows tall while producing some very beautiful and large flowers.

Get It Growing: Century plant is unique, drought-tolerant choice for the landscape

(Video 06/05/24) The century plant, also known as American agave, is a very large drought-tolerant plant. It offers unique textures and colors to the landscape

Get It Growing: Native wild bergamot great for bees and teas

(Video 05/29/24) The wild bergamot, which is native to North America, has beautiful purple flowers. It's wonderful for attracting bees and making teas.

Get It Growing: Rudbeckia Sun Rising makes beautiful cut flowers

(Video 05/23/24) Heather Kirk-Ballard explains why the rudbeckia Sun Rising is an excellent flowering plant that will make your landscape and your flower vase

Get It Growing: Vitex are beautiful flowering trees that conquer the heat

(Video 05/16/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains how the vitex tree shows off its beautiful flowers and conquers the heat.

Get It Growing: Fall 2022 Super Plant is ornamental pepper

(09/07/2022) The LSU AgCenter has chosen ornamental peppers as the fall 2022 Super Plant.

Evolution Violet salvia is new Super Plant

(Video 05/02/16) On this edition of Get It Growing, Dan Gill introduces the Evolution Violet salvia as a Louisiana Super Plant.

Get It Growing: Zesty zinnias are Louisiana Super Plants

(Video 05/06/24) The LSU AgCenter tests plants to find out which ones are outstanding in Louisiana landscapes.

Get It Growing: Porterweed named a Louisiana Super Plant

(Video 5/13/24) The LSU AgCenter has named porterweed as a Louisiana Super Plant.

Salvias are a super selection for summer color

(05/27/22) Salvias are an excellent addition to warm-season landscapes, with a wide range of colors and sizes available.

Get It Growing: Star jasmine is a southern favorite

(Video 04/29/24) The plant known as Star jasmine or as Confederate jasmine didn’t even originate in the Southern United States.

Get It Growing: It’s time to control fire ants

(Video 04/22/24) Spring brings a seasonal resurgence to our lawns.

Get It Growing: Blue-eyed grass is great alternative to turfgrass

(Video 04/15/24) Can’t think of a plant that would work in parts of your yard where water collects?

Get It Growing: Creating your own sustainable landscapes

(Video 04/08/24) When it comes to planning your landscape, there are many choices to meet your needs.

Get It Growing: Think about perennials for adding color to your landscape

(Video 03/25/24) Spring has officially begun, so it’s time to get beautiful plants into the ground.

Get It Growing: New holly plants add colorful foliage to the landscape

(Video 04/01/24) If you think all holly plants have dark green leaves, then you are mistaken.

Just a tinge of fringe

(03/22/24) Chinese and American fringe trees add an explosion of white to the spring landscape.

Get It Growing: Cyber lime is trendy in the landscape

(Video 03/18/24) Cyber lime is a popular plant color for growers to use in the landscape.

Get It Growing: Jane Japanese magnolia is Louisiana Super Plant

(Video 03/18/24) Louisiana Super Plants are outstanding plants tested by the LSU AgCenter and shown to grow well in Louisiana.

Get It Growing: Here’s how to kill winter weeds

(Video 3/4/24) Most of our lawns are not in tip-top shape right now.

Get It Growing: Now is a good time to assess tree and shrub health

(Video 2/25/24) As we push through the end of winter toward spring, it’s a good time to evaluate how well the plants in our landscape are doing.

Get It Growing: Provide food for the birds

(Video 2/15/24) February is National Feed the Bird Month.

Get It Growing: It’s time to plant your Irish potatoes

(Video 2/12/24) There are a lot of varieties of Irish potatoes that you can grow here in Louisiana and now is a good time to plant them.

It’s spud season in Louisiana

(02/09/24) You can plant your own potatoes using cut pieces.

Get It Growing: Time to divide irises and daylilies

(Video 02/5/24) Plants like Louisiana irises and daylilies are some time away from producing beautiful blooms.

Get It Growing: Dealing with freeze-damaged landscapes

(Video 01/29/24) The freezes we experienced left many landscapes brown with tropical plants that look like they’re dead.

What to do in the garden after a freeze

(01/19/24) It’s best to wait until spring before taking any drastic action.

Get It Growing: February is best time to prune traditional roses

(Video 01/22/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains that in Louisiana, February is the best time to prune traditional rose bushes.

Get It Growing: How to protect plants from freeze damage

(Video 01/15/24) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains how to protect your plants from permanent damage caused by severe freeze conditions.

Get It Growing: Christmas cactus makes a great gift

(Video 12/18/23) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard discusses the Christmas cactus which makes a great Christmas gift.

Get It Growing: Ligularia plants keep landscapes green during winter

(Video 12/25/23) Ligularia, known as tractor seat plant, is great for filling large portions of your landscape with greenery throughout winter.

Get It Growing: New hardiness zones and what they mean for gardeners

(Video 12/11/23) The USDA recently updated its hardiness zone maps for planting.

Get It Growing: Start planting beautiful cool season bedding selections

(Video 12/4/23) Even though it’s gotten cooler, now is a great time to put some beautiful plants into your landscape.

Get It Growing: Why are those satsumas puffy?

(Video11/22/23) You may have noticed bigger than normal and misshapen satsumas on your citrus trees.

Get It Growing: Shave roots for a healthier new tree or shrub

(Video 11/15/23) Since we’ve had some rain and cooler weather, now’s a good time to plant trees and shrubs.

Get It Growing: Groundcovers can be an alternative to turfgrass in your lawn

(Video 11/1/23) The brutal droughts of this past year have played havoc with our lawns.

Get It Growing: Tough Mexican tarragon has colorful blooms, tasty leaves

(Video 10/23/23) Mexican tarragon, also called mint marigold, is an exciting plant to grow in your yard.

Get It Growing: Tropical shrub duranta is colorful in the fall

(Video 10/16/23) The tropical plant duranta is a shrub that puts on a colorful show during the fall.

Get It Growing: Dealing with saltwater and our plants

(Video 10/10/23) With drought conditions persisting, it is crucial for us to adequately water our plants to maintain their health.

Get It Growing: Using a handy tool to determine soil moisture levels

(Video 9/27/23) With drought conditions persisting, it is crucial for us to adequately water our plants to maintain their health.

Get It Growing: Attract hummingbirds with beautiful native plants

(Video 9/20/23) Everybody loves the sight of tiny hummingbirds masterfully maneuvering around a feeder.

Get It Growing: Mulches help control soil temperatures

(Video 9/13/23) With blistering heat continuing to bear down on our plants, mulches are a great way to keep moisture in the soil, while reducing temperatures.

Get It Growing: Cinnamon Girl Distylium is fall Louisiana Super Plant selection

(Video 9/6/23) If you’re looking to fill in your landscape with dependable shrubs, but you don’t want them to get too big.

Get It Growing: Typical rose care during drought can harm the plants

(Video 8/30/23) August and early September are typically times to do pruning of your ever-blooming roses.

Get It Growing: Diverse ficus plants bring nature indoors

(Video 08/16/23) Gardening in high heat is not enjoyable, so why not bring your green thumb indoors? A variety of ficus plants help bring nature indoors.

Get It Growing: Showy succulents mock the heat

(Video 08/09/23) Some drought-tolerant succulent plants not only mock the heat, but also produce showy flowers.

Get It Growing: Silver grass is a graceful-looking plant that can provide privacy

(Video 08/02/23) Silver grass is a nice border grass that can offer privacy and a graceful, refined look.

Get It Growing: Gomphrena is a beautiful, drought-tolerant plant

(Video 07/26/23) Gomphrena, also known as globe amaranth, is an excellent plant for hot and dry conditions.

Get It Growing: How to remove large dead trees from the landscape

(Video 07/19/23) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard talks with an arborist who explains how to remove large trees from your landscape.

Get It Growing: Morning glory trees have beautiful flowers and foliage

(Video 07/12/23) The morning glory tree is related to sweet potatoes, but it grows much taller and produces big vining leaves and vibrant pink flowers.

Get It Growing: Plum yew is a lush, dependable low-growing shrub

(Video 07/10/23) The plum yew is an excellent low-growing shrub that spreads out beautifully in shady beds.

Get It Growing: It’s a good time to remove freeze-damaged branches

(Video 07/03/23) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains how to remove freeze-damaged branches.

Get It Growing: How to help your container plants survive the heat

(Video 06/15/23) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains what you can do to help your container plants survive the heat.

Get It Growing: Sunshine Ligustrum are reliable shrubs with bright colors

(Video 06/21/23) Sunshine Ligustrum is a tough shrub that reliably displays bright, yellow leaves with a clean, compact look.

Modular raised-bed gardens can save your back

(Video 06/12/23) When you’re gardening, you can save your back from unnecessary bending with modular raised beds.

Black-eyed Susan is beautiful in the landscape or in a vase

(Video 06/05/23) The black-eyed Susan is a beautiful flowering plant native to North America that works well in Louisiana landscapes.

Get It Growing: Blue My Mind is 2023 summer Super Plant

(Video 05/25/23) With the heat of summer practically here, why not add some beautiful heat-loving Blue My Mind, a 2023 LSU AgCenter Louisiana Super Plant.

Get It Growing: How to grow pineapples at home

(Video 05/18/23) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains how to grow pineapples in Louisiana — on this edition of Get It Growing.

Rudbeckia is a bright, cheerful addition to gardens and landscapes

(05/12/23) Rudbeckia, a member of the daisy family, has long been a popular choice for gardeners and landscapers alike.

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