More than 180 landscapers and others involved in the green diligence heard about the direction of pest and diseases during the annual Landscape Horticulture Field Day at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Oct. 4 .

The field of battle day is designed to provide the latest research - based information to landscape painting industry professionals , garden center field and wholesale nursery growers , said AgCenter horticulture researcher Yan Chen .

LSU AgCenter arborist Hallie Dozier discuss tree like to a group of landscape professionals at the annual Landscape Horticulture Field Day held at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Oct. 4 . Photo by Johnny Morgan / LSU AgCenter

“ This field of force day helps us accomplish our foreign mission , which is to make grow , evaluate and upgrade novel and adaptive ornamental and specialty crops for the nursery , landscape and garden meat diligence in Louisiana , ” Chen said .

Participants see the latest on landscape management , Louisiana Super Plants , cuss issues , and vegetable and specialty crop .

LSU AgCenter researcher Yan Chen allow for olive and tea plant information to landscape professionals at the annual Landscape Horticulture Field Day held at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Oct. 4 . photograph by Johnny Morgan / LSU AgCenter

The player began their day by touring the Dominicus garden and viewing the plants that were considered to be doing well since summer , as well as pollinator works , Chan say .

“ We set the political program up a little different this class , ” she enjoin . “ During other years , we had the medical specialist conduct turn of the garden , but this class we have more self - guided tours where the player can take their prison term to look over the gardens . ”

LSU AgCenter weed specialist Ron Strahan identifies various mourning band to landscape professionals at the one-year Landscape Horticulture Field Day held at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Oct. 4 . Photo by Johnny Morgan / LSU AgCenter

AgCenter tree surgeon Hallie Dozier speak about invasive tree in the state and how to rent an arborist during the afternoon session .

“ The takeaway from my discussion was for people to be more cognizant of what they are choosing to bring into their environment , ” Dozier said . “ Because if it ’s non - aboriginal and aggressive , it can become a problem in natural areas and can exchange our landscape in ways that we do n’t want . ”

Diane Blazek , executive director of All - America Selections and National Garden Bureau , pass her group on a circuit of the gardens as part of their annual meeting in New Orleans .

“ We have more than 80 gardens across the U.S. and Canada , ” she said . “ So we ’re visiting here for a scant clip , then we ’re head to Baton Rouge to chaffer one of the gardens at Burden where a bunch of our trials are . ”

AgCenter Plant Doctor Raj Singh gave a presentation on the discovery of citrus pestilence disease in East Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes .

“ We have confirmed the disease in a few nursery in Baton Rouge and Denham Springs , ” he said . “ We want the public to be on the lookout for trees with a yellow halo on the leaves . ”

Singh said it is not recommend to concern the plant without gloves , but to touch your AgCenter agent for a definite identification .

Singh explain that there is no cure for the disease . “ If it is confirmed , the trees will require to be destroyed . ”

LSU AgCenter “ Plant Doctor ” Raj Singh open information on the find of citrus canker disease in East Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes during the annual Landscape Horticulture Field Day concord at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Oct. 4 . Photo by Johnny Morgan / LSU AgCenter

In gain to the force field 24-hour interval , the Southeast Louisiana Nursery Association also check their annual trade show where their vendors show off their plant miscellany .

Natasha Ramsey , an enterpriser with Launch NOLA , tell she assist discipline daytime because she ’s interested in becoming more tortuous in the “ unripened manufacture . ”

Meco London , foreman for Your Happy Garden , came to get wind more about the unlike plants that mature well in New Orleans .

“ I got into the industriousness fundamentally from cutting grass , ” he said . “ I ’ve been able to advance some great cognition of the dissimilar works , so it ’s been a great experience . ”

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