r/nolagardening

Hello,

Some of you will no doubt recognize this post (hi!), I'm a home grower living in Baton Rouge, LA/Zone 9a. And I heard tale that one of our FEW native nurseries, (Almost Eden) was going to be going out of business. And over the course of their careers, the owners had compiled really good information on thousands of different natives. I'm talking they had multiple pictures of each plant, dozens of growing guides, guides on how they ship online, just so so much stuff that they had created over their careers.

So with their EXPRESS permission, the owners, I used AI to trawl their website and download EVERYTHING into neatly organized Excel files. I'm talking one spreadsheet has over 10k images saved. Another has over a thousand rows of data on individual species. There's so much that I've barely even looked through it.

But I am a firm believer that we are at our STRONGEST when we share our resources and information. I hope this data will be of use to someone or some organization. And if not now, maybe in 10-20 years, provided this data is preserved in some fashion.

Also, PLEASE share this data with ANYONE you think might have use of it, if not now, perhaps in the future!

THANK YOU to Mr. Jeff McMillian and Almost Eden Plants!

LINK to Google Drive

I want to preface this by saying I’ve never had a plant in my life outside of flowers.

This spring, my husband and I purchased a home with some beautiful trees that we thought nothing of. Unbeknownst to us, these trees actually produce fruitsss

We have peaches, pecans, figs, bananas, pomelos, what I believe may be mulberries (some blackberry-looking things) and some sort of citrus .. we’re not even sure yet.

To put it plainly, we are in over our heads
We’re both full-time working professionals with kids and pets, and never imagined that maintaining fruit trees would suddenly be something we’d have to learn how to do to make sure we’re taking proper care of them. Anyone with any tips or guidance on where we should begin?