Planting Louisiana Irises at Pelican Park – Mandeville
November 23 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
The Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative (LICI) will be holding its fourth annual iris planting volunteer event at Pelican Park Recreation District #1 in St. Tammany parish, near Mandeville, La on Saturday, November 23, 2024. We’ll work from 9:00 AM until 11:00 AM or until all of the irises are planted, whichever comes first.
This volunteer event is open to the public to participate.
Please bring your own long handled shovel. The site will likely be muddy, so either wear regular rain boots or old shoes. Bottled water will be supplied. There are park bathrooms nearby to the planting site.
The irises will be planted in a rainwater detention area next to the “Gold Complex” parking lot. Stay to the right at the first intersection on the entrance road as you drive past the Castine Center. The “Gold Complex” road is located on the left side of the entrance road about half-way back to the rear of the park. (There is a sign.)
Its important that everyone that would like to participate send us an email at licisaveirises@gmail.com so that we know how many irises to bring. We’d like to try and plant as many as 400 irises if enough volunteers are coming.
Each volunteer will be asked to sign a liability waiver at the start of the event.
All help will be greatly appreciated!