Landscape Design Essentials - Roses, Lawns, Perennials and more!

Monthly Gardening Maintenance Timeline

Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden

Mills Organic Garden Products

Rosemania (Garden Equipment, Roses, Chemicals, etc.)

Keen Grower (Gardening Advice)

Rod's Garden (Gardening Advice)

Jackson & Perkins (Buy Roses & more)

The American Rose Society

Hybridizing Roses (ARS.org)

Corine's Garden (Perennial Garden Photos and Advice)

Gardenmob.com ("For an offbeat gardening viewpoint")

LSU Extension - Home and Garden

The Weekend Gardener

Home Sweet Home - Home Inspection

Patio & Garden Decor (site under development)

Backyard Gardening (Essential Garden Guide)

Earthkind Roses - Omaha Rose Society

Northeast Louisiana Rose Society (Local News)

Annual Picnic (July 2007)

Many thanks to the Hover's for opening up their home and garden to the North-Central Louisiana Rose Societies.  Click here to view a brief video of some of their prize-winning roses.

The Rose Gazette (Issued Monthly)

   Shreveport - March 2008
  
   March 2008

   Shreveport - February 2008
   
   February 2008

   December 2007

   November 2007

   October 2007   

   August - September 2007

   July 2007

   June 2007


Rose Hybridizer and Award Winning Eddie Edwards - Watch Eddie's Presentation from November, 2007. Eddie Edwards is fast becoming famous in the world of rose growing and rose hybridization.  He has successfully created award-winning specimens that are excellent for exhibition.  Fortunately, Eddie has agreed to make the short trip over to Northeast Louisiana in November to speak to anyone interested in growing roses.  Also attending will be the owner of T-M Nursery, Jim Mills.  Jim will be bringing roses that will be for sell after Eddie's presentation.  If you're in the area and would like to attend click here and I'll provide you with more detail.  The information, roses and door prizes are sure to be a treat!

A Family Event - Kid games to play

Who has the greener thumb?  This is a "game" that can teach your child how plants grow in their most basic form.  The dad, mom and children each have a pot of same size with the same type flower seed (Zinnia's work great).  The mom or dad demonstrates how to plant their seed in the potting soil inside the pot.  Next, demonstrate how to water.  Make a simple score card with height and color and any other things you'd like to track.  Then make the event into a contest to see who's seedling sprouts first, who's seedling grows the tallest.  (Note to parents:  Show the children that by not taking care of the plant it will not survive.  Teach the bare essentials of plant growth--air, water and nutrients.)

Flower and Insect Identification Game.  This game involves making a contest out of who can name the plants in the garden and who can find and name the most insects.  The prize winner gets a flowering plant and can plant it anywhere of their choosing in the garden.  If the plant struggles explain the reasons the plant may not have performed so well.

Do you have suggestions for kid games that can help educate children about gardening?  Let me know here! I'll post them here for other parents and children to see.