Planted by Ancestors. Tended by Us. Passed On to You.

Long before Louisiana had a name, its land was already a garden. Indigenous nations tended the prairies and bayous with intention — harvesting, healing, and planting in ways that shaped every culture that followed. The Cajuns brought their prairie wisdom from the Maritimes. The Creoles wove African, Caribbean, and European plant knowledge into something entirely new. The settlers carried heirloom seeds across oceans and planted them in unfamiliar soil.

The Heritage Garden is where all of those stories live together.

These are not just plants. They are living documents — of trade routes and medicine traditions, of grandmothers and Traiteurs, of the Black Hand Stirring the Pot and the Cajun grandmother's fig tree that outlasted everything. Each one carries a lineage. Each one belongs to a larger story of Louisiana's layered, luminous culture.

Five Cultural Traditions. One Living Garden.

• 🪶 Indigenous & Native American Roots — Plants that fed, healed, and sustained the first peoples of Louisiana's prairies and bayous
• 🏡 Cajun Prairie & Food Heritage — The plants that traveled with the Acadians and took root in the Louisiana prairie
• 🌺 Creole, African & Caribbean Heritage — A rich fusion of plant traditions carried across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean
• ⚜️ European Settler Heirloom Herbs — Old World plants that crossed the ocean and found a new home in Louisiana soil
• ♻️ Dual Collection Plants — The golden thread between Heritage Garden and Healing Garden — plants that belong to both worlds

The four plants that bridge both collections — Elderberry, Maypop, Red Mulberry, and Black-Eyed Susan — are your best cross-garden companions. Find them here, and find them again in the Healing Garden, where the medicine tradition runs deep.