Maypop Hill Newsletter for March 2024.pdfMaypop Hill
This newsletter provides updates on the plants and wildlife at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring cleanup and pruning. It notes that pruning of fruit trees and wildflowers is needed but other cleanup should wait until more pollinators are active. Recent guild plantings at the nursery include elderberry, strawberries, blackberries, and herbs to attract beneficial insects and repel pests. Recipes for elderberry remedies and dealing with fire ants are also included.
This document is a price list from Maypop Hill Nursery & Publications for January 3, 2024. It lists over 100 species of trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers and wetland plants available for purchase along with their prices. Contact and payment information is provided at the top. Prices range from $5 to $30 for most plants with some larger specimens priced higher.
This newsletter summarizes the plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and provides updates on the property. It describes how some plants fared well during the hot and dry summer of 2023 while others struggled. It also features the dog guides that escort visitors on trails and highlights native plants that provide food for wildlife, such as Calico Aster. The newsletter encourages subscribing to future free issues by email.
This newsletter summarizes plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery in Louisiana and discusses issues affecting the garden. Severe drought conditions have stressed plants and attracted destructive wildlife like wild hogs and armadillos. Solutions to deter pests include fencing, hot pepper, and commercial repellents. The drought has also reduced natural food sources for wildlife. The newsletter provides a list of native wildflowers that supply nectar for pollinators throughout the seasons and notes potential problems with milkweeds as monarch butterfly hosts.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery discusses how a late March freeze damaged blueberry and pear crops. It also describes thistles that provide food for pollinators and shows animal tracks found in wet sand. The newsletter outlines the nursery's use of permaculture zoning principles in its gardens and mentions the disappearance of insects after the installation of smart meters, which was addressed by using Faraday cages.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery provides updates on the plants and property. Winter weather damaged some plants like azaleas and fringetree by dropping temperatures to 24 degrees. A new permaculture bed is being created after removing live oaks. A cowcumber tree was planted but previous attempts did not survive. Native wildflowers like Prairie Nymph are volunteering. Events coming up are a native plant sale and community history festival with a sporting theme.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery discusses creating a garden that provides food for caterpillars and the birds that eat them. It recommends native plants that caterpillars use as hosts, such as milkweed and violets. The newsletter explains that caterpillars are an important food source for baby birds and lists trees and shrubs that attract large moth caterpillars. Pruning bushes and trees can encourage new growth that attracts more insects. The garden is also home to lizards that eat moths and rodents like chipmunks and squirrels that forage for food.
This document provides information about native wildflowers that grow in Louisiana. It discusses different types of wildflowers including butterweed, blue fall aster, horsemint, mamou/coral bean, and arrowwood viburnum. It describes reasons to grow wildflowers such as for color, beauty, attracting wildlife, and interesting shapes/textures. The document recommends considering soil, sun/shade tolerance, and availability when selecting wildflowers and provides tips on where to view wildflowers including parks, nature preserves, and wildlife management areas.
Maypop Hill Newsletter for March 2024.pdfMaypop Hill
This newsletter provides updates on the plants and wildlife at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring cleanup and pruning. It notes that pruning of fruit trees and wildflowers is needed but other cleanup should wait until more pollinators are active. Recent guild plantings at the nursery include elderberry, strawberries, blackberries, and herbs to attract beneficial insects and repel pests. Recipes for elderberry remedies and dealing with fire ants are also included.
This document is a price list from Maypop Hill Nursery & Publications for January 3, 2024. It lists over 100 species of trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers and wetland plants available for purchase along with their prices. Contact and payment information is provided at the top. Prices range from $5 to $30 for most plants with some larger specimens priced higher.
This newsletter summarizes the plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and provides updates on the property. It describes how some plants fared well during the hot and dry summer of 2023 while others struggled. It also features the dog guides that escort visitors on trails and highlights native plants that provide food for wildlife, such as Calico Aster. The newsletter encourages subscribing to future free issues by email.
This newsletter summarizes plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery in Louisiana and discusses issues affecting the garden. Severe drought conditions have stressed plants and attracted destructive wildlife like wild hogs and armadillos. Solutions to deter pests include fencing, hot pepper, and commercial repellents. The drought has also reduced natural food sources for wildlife. The newsletter provides a list of native wildflowers that supply nectar for pollinators throughout the seasons and notes potential problems with milkweeds as monarch butterfly hosts.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery discusses how a late March freeze damaged blueberry and pear crops. It also describes thistles that provide food for pollinators and shows animal tracks found in wet sand. The newsletter outlines the nursery's use of permaculture zoning principles in its gardens and mentions the disappearance of insects after the installation of smart meters, which was addressed by using Faraday cages.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery provides updates on the plants and property. Winter weather damaged some plants like azaleas and fringetree by dropping temperatures to 24 degrees. A new permaculture bed is being created after removing live oaks. A cowcumber tree was planted but previous attempts did not survive. Native wildflowers like Prairie Nymph are volunteering. Events coming up are a native plant sale and community history festival with a sporting theme.
This newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery discusses creating a garden that provides food for caterpillars and the birds that eat them. It recommends native plants that caterpillars use as hosts, such as milkweed and violets. The newsletter explains that caterpillars are an important food source for baby birds and lists trees and shrubs that attract large moth caterpillars. Pruning bushes and trees can encourage new growth that attracts more insects. The garden is also home to lizards that eat moths and rodents like chipmunks and squirrels that forage for food.
This document provides information about native wildflowers that grow in Louisiana. It discusses different types of wildflowers including butterweed, blue fall aster, horsemint, mamou/coral bean, and arrowwood viburnum. It describes reasons to grow wildflowers such as for color, beauty, attracting wildlife, and interesting shapes/textures. The document recommends considering soil, sun/shade tolerance, and availability when selecting wildflowers and provides tips on where to view wildflowers including parks, nature preserves, and wildlife management areas.
This newsletter provides updates on the gardens at Maypop Hill Nursery. It discusses goals for the 2022 garden, including adding seating and edible plants. It also describes projects to redesign and rename several planting areas, including the Yard Art Garden, Driveway (with sections for birds and deterring armadillos), and Back Deck. A walkway called Dogwood Walk leads to different dogwood species. The newsletter closes by explaining that an area once called the Pocket Prairie is now Alligator Alley after concrete reptiles were found there.
The newsletter summarizes what is growing at Maypop Hill Nursery during the winter months. While there are fewer flowers blooming, the nursery is using the downtime to catch up on reading about gardening. They discuss how Eastern Red Cedar trees produce pollen this time of year that can cause allergies. They also plant seeds for native plants like Buffalo Clover to help restore populations of bumblebees and butterflies. However, they have noticed a lack of frogs and bats on the property recently and wonder if smart meters may be negatively impacting the bats.
The newsletter provides information about the plants and wildlife at Maypop Hill Nursery in Louisiana. It recommends native plants that attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, such as Stokes aster, bergamot, coneflower, and blazing star. It also discusses the nursery's plans to participate in two upcoming garden shows to promote native plant landscaping. Wildlife sightings on the property include Carolina wrens nesting and turtles laying eggs. The overall goal of the nursery is to create low-maintenance, natural landscapes that support local biodiversity.
This newsletter provides updates on plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring gardening tasks. Native azaleas are flowering, including pink Rhododendron canescens and yellow/orange varieties. Common spring chores include dealing with vines on oakleaf hydrangea, brambles, poison ivy, and floppy spiderwort stems. A partnership in Minnesota called Blue Thumb promotes using native plants and rain gardens to improve water quality over manicured lawns. The newsletter shows various native plants at Maypop Hill including coral bean, blackeyed peas, and white wild indigo, and observes wildlife like bees, butterflies, dragonflies, and birds.
This newsletter provides updates on plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring gardening tasks. Native azaleas are flowering, including pink Rhododendron canescens and yellow/orange varieties. Common spring chores include dealing with vines on oakleaf hydrangea, brambles, poison ivy, and floppy spiderwort stems. A partnership in Minnesota called Blue Thumb promotes using native plants and rain gardens to improve water quality over manicured lawns. The newsletter shows pictures of native plants at Maypop Hill including coral bean, blackeyed peas, white wild indigo, and insects like bees on spiderwort and fireflies.
Native Know-How is a free PowerPoint slide show for individual reading or public presentations. It encourages land use which protects the environment and wildlife habitat. Th
This document is a newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery providing updates on their nursery and homestead in Norwood, Louisiana. It discusses two field trips they took in August and September to view prairie plantings. It also discusses various native plants they are growing, including ironweed, Mexican plum trees, and sunflowers. The newsletter encourages growing tall native plants that attract pollinators and provides planting dates and information for their region. It also discusses permaculture gardening methods like hugelkultur and lasagna gardening.
Maypop Hill promotes sustainable landscaping practices that protect the environment, make effective use of land, and allow for outdoor enjoyment. Some of the practices they encourage include reducing pesticides and chemicals; conserving water; encouraging biodiversity; replacing lawns with edible plants, fruit trees, and native species that provide shade, habitat, and beauty; and using eco-friendly methods like composting and mulching. Maypop Hill provides native plants, books, a newsletter, and presentations to help people learn about landscaping with nature.
Maypop Hill Nursery provides native plants and educational resources to help people garden sustainably in southern Louisiana. They offer a book, website, newsletter, and presentations on topics like native gardening, wildlife conservation, and using beneficial insects. The nursery promotes growing plants that provide food and shelter for birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators throughout the seasons. They recommend creating habitats with trees, shrubs, fruits, seeds, flowers, and grasses suited to the local climate and wildlife. Contact information is provided for the owner Betty Miley and her nursery in Norwood, Louisiana.
Maypop Hill Nursery offers native plants and educational resources about gardening with native species. The nursery sells native plants, a book on southern landscaping, hosts presentations on topics like gardening for birds and wildflowers, and leads field trips around Baton Rouge. Planting natives helps birds by providing shelter in evergreen trees and shrubs, and a food source from fruits, seeds, and insects provided by plants like oak, pine, holly, blackberry, and sunflowers.
This document promotes using native plants in landscaping to encourage beneficial insects like bees, butterflies, and ladybugs. It provides information on books, newsletters, and presentations about natural gardening. It also lists native plants that act as "bee pastures", attracting useful insects to aid with pollination and pest control while enriching the soil. Contact information is given for Betty Miley of Maypop Hill in Norwood, Louisiana, who can provide resources on natural gardening with native plants.
Maypop Hill Nursery offers native plants and educational resources about gardening with native species. The nursery sells native plants, a book on southern landscaping, hosts presentations on topics like gardening for birds and wildflowers, and leads field trips around Baton Rouge. Their website and newsletter provide information on how native plants can shelter and feed birds by offering evergreen cover, fruit, seeds and insects through trees, shrubs and flowers like live oak, wax myrtle, blackberry and coneflowers.
Maypop Hill promotes sustainable landscaping practices that protect the environment, make effective use of land, and allow for outdoor enjoyment. Some of the practices they encourage include reducing pesticides and chemicals, conserving water, encouraging biodiversity, replacing lawns with edible plants, trees, and native species to attract wildlife. They also promote using compost and mulch for gardening and reducing dependence on gas equipment. Maypop Hill provides resources like a book, website, and presentations on topics like native plants, gardening for birds, and pollinator conservation to teach people sustainable practices.
This document provides planting recommendations for vegetables by month in Louisiana. It lists which vegetables can be planted each month, including frost-sensitive plants that can be started indoors. Recommendations are from LSU AgCenter and other sources. Some vegetables that can be planted throughout much of the year include collards, kale, mustard, parsley, spinach, Swiss chard and turnips.
This document provides information about plants that can be used in winter landscaping and as edible weeds. It discusses spiderwort, cardinal flower, daisy fleabane, and lyreleaf sage as plants with winter interest due to their foliage or flowers. It also mentions using bricks, rocks, stakes and statues to protect young plants. Finally, it lists several edible winter weeds like watercress, wild onions, and curly dock and notes that thistles can be eaten after handling them carefully due to spines. It concludes by advertising upcoming gardening events in Louisiana.
The document provides a summary of gardening activities and events for each month from January to June. For January, it recommends removing problem plants like privet and cleaning tools. The February activities include fertilizing fruit trees and preparing garden areas. March tasks involve pruning shrubs after bloom and setting out warm season plants. April focuses on identifying and removing weeds and transplanting warm season plants. Events for the spring of 2016 are also listed.
This newsletter provides updates on the gardens at Maypop Hill Nursery. It discusses goals for the 2022 garden, including adding seating and edible plants. It also describes projects to redesign and rename several planting areas, including the Yard Art Garden, Driveway (with sections for birds and deterring armadillos), and Back Deck. A walkway called Dogwood Walk leads to different dogwood species. The newsletter closes by explaining that an area once called the Pocket Prairie is now Alligator Alley after concrete reptiles were found there.
The newsletter summarizes what is growing at Maypop Hill Nursery during the winter months. While there are fewer flowers blooming, the nursery is using the downtime to catch up on reading about gardening. They discuss how Eastern Red Cedar trees produce pollen this time of year that can cause allergies. They also plant seeds for native plants like Buffalo Clover to help restore populations of bumblebees and butterflies. However, they have noticed a lack of frogs and bats on the property recently and wonder if smart meters may be negatively impacting the bats.
The newsletter provides information about the plants and wildlife at Maypop Hill Nursery in Louisiana. It recommends native plants that attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, such as Stokes aster, bergamot, coneflower, and blazing star. It also discusses the nursery's plans to participate in two upcoming garden shows to promote native plant landscaping. Wildlife sightings on the property include Carolina wrens nesting and turtles laying eggs. The overall goal of the nursery is to create low-maintenance, natural landscapes that support local biodiversity.
This newsletter provides updates on plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring gardening tasks. Native azaleas are flowering, including pink Rhododendron canescens and yellow/orange varieties. Common spring chores include dealing with vines on oakleaf hydrangea, brambles, poison ivy, and floppy spiderwort stems. A partnership in Minnesota called Blue Thumb promotes using native plants and rain gardens to improve water quality over manicured lawns. The newsletter shows various native plants at Maypop Hill including coral bean, blackeyed peas, and white wild indigo, and observes wildlife like bees, butterflies, dragonflies, and birds.
This newsletter provides updates on plants growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and discusses spring gardening tasks. Native azaleas are flowering, including pink Rhododendron canescens and yellow/orange varieties. Common spring chores include dealing with vines on oakleaf hydrangea, brambles, poison ivy, and floppy spiderwort stems. A partnership in Minnesota called Blue Thumb promotes using native plants and rain gardens to improve water quality over manicured lawns. The newsletter shows pictures of native plants at Maypop Hill including coral bean, blackeyed peas, white wild indigo, and insects like bees on spiderwort and fireflies.
Native Know-How is a free PowerPoint slide show for individual reading or public presentations. It encourages land use which protects the environment and wildlife habitat. Th
This document is a newsletter from Maypop Hill Nursery providing updates on their nursery and homestead in Norwood, Louisiana. It discusses two field trips they took in August and September to view prairie plantings. It also discusses various native plants they are growing, including ironweed, Mexican plum trees, and sunflowers. The newsletter encourages growing tall native plants that attract pollinators and provides planting dates and information for their region. It also discusses permaculture gardening methods like hugelkultur and lasagna gardening.
Maypop Hill promotes sustainable landscaping practices that protect the environment, make effective use of land, and allow for outdoor enjoyment. Some of the practices they encourage include reducing pesticides and chemicals; conserving water; encouraging biodiversity; replacing lawns with edible plants, fruit trees, and native species that provide shade, habitat, and beauty; and using eco-friendly methods like composting and mulching. Maypop Hill provides native plants, books, a newsletter, and presentations to help people learn about landscaping with nature.
Maypop Hill Nursery provides native plants and educational resources to help people garden sustainably in southern Louisiana. They offer a book, website, newsletter, and presentations on topics like native gardening, wildlife conservation, and using beneficial insects. The nursery promotes growing plants that provide food and shelter for birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators throughout the seasons. They recommend creating habitats with trees, shrubs, fruits, seeds, flowers, and grasses suited to the local climate and wildlife. Contact information is provided for the owner Betty Miley and her nursery in Norwood, Louisiana.
Maypop Hill Nursery offers native plants and educational resources about gardening with native species. The nursery sells native plants, a book on southern landscaping, hosts presentations on topics like gardening for birds and wildflowers, and leads field trips around Baton Rouge. Planting natives helps birds by providing shelter in evergreen trees and shrubs, and a food source from fruits, seeds, and insects provided by plants like oak, pine, holly, blackberry, and sunflowers.
This document promotes using native plants in landscaping to encourage beneficial insects like bees, butterflies, and ladybugs. It provides information on books, newsletters, and presentations about natural gardening. It also lists native plants that act as "bee pastures", attracting useful insects to aid with pollination and pest control while enriching the soil. Contact information is given for Betty Miley of Maypop Hill in Norwood, Louisiana, who can provide resources on natural gardening with native plants.
Maypop Hill Nursery offers native plants and educational resources about gardening with native species. The nursery sells native plants, a book on southern landscaping, hosts presentations on topics like gardening for birds and wildflowers, and leads field trips around Baton Rouge. Their website and newsletter provide information on how native plants can shelter and feed birds by offering evergreen cover, fruit, seeds and insects through trees, shrubs and flowers like live oak, wax myrtle, blackberry and coneflowers.
Maypop Hill promotes sustainable landscaping practices that protect the environment, make effective use of land, and allow for outdoor enjoyment. Some of the practices they encourage include reducing pesticides and chemicals, conserving water, encouraging biodiversity, replacing lawns with edible plants, trees, and native species to attract wildlife. They also promote using compost and mulch for gardening and reducing dependence on gas equipment. Maypop Hill provides resources like a book, website, and presentations on topics like native plants, gardening for birds, and pollinator conservation to teach people sustainable practices.
This document provides planting recommendations for vegetables by month in Louisiana. It lists which vegetables can be planted each month, including frost-sensitive plants that can be started indoors. Recommendations are from LSU AgCenter and other sources. Some vegetables that can be planted throughout much of the year include collards, kale, mustard, parsley, spinach, Swiss chard and turnips.
This document provides information about plants that can be used in winter landscaping and as edible weeds. It discusses spiderwort, cardinal flower, daisy fleabane, and lyreleaf sage as plants with winter interest due to their foliage or flowers. It also mentions using bricks, rocks, stakes and statues to protect young plants. Finally, it lists several edible winter weeds like watercress, wild onions, and curly dock and notes that thistles can be eaten after handling them carefully due to spines. It concludes by advertising upcoming gardening events in Louisiana.
The document provides a summary of gardening activities and events for each month from January to June. For January, it recommends removing problem plants like privet and cleaning tools. The February activities include fertilizing fruit trees and preparing garden areas. March tasks involve pruning shrubs after bloom and setting out warm season plants. April focuses on identifying and removing weeds and transplanting warm season plants. Events for the spring of 2016 are also listed.
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An occasional report of what’s growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and the Miley homestead in
An occasional report of what’s growing at Maypop Hill Nursery and the Miley homestead in
Norwood, LA; to subscribe to the free newsletter, contact us by email:
Norwood, LA; to subscribe to the free newsletter, contact us by email: maypophill@gmail.com
maypophill@gmail.com.
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The Maypop Hill
The Maypop Hill
Newsletter
Newsletter
July 2022
July 2022
Have you ever wanted
to identify a plant but no
botanists were standing
next to you?
Here are 3 free apps
that let you upload a
photo to discover
possible answers:
PlantNet
iNaturalist
PlantSnap
Photos
courtesy
of
Michael
Glaspell
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The BREC garden on Independence Boulevard in Baton Rouge was pretty as a picture
in late June. An especially handsome planting was full of tropical milkweed
(Asclepias curassavica). Orange butterflies, Monarchs and Gulf Fritillaries,
were flitting around the plants, as well as flying up to nectar on Coral Honeysuckle vines
growing on the tall trellis arches.
Tropical milkweed, unfortunately, can become toxic to Monarch caterpillars when they eat
leaves infected with a deadly pasastiic microorganism, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha,
or OE. For more information about OE and which milkweeds are safe for Monarchs,
click on https://xerces.org/blog/tropical-milkweed-a-no-grow
What milkweeds are beneficial to Monarchs?
for dry soil, the native Butterflyweed
(Asclepias tuberosa)
For wet to average soils, Swamp
Milkweed (Asclepias perennis)
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Patent pending:
the Maypop Hill
Weeding Chair,
with umbrella and
battery-powered fan
What plants have
survived our sub-tropical
temps, droughts, heavy
rainfall,a lazy gardener
with a sore back
?
So far:
muscadine grapes,
strawberries,
sugar cane, tomatoes,
bell pepper, eggplant,
python beans,
Jerusalem artichoke
(actually a sunflower).
Might maybe add:
perennial spinach, some
recommendations from an
LSU publication →
Year-Round Leafy Green
Production
Finally! It’s
about time. The
pineapple pear
decided it
would make
fruit this year.
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Maypop Hill Nursery & Publications
4979 Spec Garig Rd., Norwood, LA
Betty & LJ Miley, specializing in native plants of the South
email: maypophill@gmail.com web: maypophill.com Geaux native!
The Baton Rouge Botanic Garden Summer plant sale is scheduled for
Saturday,August 13, from 8AM to 12 Noon;
Maypop Hill is planning to attend, rain or shine.
It seemed like a good idea to repurpose an
old BBQ grill into a seed planting stand
outside the kitchen window. But seedlings
kept disappearing. hmm
A shady native rock garden
needs little weeding.
Hole-y ground? A chipmunk left behind a piece of
pear before ducking into his tunnel.
Tiny holes by the barn may be where bees be.
If yellow jackets lived there, we would know it!
hay hay, we have a lot of old hay and grass
clippings. It makes an excellent border to
neaten up a bed of volunteer wildflowers.