Internet Directory for Botany - Gardening

NB. Horticultural Societies are listed on a separate page, as also arboreta and botanical gardens, and newsgroups related to garden plants.

• African Violets On-Line, by Stephen Gaudin, Texas, USA. Dedicated to the members of the Saintpaulia genus (Gesneriaceae) and those people who love them.
• The American Cottage Gardener, USA. A horticultural quarterly exploring the panglobal cottage gardening style from the perspective of North American climate conditions, cultivars and adaptavars.
• Arboricultural Stuff. Guidelines for Correct Pruning, by Dr. Alex Shigo, USA.
• Atlanta Garden Connection Inc., USA.
• Australian Correspondence Schools. This site contains descriptions of 232 (in May 1996) different distance learning courses, including many courses in horticulture and agriculture.
• Bamboo Resources on the Internet
• Bloemenhoek, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bloemenhoek is a Dutch nursery specializing in unusual perennials and alpine plants.
• Bonsai Clubs International
• Bonsai - puu ruukussa, Sami Poikonen, Jyväskylä, Finland. Bonsai information in Finnish.
• Books: Profits from your Herb & Flower Garden. Friday Harbor, Washington-based publisher San Juan Naturals presents three titles and a newsletter by Lee Sturdivant.
• Botanique. Links to botanical gardens and gardening sites in Canada and the USA
• British Native Flora by Helen Watford, Askham Bryan College, North Yorkshire, UK. About 10 (March 1996) British native plants with descriptions, histories and photographs.
• The Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall, UK. An Internet resource for all growers of cacti and succulent plants. It will be regularly updated with information on cactus and succulent societies and suppliers of plants, seeds and literature on cacti and succulents.
• California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc., USA. Founded in 1968, California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG) is the largest amateur fruit-growing organization in the world, with members in 48 states and U.S. territories, and 30 countries. The membership of CRFG includes many nationally recognized botanical gardens, international rare fruit enthusiasts, commercial fruit growers, and internationally recognized horticultural researchers.
• Canberra Organic Growers' Society, Australia. The Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc. is a non-profit organisation which was started in 1977 with the broad aim of providing a forum for organic growers to exchange information and encourage the broader public to adopt organic growing methods.
• The Chase-Cross Garden, a private garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Come Into My Garden by Tom H. Robb, Texas, USA; dedicated to the Master Gardener Program, contains links to worldwide gardening, horticultural and botanical sites.
• The Complete Guide to Garden Stuff by Books That Work, USA.
• The Cyber Plantsman by Barry Glick, at Sunshine Farm & Gardens, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.
• Daylily (Hemerocallis) sites:
  • The American Hemerocallis Society, USA.
  • Chattanooga Daylily Gardens, USA.
  • Chaparral Gardens. Chaparral Gardens specializes in modern hybrid daylilies. It is located atop a small ridge in the Sierra Foothills, California, USA.
  • Cultivations' Daylily Corner, USA. Specializing in Daylily Catalogs full of 50+ Pictures; Daylily Software for invoicing, customers, and inventory; easy to read Plant Labels; Web Pages, Layout Printed Catalogs etc.
  • The Daylily Exchange, USA. The purpose of this page is to provide a convenient and easy way of accessing the commercial daylily resources available on the internet.
  • Daylilies Growing Along the Information Highway, USA.
  • Daylilies Online, USA. An extensive collection of high-resolution daylily photos maintained by Nick Chase.
  • The Daylily Place, USA.
  • Hemerocallis - The Daylily by Bill Jarvis, USA. A variety of Daylily information including culture, hybridizing, using daylilies in landscaping, and pictures of named cultivars.
  • The Home Page of the Friends of the Daylilies, USA. Friends of the Daylilies is a group of American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) members who are interested in publicizing their favorite flower and its culture.
  • Ray Smith's Daylily Homepage
  • Shields' Daylily Garden, USA.
  • Some Daylilies in Judi and Paul Aucoin's Garden, USA
• Dig Magazine, USA. A Home and Garden Diversions magazine, featuring nationally known writers, the Dig Calendar, online Forums, and more.
• Dr. Razbry's Raspberry FAQ Page, USA.
• Elk Mountain Nursery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
• Epiphyllum Society of America
• Excavations at Villa Bitricci, N Italy by David Giese, University of Idaho, USA.
• FFF: FLORA-for-FAUNA homepage of Beatrix Potter, UK.
• The Garden Gate on the Prairienet, Karen Fletcher, USA. Garden Gate's World Wide Web pages offer gardeners and nature lovers links to useful and interesting sites around the world, as well as a growing collection of original materials.
• GardenNet, USA - a resource center for garden enthusiasts. - Garden Net's The Ardent Gardener - Garden Net's Guide to Internet Garden Resources
• Garden Pages, Joyce Schillen, USA. This site provides gardening tips for the home gardener along with links to additional gardening sites.
• The Garden Spider's Web, Karen Fletcher, USA.
• The GardenWeb, USA
• Gardening Web Sites by Books That Work, USA.
• The Garlic Web by Roger Coryell, USA.
• Granite State Bonsai, a nursery in New Hamsphire, USA.
• The GrowRoom, USA
• H & H Farms Nursery, Inc., Miami, Florida, USA.
• Hibiscus - Gods Own Flower, Terry Cass, Australia.
• Hydrangea Home Page from Washington, USA. Source of botanical and horticultural information on the genus Hydrangea. Sources (catalogs & nurseries), literature, societies and photographs will be maintained and updated frequently.
• Hydroponics - Inter Urban Water Farms, Riverside, California, USA.
• Hydrophonics Mailing List Homepage, Stanford, USA. Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil.
• The Horticultural Web, New Hampshire, USA.
• Horticulture in Virtual Perspective by Department of Horticulture and Crop Science The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• Horticulture Solutions, USA. The Solutions Series is designed to provide information on topics in Foods and Nutrition, Consumer and Family Economics, and Horticulture. Sources of information include the University of Illinois, United States Department of Agriculture and other land grant universities.
• How to Prune Trees, a guide by USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, USA.
• ICanGarden - Canadian Internet Gardening Resource. An extensive resource site for Canadian amateur or professional gardeners, maintained by Donna Dawson St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
• Internet Bonsai Club, USA.
• Ithaca Gardens, Ithaca, New York, USA. A regional gardening server with global appeal.
• Johnny's Selected Seeds Home Page, Albion, Maine, USA. Johnny's Selected Seeds is a mail orders supplier of vegetable, herb and flower seeds.
• Kleines Büropflanzen Lexikon, Dirk Schwarz, University of Essen, Germany.
• Leonard Holmes' Hardy Palm Information, Growing Hardy Palms, USA. Information on species of palms which are easily grown in temperate areas. Includes cultural information, tips for winter protection, sources for plants, links to other sites.
• Lepaan puutarhaoppilaitos / Lepaa Gardening School, Hattula, Finland (in Finnish).
• Master Gardener Information.Texas Agricultural Extension Service, USA - information on fruits and nuts, flowering plants, annual and perennial ornamental trees and shrubs, turf grasses, and vegetables.
• The Mirror's Garden Patch, USA.
• Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace, London, UK The world's first Museum of Garden History's WWW site is a first stop for garden enthusiasts to find out about: plants and shrubs, their history, who introduced them and where they can be obtained today, details of famous gardeners and plant hunters, gardens of various styles; where to see them and when, Garden History societies, horticultural and landscape architects, bibliographies of garden-related materials, including periodicals. Plus a Virtual Visit, the Knot Garden, details of opening times, Exhibitions, Lectures.
• The North American Plant Preservation Council, USA. The purpose of NAPCC is to establish plant collections in various places on the North American continent, so that NAPPC collections will be established in as many areas and climate zones as possible and be accessible to as many interested people as possible. These collections will be used to preserve plants in danger of disappearing forever, and for research, horticultural study, education and dissemination to interested nurseries and gardeners. Collections will be established at botanical gardens, colleges and universities, and by specialist nurseries and interested individuals.
• The Ornamental Ginger and Aroid Webpage by Timothy Chapman. Information and pictures of Zingiberales (gingers, Heliconias, etc) and also some Araceae.
• Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening, USA. This site is an attempt to gather information that is useful for gardening with Pacific Northwest native plants, and for attracting PNW native wildlife to your yard.
• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, USA. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1827, encourages and advances the art and science of horticulture. The Society provides a place where all greening enthusiasts -- novice gardeners, experienced horticulturists, and purely-for-pleasure observers -- can pursue their own particular horticultural interests.
• Perennial Plant Association. The Perennial Plant Association is dedicated to improving the perennial plant industry by providing education to enhance the production, promotion and utilization of perennial plants. Its pages are maintained in the Penn State Horticultural Trial Garden, USA.
• The Plumeria Place, John Murray, Texas, USA. Plumeria are a tropical flowering tree, sometimes called frangipani, in the plant family Apocynaceae.
• Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust, New Zealand.
• Plants for a future. A Resource and Information Centre for Edible and other useful plants. Plants for a Future is a project based in Cornwall, UK, which seeks to gather together and disseminate information on the many useful properties of plants, partularly those plants which are less common in todays society. They also have a beutiful patch of land which they are tending according to vegan-organic-permaculture principles. and concentrating on perennial plants. They have produced many leaflets as well as a catalogue of plants available from them. One major project has been the construction of a database of useful plants which contains over 7000 species (not yet avaliable over the net).
• Ralph Martin's Cacti and Succulents Page, UK.
• The Rhododendron Page, an on-line reference to the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) by Robert J. McKenzie, Tyler Arboretum.
• Rosehead Nurseries, Florida, USA. Collector and distributor of Florida-native rare, threatened, and endangered species as well as selected palm and cycad materials collected from world-wide sources.
• The Rose Gallery by S. Andrew Schulman, USA. This site contains illustrations and descriptions of numerous old and old-fashioned rose varieties, including details of scent, flower, growth and culture.
• Serra Gardens Landscape Cacti and Succulents, California, USA.
• South Cove Nursery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• The Strawberry Facts Page by Jenni A. Mott., Canada.
• The Succulent Plant Page by Richard Hodgkiss, UK.
• Southern Business Express Seed Division -- Exotic, Tropical Plant Seed Catalog, Massachusetts, USA.
• Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative, Auburn University, Alabama, USA.
• Southern Garden Gate, Florida, USA.
• Sue's Gardenlink - The Amateur Gardener's Fun Resource, USa.
• Time Life Virtual Garden, The Time Life Complete Gardener Encyclopedia Search Page, USA. This searchable database will eventually contain more than 2,000 species selected for general use in North American horticultural practice. In January 1996 it contained approximately 1,400 plants, including herbs, bulbs, house plants, wildflowers, and roses; each week another one hundred species will be added to this database.
• 'The Tropical Hibiscus: "Queen of the Tropics".
• University of Missouri Horticulture Guides, USA.
• Unofficial World Class Giant Pumpkin Homepage, USA. Information on growing giant pumpkins.
• Yahoo - Gardening.

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