Home > Our Offices > Research Stations > Hammond > News > Landscape horticulture research helps 'green industry' [Image: Landscape Research] (Video 08/18/08) How do nursery and landscape operations choose many of the plants they sell? In this edition of Get It Growing, horticulturist Dan Gill explains how the LSU AgCenter provides research-based information that helps the green industry sell the best plants. (Runtime: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Hammond field day features landscape horticulture [Image: Regina Bracy at field day] (Distributed 06/18/08) Landscape professionals and consumers alike received valuable information at the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station’s second annual landscape horticulture field day on June 11. Nursery Crop Outlook - 2008 Information on economic and marketing projections for nursery/floral crop producers in Louisiana for 2008. A national outlook is also provided. Azalea Garden Established at Hammond Research Station [Image: Hammond azalea garden dedication ceremony] The LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station has established the Margie Yates Jenkins Azalea Garden in recognition of one of Tangipahoa Parish’s most widely known nursery owners.  more articles... Fruit, Truck Experiment Station Grows into Horticulture Center [Image: Master Plan - Color Rendering cropped.jpg] Established as the Fruit and Truck Experiment Station in January 1922, the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station has served the needs of the strawberry and vegetable industries in Southeast Louisiana for more than 80 years. All-American Daylily Winner For 2007 Smells Sweet [Image: daylily] Gardening enthusiasts have always enjoyed hearing about and raising All-America Rose Selections, All-America Selections (which include bedding plants, flowers and vegetables) and other award-winning landscape plants each year. One of the newer groups of winning plants is the All-American daylily.