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Louisiana Super Plants

9/13/2013

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We get asked very often about Louisiana super plants. What are they? Where to get Louisiana super plants? When to plant them? Where to plant them? Below all of these questions will be answered.

What is a Louisiana Super Plant?

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What is a Louisiana super plant? These are plants which are strong enough to handle Louisiana's climate and pretty enough for you to want them in your landscape. Candidates for the super plant program undergo two strenuous years of testing in both north and south Louisiana. They also have to be easy to grow and distribute for nurseries. They are almost always marked with the Louisiana super plants logo shown to the left.

Louisiana Super Plants List

This is a list of the current Louisiana Super Plants. New plants are added twice a year so we will try to update this list when new plants are added. If you are interested in any of the plants, click on the name to follow a link to the LSU Agcenter page for each plant. There is information on planting, sun tolerance, and planting advice.
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Camelot Foxglove
 Cool Season Flowers
  • Sorbet Violas
  • Swan Columbine
  • Rebor Kale
  • Amazon Dianthus
  • Camelot Foxglove

Warm Season Flowers
  • Little Ruby Alternanthera
  • Bandana Lantanas
  • Aphrodite Althea Hibiscus (technically a shrub)
  • Senorita Rosalita Cleome
  • Baby Wing Begonia
  • Serena Angelonia
  • Butterfly Pentas

Shrubs
  • Conversation Piece Azalea
  • Belinda's Dream Rose
  • ShiShi Gashira Camellia
  • Penny Mac Hydrangea
  • Frostproof Gardenia

Trees
  • Evergreen Sweetbay Magnolia
  • Southern Sugar Maple
  • Shoal Creek Vitex

Where to Buy Louisiana Super Plants

Most nurseries will carry at least one or two Louisiana super plants. Click on this Louisiana super plant nursery list for names, locations, and phone numbers for all registered Louisiana super plant suppliers in the state. It would be best to call before you go to make sure they have the plants in stock since they have been known to sell out.

Additional Help

GreenSeasons is always proud to offer Louisiana super plants in any of our landscape designs. If you are looking for a landscape plan that focuses on using Louisiana super plants, just click here and we will give you a call. 

If you would simply like some landscaping advice with Louisiana super plants, please contact us.  
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Knockout roses facing extinction?

4/26/2013

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Knockout roses have been around for 13 years now and we love them. In fact, knockout roses are the number one selling landscape plant in the United States. They require little care. They can handle mistreatment great. Knock out roses now come in a large variety of color. Knockout roses bloom with a vibrant show of color and have very few severe problems... until now.

knockout rose gets knocked out

You are outside admiring your landscaping when you notice something different about your knockout roses. New, long, red shoots are protruding out from your otherwise normal looking plant. The flowers have bloomed and appear gnarled. What you are looking at is the effects of the virus known as rose rosette disease. The disease will continue to spread to all other parts of the plant. The knockout rose's health will continue to degrade and it will die. 

...but wait, there's more! If that wasn't bad enough, the virus is spread by eriophyid mites. These mites are about the size of dust and simply go where ever the wind takes them. You read that right. Wherever the wind blows is exposed to the risk of rose rosette and all of their knockout roses dying. If the mites, which you can't see, land on your knockout roses and feed, they transmit the virus and your roses chance of survival drops substantially.

how to treat rose rosette

Well the short form of it is you can't treat it. Once the virus has entered the knockout rose, its there to stay. Your only chance of saving the plant is to catch it early remove the infected part of the plant by cutting well below the infected area, cutting into the healthy part of the plant. If you didn't notice the disease until it has infected the entire plant, here's what you do. Uproot the plant and dispose of it. Sorry, but there is no other options to save it.

Unfortunately, knockout roses are not exclusively the only rose the rose rosette damages. There are many other varieties susceptible to the virus so keep an eye out. All roses with the virus will display the same symptoms as the infected knockout roses. 
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