Let Parkway Partners help you replace your
frozen plants or change your garden scheme.
We will be open for plant sales daily, Monday
- Friday, from 1 - 3 pm, or by appointment by
calling 620-2224. There is no 2nd Saturday in
February due to Mardi Gras and our greenhouse
is full! If we don't have it, we can order
most anything you might need, tropicals,
natives, and everywhere in between.
SAVE THE DATE! Our Annual Tree &
Plant sale is scheduled for Saturday, March
27 at the Department of Parks and Parkways.
The Department staff can offer expert advice
for your landscape needs and they have
selected time honored favorites as well as
exciting new plant and tree options. Bring
your pictures for consultation.
A hard freeze creates an exciting time of
renewal for the New Orleans landscape. Plants
may look terrible but all is not lost!
Tropicals may have a hard time returning, but
may still return given a bit of time to revive.
Examine the base of your browned and
blackened plant. If it is wet and oozing,
then it probably did not survive. Dig it out
and maybe take this time to consider a
different look. Look at it as remodeling and
renewing. If, however, the base is strong
and green under a thumbnail scratch, chances
are your plant survived and just needs
cutting back.
Our South Shore ground temperatures remained
high enough to protect most roots
underground. You can cut gingers and fleshy
tropicals off at the base now, and mulch well
over the remaining rhizome and roots to
protect them. Wait to cut woody tropicals,
trees and shrubs until March to be sure we
don't get another freeze. If you can't stand
looking at them, trim the worst part off -
knowing you'll be taking a chance with
another freeze if nice new green growth
emerges between now and March.
