Feliciana Wildflower Project & Festival

06/04/2026

YUM! We won't have any problems finding good food this Saturday at the Feliciana Wildflower Festival 2026!

💚🩷 Stop in to the The Green Door at H Mercantile! 🩷💚

06/03/2026

🦋🐛Stop by Columns of Clinton and get your butterfly garden kit while visiting the Feliciana Wildflower Festival 2026 on June 6th! 🐛🦋

Our butterfly garden kits are back in stock! 🦋

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

🦋Want to bring monarch butterflies into your classroom, garden, or youth program? Calling all teachers, homeschool educators, Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, librarians, youth leaders, and nature lovers!

Join us July 9–10 at LSU Hilltop Arboretum for a hands-on Monarch Workshop led by Monarch Teacher Network.

Learn how monarch butterflies and migration can inspire learning through science, literacy, geography, and environmental education. Participants receive classroom materials, monarch rearing supplies, and other take-home resources.

📅 July 9–10
⏰ 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
💲 $99 (lunch included)

Space is limited. Register at the link in bio or online at www.lsu.edu/hilltop

06/03/2026

New plants for the Wildflower Festival. Be sure and visit BUZNBEE and enjoy 25% off purchase price

06/03/2026

12/27/2025

As the year comes to a close, our hearts are full of gratitude for everyone who helped make the Feliciana Wildflower Festival such a beautiful success.

To our local businesses and sponsors — thank you for investing in our vision of community, conservation, and connection. Your generosity allows this festival to bloom year after year.

To our vendors, educators, and creators — thank you for sharing your talents, knowledge, and passion for nature, art, and local culture. You are the heartbeat of this festival.

To our supportive residents and visitors — thank you for celebrating with us, supporting local, and embracing the spirit of growth, beauty, and togetherness that defines the Felicianas.

And to our volunteers and organizers — thank you for your time, dedication, and love for this project. Your hard work behind the scenes makes everything possible.

We are so thankful for this incredible community and look forward to an even brighter, more vibrant year ahead. Here’s to another season of wildflowers, connection, and shared purpose.

12/11/2025

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12/11/2025

🌿🍃 1983 LNPS Newsletter Spotlight: Asimina triloba (Pawpaw) 🍃
If you’ve never heard of pawpaw, you’re in for a treat — it’s a true native gem that tastes like summer sunshine in a tree! Here are some highlights from a 1983 LNPS Newsletter:

🌱 Growing mostly in shady bottomlands, creek banks, and damp woods, pawpaw favors moist soil and filtered light. Its big leaves and clustered roots often form peaceful groves in forests across Louisiana and beyond.

🌸 In early spring, pawpaw blooms with little purple-red bell-shaped flowers. By late summer or fall, these blooms turn into soft, custard-like fruits. The flavor? Imagine a mix of banana and mango with a tropical twist, creamy, sweet, and unique to North America.

🍌🍦 Pawpaw has been called the “prairie banana” or “wild banana,” and many people scoop its ripe flesh right from the peel. Others turn it into ice cream, jams, breads, or desserts, a real taste of home and heritage.

🐛The only host plant for the Pawpaw Sphinx Moth

Because pawpaw fruit doesn’t travel or store well, it’s rare in stores, which makes finding one wild or in a local market something special.

Thinking about expanding your native garden or trying a wild treat this fall? Pawpaw’s a beautiful, flavorful, and truly local choice.

To see the original newsletter click here:
https://www.lnps.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LNPS-Newsletter-Spring-1983.pdf

To find a Pawpaw tree seller visit our plant and seed sources here:
https://www.lnps.org/resources/plant-seed-sources/

10/22/2025

🌺 A little clip of a bird's eye view of the 2025 Feliciana Wildflower Festival that was held in June this year! Be sure to come out and join us for another fantastic festival day for the 3rd annual Feliciana Wildflower Festival 2026 on June 6th, 2026! We are actively seeking vendors, sponsors volunteers and local businesses that want to partner to make this the best one yet! 🌺