Get It Growing calendar prepares gardeners

BATON ROUGE — This 2024 LSU AgCenter Get It Growing calendar will again supply garden enthusiasts with lots of horticulture information, gardening tips and beautiful pictures.
Since 2005, the calendar has been packed with dozens of beautiful photos of Louisiana gardens and landscapes that will add beauty to your favorite wall.
The recently released LSU AgCenter Get It Growing Lawn and Garden Calendar features images of a variety of flowers, trees and other flora captured by photographers from across the state.
“The LSU AgCenter 2024 Get It Growing Calendar has arrived. Like previous calendars, it is filled with useful information for serious and beginning gardeners,” said Elma Sue McCallum of LSU AgCenter Communications, who serves as the calendar’s coordinator. “Louisiana gardeners have come to rely on the monthly gardening tips and educational features in the calendar. It highlights beautiful photographs of flowers, gardens and other plants by Louisiana photographers.”
You’ll get monthly tips that will inform the longtime gardener as well as the beginner. It also includes a special section on sustainable landscapes with advice from Heather Kirk-Ballard, the LSU AgCenter statewide consumer horticulturist and the representative of the AgCenter Get It Growing campaign.
Each calendar contains a list of Louisiana Super Plants, which highlights tough and beautiful plants that perform well in Louisiana landscapes. It also includes helpful information for projects, including when to plant caladium tubers and mulch trees.
In addition to monthly gardening tips, the full-color, 32-page, 9-by-12 calendar includes a guide to landscape conservation.
The calendar’s value increases immensely with the inclusion of a list of AgCenter lawn and garden publications, gardening terms and definitions and information on the LSU AgCenter Master Gardener Program, the AgCenter Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic and the AgCenter Soil Testing and Plant Analysis Lab.
Photographs for the calendar are chosen each year through a public call for entries.
The 2024 calendar winners include Nanette Baldwin of Gonzales, Michael Bennett of Shreveport, Caleb Boulet of Scott, Abbie Bourgeois of Schriever, Anne Donnarumma of Baton Rouge, Jared Doyle of Natchitoches, James Greer of Tioga, Terryl Hicks of Franklinton, Claudia Husseneder of St. Gabriel, Kami Hymel of Paulina, Amy Kinzie of New Orleans, Raakhee Malani of Prairieville, Suzanne McFatter of Lake Charles, Jamie Newman of Baton Rouge, Yvette Peevy of New Orleans, Anna Taylor Poe of Natchitoches, Conchita Richey of Gonzales, Rhoda Stevenson of Campti, Michael Sutton of Mandeville, Claire Sylvest of Sulphur, Lisa Tortorich of Nine Mile Point, J.C. Webb of Crowley and Emily Wolf of Lafayette.
The Get It Growing calendar sells for $13.95 and is available for online orders at www.LSUAgCenter.com/OnlineStore. Sample photos and more information are available on the website.
The calendar is created as part of the AgCenter’s Get It Growing educational campaign for home lawns and gardens. You can also find it at garden centers across Louisiana.