Delta Flora Native Plants

Name: Delta Flora Native Plants
Address: 2710 Touro, New Orleans, LA, 70119, US
Telephone: +15042248682

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03/25/2026

We’re thrilled to host Chickadee Natives at our sale this Saturday (3/28 at Press st Gardens from 10-2!) Chickadee is only vending at a few sales this season- don’t miss the chance to come get some local-ecotype plants! Swipe thru the slides to learn more & see her plant list 👀
If you’ve bought plants from Delta Flora recently, it’s likely they sprouted from Chickadee’s seed trays! I (Caden of Delta Flora) first met Charlsie, Chickadee’s owner, when she was going on hiatus & selling off her nursery stock. I was thrilled with her selection & attention to origin, and gratefully took on most of her inventory. Since then, I’ve joined her on a few of her habitual monitoring trips- long hot days where we drove from site to site collecting seed & observations, squeaking over plants and insects.
One particularly beautiful boggy roadside on LA 434 was filled with milkwort & candyroot, with blue flower eryngo, lobelia, meadowbeauty, hypericum, american coinwort, yellow-eyed grass… That whole magical stretch was destroyed by highway expansion this past summer, bulldozed & paved over. Now, many of those populations will live on mainly in the seed Charlsie collected from them. That’s a bitter thought, but it also highlights the necessity of this work in the context of a culture that doesn’t value life or complexity.
A huge goal for Chickadee - a synthesis of all the tracking, monitoring, and careful seed collecting- is to move into producing restoration quality seed, seed that could be reintroduced (in protected places) into the same ecosystems it came from- in this case, bringing some of these beautiful plants back into nearby areas, where they form part of a much greater whole.
In a better world, this kind of restoration would be publicly funded, officially seen as urgent, essential. In ours, it’s on us to support & collaborate in this work however we can. We have the potential to make a huge impact, to care for & strengthen the web of life that cradles us.
I’m so inspired by Charlsie’s care, knowledge & the systems she’s created in service of these plants & the wealth of life that depends on them, & I’m so excited to see Chickadee grow!

05/03/2023

Come by Delta Flora this Friday or Saturday (click the link in bio to make an appointment!) and pick up some blackeyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta!)

Rudbeckia hirta’s classic flowers and fast growth make it great for establishing new gardens- it will fight w**ds, support wildlife and assuage your neighbors’ fears as your native garden consumes the lawn. It grows well in containers & makes an incredible cut flower- blooms will last forever in water and buds will open in the vase.

Blackeyed Susan grows to about 3’x3’ in part shade to full sun and can bloom from late spring til fall. It’s a larval host to two butterflies, a great source of nectar for pollinators, and the seedheads feed songbirds.
Individual plants are short-lived, sometimes annual, but they reseed reliably enough to perennialize. If you have space to let it multiply, you’ll be rewarded with a rich range of orange-to-maroon centers- a cool demonstration of genetic diversity & my favorite part of growing this plant.

It’s shown here growing by the edge of a New Orleans rain garden planted with menthol mountain mint, dog fennel, switchgrass, and texas star. I also love to combine it with yarrow, pink evening primrose and opposite-leaf spotflower.

***Rudbeckia hirta is probably not exactly indigenous to our part of the crescent, but it comes pretty close & provides a lot of ecosystem support. For this reason, I like to use it as a semi-temporary, movable filler while slower-growing perennials fill in.

04/26/2023

NURSERY APPOINTMENTS OPEN! Click the link in bio to check out our inventory & schedule an appointment :) Come browse our diverse selection of native flora & strengthen the web of our local ecosystem.

Featured flower: Gulf coast Penstemon!! Swipe to see them in different gardens & to check out a few of the other plants we have in stock.

Also called Beardtounge, Penstemon tenuis’ profuse, early spring blooms attract many pollinators & are especially important to native bees; their color ranges from lavender to violet, sometimes with reddish or vivid blue details (see photo 3). I especially love the contrast between the lavender flowers & deep red stems.

As their name suggests, gulf coast beardtongue are endemic to texas, louisiana, mississippi and arkansas- open, damp environments with alluvial soil (alluvial = made up of sand, clay and loam left by rivers, floods, etc, such as gulf coast prairies and marshes).

Will grow in full sun to partial shade. Very adaptable to different soil types, tolerant of shell & godawful construction fill; with a little extra care/ in the right spot, plants will come back strong year after year & steadily reseed to form larger stands. Since these beautiful little guys are adapted to habitats where soil is regularly replenished, they are very tolerant of disturbance, but can be crowded out by more competitive plants. This is easily prevented by giving them a little extra attention & space.

Bonus: Penstemon tenuis is an amazing confidence-boosting plant for beginners to seed propagation! Just let the seedheads dry out on the plant, then harvest when brown & brittle, crush the capsules & sprinkle on an appropriate substrate. Learn from my mistakes and seed sparingly- each dustlike speck WILL germinate into a baby whose fate will weigh on you.

Ideas for use: next to pathways, on the upper bank/berm of a rain garden, planted straight into recent sand fill, near/under deciduous or open-form trees, as part of large container plantings, as part of a lavender/ scarlet color scheme, etc etc etc. The possibilities are endless and Penstemon tenuis is compact enough to fit into any space.

11/01/2022

Happy Halloween-recovery-day from this ghostly fringe tree! She’s making an eerily out-of-season appearance to remind you that we’re taking PREORDERS for trees and shrubs- if you order now, we’ll have them ready for pickup this weekend :) And yes,fringe trees are on the list!

Just email us at [email protected] to inquire! And don’t worry, fall is the perfect time to plant in New Orleans.

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05/12/2022

Lizards Tail and Sensitive Fern are good friends.

05/11/2022

Thanks everybody who came to our sales this season!! Click the link in our bio to see the plants we still have in stock - now on sale - 30% off!
Send us a direct message or email [email protected] to arrange a purchase and pickup or delivery!

04/29/2022

Don’t forget to come by our last sale TOMORROW from 9-4 (Saturday April 30th!)

Plants pictured, all of which we have in stock: primrose & Louisiana sage glowing by our gate, obedient flower staging a takeover, beautiful pickerel w**d (perfect for wetland gardens & containers), beautyberry flowers, devil’s darning needles vine, and blue-eyed grass (we got some more for all of you who missed it last time!)

Image description: pink flowers & silvery foliage in an unruly garden at dusk- a garden cart is visible in the background.

04/27/2022

Curious about how our biodiversity packs grow in? This one was planted less than a year ago! Little plants expand! Swipe to see it then & now.

Our last sale is THIS SATURDAY (May 30th) and it’s your last chance to get one of our biopacks into the dirt- we’ve got packs & lots of choose-your-own-adventure plugs ready!

In this garden, which I was extremely happy to visit for a consult a few days ago, pale & purple coneflower, texas star hibiscus, switchgrass, rudbeckia, mountain mint, swamp sunflower, several native milkw**ds, liatris and more are all thriving together in what used to be nothing but a patchy parking spot. The plants are already beautifully established, and they’ll get stronger & flower more & attract more pollinators & support more life with every year.

There’s a lot to love about this- note the use of found materials to create a protective, architectural enclosure & the initial use of bricks to hold the mulch in place around the baby plants. Great technique. Swipe all the way to the last slide to see a beautiful, flowing permeable pathway designed and installed by the amazing ! (So much more space for native plants!!)

04/26/2022

Witchhazel and Dogfennel being soft and friendly in the woods outside Hammond.

04/10/2022

Love you, primrose. **ds

03/25/2022

We’re open tomorrow (Saturday) from 9 to 4!! Come through at 2710 Touro St & take a blue-eyed grass or two home with you! This is our last season in this location, and we’re only doing two sales this spring, so don’t miss out ;)

About blue-eyed grass (Sysirinchium angustifolium):This lovely little sign of spring is actually an iris relative & makes a great groundcover. Swipe to see growing wild in pine woods & blooming at the feet of LA Irises in a New Orleans Garden—->

Image Description: a closeup of many beautiful little blue flowers sparkling amid bright green grass-like leaves- dwarf palmetto & other wetland plants are visible behind them. In the background there’s a hoop house & bright blue sky.

2nd image: the same flower blooming more sparsely under pine trees- bright green plants are emerging all over the forest floor.

3d image: a lush clump of blue-eyed grass looking cute at the base of much larger irises with thick, blade like foliage.

See y’all tomorrow!!

03/24/2022

Hello friends! Please come check out our lovely selection of louisiana native plants this Saturday from 9-4!

This is our last season at 2710 Touro! Don’t miss this opportunity 🥰

(Oh and check out our previous post to see about our photo contest to win a store credit!)

Image description: A bunch of little red flowers bloom on a Starbush against a background of tall trees and blue sky. Text says ‘Naturalize New Orleans! Plant native plants! We’re open this Saturday!’

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2710 Touro
New Orleans, LA
70119

Telephone

+15042248682

Website

http://www.deltafloranativeplants.com/

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