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Flower Gardening

Well-Tended Perennial Garden
To pinch or not to pinch is not the only question addressed here. Horticulturist DiSabato-Aust affirms that pinching is essential for plant robustness and an extended blooming season.

All America Selections Winners - Showcases new varieties of flowers, vegetables, and plants for garden performance.

At Home Garden - Articles and ideas for garden preparation, container planting, composting, and overall design.

BelleWood Gardens Gatehouse - Garden author, columnist and teacher Judy Glattstein presents some of her writings, information about classes and books, and a gardening diary.

Better Homes and Gardens: Garden Design - A collection of articles on creating gardens, mostly taking the form of short tips and tricks.

Cold Climate Gardening - Home gardener in upstate New York presents her collection of annotated links to cold-gardening resources, as well as a regularly updated garden journal.

Cousin Ricky's Gardening Notes - Notes and tips about many garden topics, including fertilizing, pest control, square foot gardening, tropicals, and watering, as well as notes on particular flowers, herbs, and vegetables.

Darren's Hortus - Describes a garden in Minnesota along with an extensive list of the plants that grow there and gardening how-to tips. Emphasis on Ranunculaceae (thalictrum & aconitum). Numerous links to images and other resources.

Dave's Garden - Maintain plants and seeds inventory, discuss gardening, and trade seeds and plants with fellow gardeners.

Digital Raingardens: Gardening Questions and Answers - Forum for general discussion of gardening questions.

Doctor Greenfingers - UK-based help and advice clinic for sick plants and amateur gardeners. Jobs to do diary, video tips, how to pages, and a light sprinkling of humor.

English Gardening - English style gardening for North America. Plant and design information advice, articles, photos, news.

Exotic Edibles - Growning plants organically and information on how to make plants safe for people and their pets.

Flower Gardening Made Easy - Tips for backyard gardeners. How to create long-blooming flower gardens, how to grow and care for annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, flowering bulbs. Garden design how-to tips, water garden, shade gardening, growing from seed and garden tools.

Fragrant Gardens - Resource and listings of fragrant plants, shrubs, and bushes. Includes recommended applications and pest control information.

Garden and Greenhouse information resource - Garden and greenhouse information including monthly greenhouse articles and tips, buyers guides, active forums and garden directory.

Garden Bed - Reviews on a range of flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs. Section for kids.

Garden Green - Features a number of short articles about various basic aspects of gardens and gardening.

Garden Guides - Information and resources in an easy-to-use format. Features articles by expert gardeners across North America.

Garden Hobbies - Offers basic information on growin and caring for vegetables, flowers and herbs.

Garden Ideas - Covers the basics common garden projects. Includes ponds and fountains, garden pests, topiary, and container gardening.

Garden Net - Garden center has links, catalogs, and information for the garden enthusiast.

Garden Power with Joe Sherinski - Home gardening and lawn care tips, landscaping ideas, a free e-magazine, contests, and answers to visitors' e-mailed questions.

Garden Pride - Information about flower and vegetable gardens, container gardening, planting, landscaping and lawn care.

Garden Resources - Provides a few articles on lawn care, garden construction and hedge maintenance, as well as PDF manuals for various garden machinery.

Garden State Gardener - Information about gardening in New Jersey. Includes general tips, advice, projects, and instruction.

Garden Stew - Discussion forums on a several gardening topics, as well as a few home improvement topics.

The Garden Watchdog - Clearinghouse for reader-supplied reviews and contact information of thousands of mail-order and internet plant sources.

The Garden Zone - Gardening portal with articles on garden topics, searchable plant database, and forums. Based in New Zealand.

GardenAdvice - Advice from horticultural specialists in plants and gardens. Feature articles, calendar and tips on gardening and garden design.

GardenBanter - A web front to several usenet newsgroups, covering general, regional, and water gardening topics. Threads are displayed forum-style. Posting requires registering with the site.

GardenBuddies.com - Forums and photo galleries covering many gardening topics, visited by an international audience. Archives of plant information.

The Gardener's Handbook - Articles on gardening, planning, herbs, composting, lawn care and organic tips.

Gardener's Paradise - Resources and information for both new and experienced gardeners.

Gardener's Path - Resource for garden enthusiasts featuring photos, garden planner, plant computer, and other tools.

Gardening123 - Offers information on a variety of gardening topics, including an extensive plant database with photo, pronunciation, and summary information for each.

The Gardening Archive - An archive of information on a variety of gardening topics.

The Gardening Guru - A horticultural archive of gardening information to help plan, maintain, and improve home gardens.

The Gardening Launch Pad - Features organized lists of gardening sites.

Gardening Places - Directory of gardening websites, including seeds, catalogs, greenhouses, tools, nurseries, flowers, vegetables, organic supplies.

Gardening Resources - Provides links to gardening sites that give information on various specialty gardening topics.

Gardening with Ciscoe - Horticulture information as provided from KIRO AM in Seattle, Washington.

Gardenlady.com - Short articles and advice about plants and gardening and home-landscaping from a professional garden speaker and writer.

Gardens On Line - Australian based gardening site offering references, plantfinder, photos, articles and community areas.

Gay Gardener - Offers planting tips, gardening history, quotes, and a monthly newsletter.

Goodwin Gardens - Gardening references featuring herbs, flowers, house plants, projects, software, and books.

The Green Line - Information on gardening, health, and nutrition from the University of Illinois Extension.

Green Web Garden - A meeting place on the web for the sharing of ideas and knowledge on gardening. Australian based.

Growit - Information resource for the wholesale nursery industry.

The Helpful Gardener: Garden Forum - A discussion forum for the home gardener. Members provide helpful answers for home gardening questions in a number of topics.

Home and Garden Information Center - Includes garden tips, home horticulture resources, and fact sheets. Produced by the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Program.

Home and Garden Information Center - Factsheets from Clemson University on a range of gardening subjects including landscape, garden and indoor plants, insects, and plant diseases.

Home and Garden Solutions - Information on lawn and garden care and pest control.

Homestead Garden - Online community focused on gardening with a simplified-living bent. Forums, a few articles, links to extension services, and printable journals and logs.

Hort Corner - Knowledge base for gardeners, from the University of Illinois Extension.

I Can Garden - Canadian gardening resource site by editor and Master Gardener, Donna Dawson. Includes a member's area, news, articles, book reviews, clubs, suppliers, pictures and links.

I Love Plants - Directory of plant and garden related topics, plus links to farmer's market lists.

Ilona's Garden Resource - General information, including articles on annuals, bulbs, and gardening tools.

Inagarden - Offers tips and articles on gardening and garden design and a plant photo gallery.

Just Gardeners - Includes forums, articles, catalog reviews, and a plant and seed swap area.

Last Resort - An index of plant and gardening databases, encyclopedias, glossaries, and dictionaries.

Lewis Gardens - Tips, information and advice on home gardening and the care of perennials. Includes a glossary and plant library.

Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project - Information on the protection of the natural area along streams with wildlife enhancement and forest stewardship.

The Magic Garden - Radio show with information and tips about flowers, trees, lawns, and plants.

A Magick Garden - Articles on gardening, planning, herbs, water gardens, garden art and tips.

Mallorn Email Lists - Lists and archives of gardening-related mailing lists.

Marilynn's Master Gardening - Offers techniques and warns of practices which cause unnecessary labor. Dedicated to work-free gardening.

Market Gardening Concepts - Bulletins and general information concerning being a market gardener.

Mimi.hu: Gardening - Provides a directory of biological and horticultural terms, with links to online encyclopedia entries for each term.

Missouri Horticulture Publications - Lists of articles covering a range of topics including fruits, plants, landscaping, and lawns.

Modern Arboriculture and Landscape Maintenance - Tree care information includes tree biology, tree and soil chemistry help, and organic tips.

The Monday Garden - Personal journal of a Connecticut gardener and outdoors enthusiast. Log entries contain extensively illustrated information on native plants, container gardening, and many other topics.

MSN Groups: Florida Gardening - Online community with forum, trading board, member photos, and links to general and local resources.

MSN Groups: Northern Gardening - Friendly meeting place for home gardeners, mostly from the Northern half of the US. Photo galleries, message board, and lots of links to gardening resources.

MyGardenGuide - Offers plant database with photos and summary information, Q&A on various garden topics, and a garden blog.

New Plant Page - Online nursery resources for new and rare plants, including cultivar checklists.

The New York Botanical Garden Continuing Education - Offers classes about plants, gardening, commercial horticulture and landscape design.

Northeast Gardener - Home gardener offers basic information about gardening in the US Northeast (zones 4-6). Lists of plants and trees.

Northern Gardening - Resources for gardeners, especially those in cold climates.

Oklahoma Gardening - Details and notes from the latest episodes of the television show.

The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardener's Companion - A collection of short gardening articles on growing herbs, fruit, vegetables, bulbs, lawns, and houseplants, dealing with pests, and weather. Also a seed swap board and forum.

Permaweb - Information and links concerning permaculture, with a UK focus.

Pioneer Thinking - Gardening - Information and tips on outdoor and indoor gardening. Many articles grouped by topic.

Plant Ideas - Information about indoor and outdoor plants. Includes care and maintenance tips.

Plantideas.com Forum Index - Series of forums on a variety of gardening topics.

Plants Toxic to Animals - Resources about toxic plants from the Veterinary Medicine Library.

Post Gazette - Discussions concerning gardening, pests, and diseases.

Purdue Landscape and Nursery Thesaurus - Information intended for professional landscape contractors and managers and commercial nursery growers in the midwest and northeast US.

Purdue University Horticulture - Horticulture page aimed the end consumer.

Rod's Garden - Gardening information, advice, and tips by an Oregon Certified Nursery Professional.

The Schundler Company - Collection of articles and resources about the horticultural uses of perlite and vermiculite.

Scott's Botanical Links - Links to informational botanical sites covering a wide range of topics.

SeeMeGarden - Community of gardening enthusiasts sharing tips, advice, experiences, and knowledge covering many aspects of gardening.

Southern Gardening - Articles and weekly news and tips on gardening in the Deep South.

1st SPOT Gardening - Web resources for gardening techniques, catalogs for gardeners, and a list of famous gardens.

Suite101.com: Gardening Community - Directory of gardening topics available at this resource site. Each topic is written by a different regular editor.

Sun Thymes Herb - Information on growing and cooking herbs, harvest times, techniques, and planting by the moon.

Susan's Garden Patch - Gardening assistance for beginners including shrubs, perennials, and indoor plants.

Tropicalesque.com - Information for those interested in creating a tropical-looking garden in colder climates. Listing with photos and descriptions of plants, including palms, bamboos, and bananas.

U.S. Frost Date Finder - Helps estimate the average date on which to expect the last frost to occur in the U.S.

The Vermiculite Home Page - Information about the uses of perlite and vermiculite in gardens, landscaping, industry, and construction.

WeGrowIt - Resource for plant enthusiasts, foresters, landscape architects, and gardeners.

Whitney Farms - Collection of garden information and resources.

Wild About Gardening - Canadian Wildlife Federation site about gardening for wildlife. Articles about attracting insects, birds, amphibians, and bats, plant selection, seasonal features, sources of native plants, and information about programs.

Wildlife Forever - Guidance and photographs on creating and maintaining a garden plot for wildlife.

Yourgarden - Gardening articles, information, forums, and humor.