• Bill Fontenot (337 852 5576) is available for design consultation for projects big and small.

• Matthew Boutte, the owner of Boutte Landscapes, is a licensed horticulturalist and native plant specialist offering landscape designs, both natural and formal, gardens for pollinators and birds, maintenance, revamp and new installations. Free quotes. 337 258 7019. bouttelandscapes@gmail.com

• Jackie Carlisi offers design and installation services in the Lafayette area. Call (337 277 0027) for a consultation!

• Steve the Native Ninja can help you if you're interested in environmentally friendly landscaping, pollinator beds, pocket prairies, and butterfly gardens (337 278 9068, native_ninja2020@yahoo.com).

• Contact Louisiana Native Seed owner Steve Nevitt at nevittii@gmail.com or visit his website (www.LouisianaNativeSeed.com) to ask questions about establishment or management of prairies, to request consultation, or to inquire about custom seed mixes.

• Katie Kogler at Let It Bee Landscaping can help with habitat creation and maintenance in yards and small prairies around Baton Rouge and Prairieville. She works closely with local native seed and plant sources to incorporate into designs that work with you and the natural world. Call (225) 284 5167 to schedule a consultation for your property.

• RouxGaroux Gardens, contact Ben Besson, 337 280 8157

• Swamp Fly Ecological Designs and Rewilding Solutions is a woman-owned environmental firm offering consultation design installation and maintenance services serving the Baton Rouge (225 610 3490) and New Orleans (584 475 4740) areas.

• Pastorek Habitats LLC, The Meadowmaker produces ecotype specific seed mixes, and designs and installs native prairie. Call or email Marc and Candi Pastorek, 504 296 8162, meadowmakers@gmail.com.

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More Native Plant sources

• Gulf Coast Flora. We specialize in the restoration of Gulf Coast ecosystems. We sell wholesale native plants from the Southeast region and South Louisiana ecotypes that are sustainably grown from remnant seed genetics. Our mission is to preserve local genetics and support southern conservation projects by providing true wild-type plants adapted to our climate. flora@gulfcoastflora.com, gulfcoastflora.com

• Beavers Abundance is a nursery in Prairieville offering native plants and permaculture services. Contact Ian Richardson at 225 610 4220.

• Gail's Native Garden, located north of Breaux Bridge, is a source for native plants. Text or call Gail for a visit or ask about current inventory 979 877 4186.

• L. J. Delcambre at Cajun Native Plants Nursery in Abbeville is specializing in native plants for sale by appointment. L. J. does offer some non-natives and will help you with your landscaping, butterfly garden, and pollinator bed designs. Call 337 256 7152 to schedule.

• Robby Maxwell at Soggy Prairie Stalks and Seeds in Iowa, LA propagates many prairie species. His list is here. Message on facebook or email robjamax@gmail.com.

• The Urban Naturalist (open 24/7, 216 Madison Street, Lafayette) for Gulf Coast penstemon (Penstemon tenuis), Tropical sage (Salvia coccinea), Indian blanket (Gaillardia pulchella), rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) and other natives.

• Baton Rouge: Clegg's Nursery and Hilltop Arboretum. Greenhand Nursery

• Almost Eden Plants (online sales only) carries more native plant species than most traditional nurseries.

• Betty and L. J. Miley at Maypop Hill Nursery Norwood, Louisiana. Open by appointment only, visit maypophill.com.

• Lastrapes Nursery in Opelousas carries a variety of native trees and shrubs including cypress, oaks, maples, magnolias, beautyberry, and Virginia sweetspire (Itea). Call at 337 948 7343 to ask about inventory.

• Eric Scallan of Scallan's Tree Company in Plaucheville has bare root and larger seedlings of native oaks, baldcypress, cedar elm, mayhaw and others. The seeds for many of his trees were collected locally! Bare root trees are available until mid March and potted trees until April. By appointment only. 318 481 1041. 198 Eric's Lane, Plaucheville LA 71362.

• Louisiana Iris Farms, LLC offers native Louisiana irises (the straight species), registered species of Louisiana irises, and Louisiana irises by color. Contact Mark Hernandez at 337.257.8809 or mark@louisianairis.com or visit the website at louisianairis.com

• Other nurseries carry some popular native plants. Ask for them! If you're finding native plants in your local garden centers, let us know! If you or someone you know has local ecotypes of native plants available for sale, email Dona Weifenbach at marshgirl64@gmail.com to see if we have space for you at our next plant sale.  

 

Learn more

• Greauxnative.org is a treasury of good information, as is Wild Ones, Audubon's Plants for Birds, http://www.bonap.org/, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Louisiana Native Plant Society and https://warcapps.usgs.gov/PlantID/.

• Want to learn to ID plants? Get on Dr. Charles Allen's email list and class schedule by emailing native@camtel.net or visit https://www.allenacresbandb.com/.

• Betty Miley has produced Putting Nature First on your Southern Land, a free online book.

• We also recommend Bill Fontenot's Native Gardening in the South (for sale at our greenhouse, at every meeting or email us at mail@greauxnative.org, or order from Bill directly, 337 852 5576)

• We recommend Douglas Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home, Nature's Best Hope and The Nature of Oaks for your library.