About 1,000 plants — all flowering Louisiana natives — were planted in under three hours on a recent Saturday morning along a well-traveled Baton Rouge intersection.
A crew of about 30 volunteers — working in teams of two under an overcast sky on June 20 — kept up a steady pace, with one person shoveling the spot for the plant and the other placing it in the ground.
When the work was done, two medians near the intersection of Government Street and Jefferson Highway had been transformed by plants not commonly known, like Adam’s Needle yucca plants, Leavenworth’s sedge and ornamental switch grass. White gaura and black-eyed Susans also were planted…