Friday, April 20, 2018
It’s not easy to move a house. Even without overhead wires to worry about back in 1965, transporting the Morel-Nott house from its original location on Mandeville’s Lakeshore Drive to a lot about a mile to the west was treacherous.
Arts education was a vital mission of the famed artist George Rodrigue, who died in 2013.
Friday, April 20, 2018
Spring has arrived and so have multitudes of wiggly caterpillars. They are popping up everywhere and can be anything from welcomed precursor of a beautiful butterfly to a nuisance to a plant pest to a painful invader.
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Friday, April 20, 2018
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Friday, April 13, 2018
We hope you were able to join us at the Spring Garden Show last weekend. We had a wonderful time interacting with all the garden enthusiasts, and there was a lot of information for everyone.
Andrea Bland confesses to being a serial renovator, someone who just can’t keep her hands off a marvelous old house in distress. First, there was a sidehall house on Camp Street in Touro Bouligny, then a striking Gothic Revival house on Josephine …
Friday, April 13, 2018
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Friday, April 13, 2018
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When Aaron Gailmor moved from New York to New Orleans to be with his fiancée in 2015, he relocated his company headquarters, too. At first, Gailmor ran SuperEats, a plant-based, gluten-free snack company, from his apartment. But working from home …
Friday, April 13, 2018
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Friday, April 06, 2018
There’s a little bit of paradise on Bartholomew Street in Bywater, contained in an Eastlake side hall house and hidden behind a fence. The only hint from outside of what one might encounter upon entering is a bright door in the center of the fence…
Today and Sunday, April 7 and 8, the place to be is the New Orleans Spring Garden Show at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens in City Park. 2018 marks the 300th anniversary of New Orleans and the 39th annual episode of this rite of spring. It’s a ne…
Begonias are a staple of home gardens all over America, but they have an exotic back story — hailing from equatorial Asia, Africa and Latin America, where some varieties grow 12 feet tall or clamber up trees in the jungle.
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Learn how to improve drainage on your property at a Water Wise workshop Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Augustine High School cafeteria, 2800 A.P. Tureaud St., New Orleans.
Thursday, April 05, 2018
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Easter calls to mind egg hunts and baskets filled with cellophane “grass,” Heavenly Hash, jelly beans and other candies.
Friday, March 30, 2018
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There was a 1908 neoclassical temple, hiding behind a 1960s-era screen for 50 years. There was a foundation headquarters, curved in an arc. And there was a boutique hotel in Bywater with a Quonset hut as a centerpiece.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
April is a busy time for home gardeners. There's a lot to do to ensure that our gardens head into the late spring and early summer healthy and looking their best.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
“Tulips! Look at the tulips!” Elizabeth Brignac laughed as she talked about her train ride into The Netherlands’ floral heartland. Every time she saw fields of red, yellow, pink, whatever color, she said she’d point and shout to her friend, “Tulip…
Saturday, March 24, 2018
If you haven’t gotten your warm season vegetables planted yet, now is the time to get started. Soon the leafy, cool-season crops that we have been enjoying all winter will be gone, scorched away by the sun. Replace your lettuces, cabbage and kale …
If you've been caught up in the hysteria against Chinese wisteria, you are not alone.
It took Jamie Alexander a couple of years to find her next home after renovating and selling an 1810 Creole cottage on Ursulines street in the French Quarter, then an early 20th century house on Esplanade Avenue in Faubourg St. John. She was on th…
Friday, March 23, 2018
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Friday, March 16, 2018
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