Neil G. Odenwald , FASLA, is a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University and the author of, among other works, Live Oak Splendor: Gardens Along the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans and, with Charles F. Fryling, Jr., and Thomas E. Pope, Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens.

Charles F. Fryling, Jr. , ASLA, is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University.

Thomas E. Pope is the former Louisiana Cooperative Extension landscape horticulture specialist.