Maypop Hill Nursery provides native plants and educational resources to help people garden sustainably in southern Louisiana. They offer a book, website, newsletter, and presentations on topics like native gardening, wildlife conservation, and using beneficial insects. The nursery promotes growing plants that provide food and shelter for birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators throughout the seasons. They recommend creating habitats with trees, shrubs, fruits, seeds, flowers, and grasses suited to the local climate and wildlife. Contact information is provided for the owner Betty Miley and her nursery in Norwood, Louisiana.

1. Maypop Hill Nursery
 native plants
book, Putting Nature First
on Your Southern Land
web site
online newsletter
 presentations:
Native Know-How
Gardening for Birds
Wild About Wildflowers
Plight of the Humble Bumblebee
Field Trips around Baton Rouge
Encourage Beneficial Insects
Native ladybugs, bees, dragonflies,
ant lions, lacewings, butterflies,
praying mantises, fireflies,
soldier beetles, assassin bugs,
and other useful insects
to pollinate flowers
to control pest insects
to decompose matter and
aerate soil
Create bee pastures (no insecticides)
with garden herbs and insectary
plants such as Black-eyed Susan,
Coneflower, Coreopsis, Goldenrod,
Evening Primrose, Native Mints,
Sunflower, Wild Aster, Beautyberry,
Buttonbush, Wild Plums,
Black Cherry
Betty Miley
4979 Spec Garig Road
Norwood, LA 70761
225.629.5379
web: maypophill.com
email: maypophill@gmail.com
Maypop Hill Nursery
 native plants
book, Putting Nature First
on Your Southern Land
web site
online newsletter
 presentations:
Native Know-How
Gardening for Birds
Wild About Wildflowers
Plight of the Humble Bumblebee
Field Trips around Baton Rouge
Attract Hummingbirds
Winter & all year: shelter, tree sap,
tiny insects, clean water, sugar water
Spring
Coral Honeysuckle, Blue Phlox,
Lyre-leaf Sage, Fire Pink, Indian Pink,
Coral Bells, Coral Bean/Mamou,
Carolina Jasmine Vine, Columbine,
Crossvine, Red Buckeye,
Native Azalea, Yellow Poplar Tree
Summer
Beardtongues/Penstemon, Milkweeds,
Blazing Stars/Liatris, Summer Phlox,
Iris, Indian Paintbrush, Texas Star &
other Hibiscus, Turk's Cap Mallow
Late Summer/Fall
Cardinal Flower, Jewelweed,
Beebalm/Bergamot, Horsemint,
Scarlet Sage, Trumpet Creeper
Contact: Betty Miley
4979 Spec Garig Road
Norwood, LA 70761
225.629.5379
web: maypophill.com
email: maypophill@gmail.com
Maypop Hill Nursery
 native plants
book, Putting Nature First
on Your Southern Land
web site
online newsletter
 presentations:
Native Know-How
Gardening for Birds
Wild About Wildflowers
Plight of the Humble Bumblebee
Field Trips around Baton Rouge
Native plants help
birds find
 shelter
in evergreen or thorny
trees & shrubs:
live oak, red cedar, pine,
cherry laurel, wax myrtle, holly,
hawthorn, viburnum
 year-round food
by providing fruit, seeds, insects:
black cherry, blueberry, blackberry,
Virginia creeper, muscadine grape
coneflowers, asters, sunflowers,
Partridge Pea, Sea Oats & other
native grasses
Contact: Betty Miley
4979 Spec Garig Road
Norwood, LA 70761
225.629.5379
web: maypophill.com
email: maypophill@gmail.com
 native plants
book, Putting Nature First
on Your Southern Land
web site
online newsletter
 presentations:
Native Know-How
Gardening for Birds
Wild About Wildflowers
Plight of the Humble Bumblebee
Field Trips around Baton Rouge
Grow more native
wildflowers!
1.Yellow Jessamine
(vine)
2. Coneflowers
3. Coral Honeysuckle
(vine)
4. Coreopsis/Tickseed
5. Iris
6. Phlox (Blue Phlox,
Summer Phlox,
Moss Pink)
7. Evening Primrose
8. Stokes Aster
9. Cardinal Flower
10. Sunflowers
Betty Miley
4979 Spec Garig Road
Norwood, LA 70761
225.629.5379
web: maypophill.com
email: maypophill@gmail.com