Welcome to the LSU AgCenter Hammond Trials Web App

Centered between Louisiana's two largest metropolitan areas, the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station serves as the primary destination for nursery crop production and landscape horticulture research and extension in Louisiana. Century-old live oak trees frame acres of lush landscaping approximately 6 miles from the city of Hammond. The Hammond Research Station was initially established in 1922 as a fruit and truck crop research station; however, as time passed the station's mission was refocused to serve the green industry of Louisiana. 

Today, the Hammond Research Station has a twofold mission: 

1. Evaluating and promoting new ornamental crops for the nursery, landscape and garden center industries of Louisiana. 
2. Enhancing nursery crop production and landscape management efficiency and sustainability through research, extension and educational outreach. 

The core mission of the Hammond Research Station is fulfilled through the trials at Hammond, a program of intense evaluation on approximately 35 acres of research grounds. The ornamental trials at the Hammond Research Station are unique as plants are evaluated in a landscape setting instead of blocks or rows. However, the trials are laid out and replicated as needed to provide valuable and strong data to our trial partners locally, nationally and internationally. The four primary gardens at the Hammond station include the Allen D. Owings Sun Garden, the Margie Yates Jenkins Azalea Garden, the Piney Woods Garden and the Shade Garden, as well as many smaller gardens and evaluation areas used for the trials at Hammond.  

Our trial gardens include everything from seasonal bedding plants to woody shrubs and trees. The gardens are constantly changing with the inclusion of new trials and the culmination of existing trials. Combine that with our permanent collection and demonstration beds, and you get a wonderfully unique location that we can’t wait to share. 

This website serves as a virtual walk through our gardens, with trial results and evaluations from the current gardens and the past. We invite you to browse our website and find any information you may be interested in using. Additionally, please keep up with our blogs and updates for information on news and events associated with the Hammond Research Station and our beautiful gardens.