Just outside St. Alban’s Chapel, located on LSU’s campus at the corner of Highland Road Dalrymple Drive, is a new garden filled with Louisiana native plants that are already attracting butterflies and bumblebees just weeks after being planted.
This garden is also making campus history. Certified this June by the Louisiana Native Plant Society, it is the first native plant garden on LSU’s campus.
The project was led by a congregant at St. Alban’s, Emily Stich, who is a licensed landscaper and also the president of the Louisiana Native Plant Society…