1. More leaves and grass, please!  The composing station at Bloomingdale Garden is operating at 20% capacity; let’s get it up to 50% ASAP. Thanks!

    More leaves and grass, please! The composing station at Bloomingdale Garden is operating at 20% capacity; let’s get it up to 50% ASAP. Thanks!

  2. Thu26Apr2012at0448pm

    Blue Plate Artist Lofts
  3. "Happily, a steady plume of hot steam now rises from the compost pile at Bloomingdale Garden (Johnson @ Melodia), signifying progress … smells divine. Keep tossing in those bags of leaves and grass for now — we’ll get more creative after this first batch is done!"
     — Tim G.
  4. Mon23Apr2012at0654pm

  5. Light purple blossoms decorate the sidewalk along State

    Light purple blossoms decorate the sidewalk along State

  6. Thu19Apr2012at1216pm

    Visit First Cup Café!
  7. Plant-Stealing Woman Confronted

    From a Fontainebleau neighbor:
    “I live on Fontainebleau Drive in a corner house with an ever-evolving garden.  I have been having ongoing problems with someone ripping flowers off some of my plants on both sides of the sidewalk all along our property.  On Monday of this week I had been gardening for a few hours and had gone inside for a few minutes before leaving to pick up kids at school.  As I was driving away along Fontainebleau, I looked down Burdette and saw a woman bending over the ginger that’s planted in front of the backyard fence.  She was trying to break a piece off.  I drove around the block, stopped, and then confronted her as she was continuing down Burdette.  She was holding the only bloom from my lily of the nile, another very large flower stalk from another plant in the front of my house, and an armful of other flowers that probably were ripped from other yards in the neighborhood.  She is an older African American woman, slighty heavy-set, and seemed to be partially toothless.  She seemed not to understand what the problem was and said, ‘They’re for a funeral.  No hard feelings, okay?’

    I just wanted everyone to be on the lookout for her.  I’m not sure that my catching her in the act will keep her from doing it again”

  8. Wed18Apr2012at0410pm

  9. Large sunflower overlooks a thriving butterfly sanctuary at State and Walmsley

    Large sunflower overlooks a thriving butterfly sanctuary at State and Walmsley

  10. Thu12Apr2012at1039am

    Ship with the UPS Store!
  11. Easter lilies adorn this Nashville porch

    Easter lilies adorn this Nashville porch

  12. Thu12Apr2012at0939am

  13. THE URBAN CHICKEN Headlines Parkway Partners' Second Saturday Sale in April (4/14)

    This month our program will focus on the Urban Chicken. Chicken farmers Laura Reif and Frank Carter will give tips on raising chickens in the city: appropriate care; consideration for neighbors; different breeds; avoiding predators and more. At the Greenhouse: warm season vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, seasonal color.

    See you at the Greenhouse. Rain or shine.


    Second Saturday 9-noon; speaker at 10am
    1137 Baronne St, New Orleans

    620-2224 

  14. Thu12Apr2012at0922am

    Smiling Chuck's Auto Repair
  15. Bumble bee bumbling along

    Bumble bee bumbling along

  16. Wed11Apr2012at1248pm

  17. Ginger plantings generously donated to Bloomingdale Garden by the Rome family (Thanks!)

    Ginger plantings generously donated to Bloomingdale Garden by the Rome family (Thanks!)

  18. Wed11Apr2012at1203pm

    Young's Dry Cleaners - Since 1940
  19. Yellow-faced flowers shout from this raised bed on State

    Yellow-faced flowers shout from this raised bed on State

  20. Wed11Apr2012at0915am

  21. Composting Station OPEN for Business!

    Our neighborhood has a brand-new composting station, conveniently located one block off Nashville Avenue,
    at the corner of S. Johnson and Claiborne

    Let’s get it loaded up!
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    Gather up any “soft” yard waste — leaves, grass, sand, soil, 
    pine straw, etc. – then drop off bagged items as shown above.
    You are also welcome to add directly to the pile
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    Please DO NOT include any animal waste, woody stems, 
    kitchen scraps, vines, pine cones or noxious weeds.  Thanks!
    Let’s show the City that it’s better for yard waste to be 
    recycled into useful soil instead of tossed in a landfill 
    or blown into catch basins, causing clogged drains.
      - Tim G.
    P.S. Does your lawncare service leave bags curbside? 
            Let me know when, and I’ll be happy to pick ‘em up! 

  22. Tue10Apr2012at0325pm

    Give C&A Seafood a try!
  23. Lawn dragon lurks on State

    Lawn dragon lurks on State

  24. Thu05Apr2012at0658pm

  25. Mardi Gras beads decorate this fence on Calhoun

    Mardi Gras beads decorate this fence on Calhoun

  26. Thu05Apr2012at1244pm