Subject: Internet Directory for Botany: Gardening

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 22:21:42 -0400

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INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY: GARDENING

Original location of this page: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/bothort.html
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.
African Violet World by Richard Trout, USA. African Violet World discusses the world's favourite house plant (Saintpaulia, Gesneriaceae), including the African Violet FAQ, archives of the gesneriphiles e-mail mailing list and on-line newsletters from African Violet societies around the world.
The American Begonia Society Pages, USA. The American Begonia Society pages provide current information on the growing culture of Begonias and on the American Begonia Society. Several linked pages covering a wide range of topics and information concerning the growing, conservation, and types of begonias and all aspects of the American Begonia Society.
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.
Annual Flower Garden of Seppo Vesterinen, Finland. Garden encyclopedia of annual flowers, bedding plants and tender perennials grown as half hardy annuals in the north. Species descriptions, varieties, history, sources, flower name dictionary.
Atlanta Garden Connection Inc., USA.
Australian Correspondence Schools: Gardening and Horticulture. 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 - A Specialised Nursery, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bloemenhoek is a Dutch nursery specializing in unusual perennials and alpine plants.
Bonsai Clubs International
The Bonsai Primer, UK. A guide to the creation and care of bonsai.
Bonsai - puu ruukussa, Sami Poikonen, Jyväskylä, Finland. Bonsai information in Finnish.
Bonsai Web, USA
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.
Clupper's Organic Gardens, Kingman, Arizona, USA
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 Growing Along the Information Highway is brought to you by a supporter of Friends of the Daylilies--a group of American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) members.
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.
Home Page for the Friends of the Daylilies, USA. Hemerocallis information by Friends of the Daylilies - a group of American Hemerocallis Society members.
Ray Smith's Daylily Homepage
Shields' Daylily Garden, USA.
Some Daylilies in Judi and Paul Aucoin's Garden, USA

Dig Magazine - Home and Garden, USA. A Home and Garden Diversions magazine, featuring nationally known writers, the Dig Calendar, online Forums, and more.
Dowdeswells Delphiniums, New Zealand. Delphiniums grown and bred in New Zealand with cultural information and details of common pests and diseases.
Elk Mountain Nursery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Excavations at Villa Bitricci, N Italy by David Giese, University of Idaho, USA.
FFF: FLORA-for-FAUNA homepage
Fleurs, Plantes, Jardins - la revue francophone du jardinage, Quebec, Canada
Florafest Orchids Australia. One of Australia's oldest & largest commercial orchid nurseries, with Australian native and exotic orchids. Here you can find hundreds of images, numerous articles and culture notes on all orchid genera including unique Australian species & the latest hybrids.
Fruits and Vegetables Market Prices by Today's Market
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.
The Gardening Archive at the Lysator www site in Sweden has an emphasis on plants suitable for a temperate or cold temperate climate.
Gardening Unlimited!
Gardening at Telpering Productions. Especially Iris information and links.
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.
Gardens and Landscapes, UK. The site covers Gardens and Landscapes including plants, garden design and landscaping. It is international in scope with a slight bias towards the UK. This site is maintained by Aldex Sofware on a non-commercial basis. The site includes various software developed by Aldex Software, a software house specialising in landscape and horticultural software and including : Plant Selector Plant Selector Professional Garden Designer Professional LandCalc (calculates areas/volumes/ etc by tracing maps or plans) LandMate (Landscape estimating package) LandMan (Comprehensive Landscape management) and various other horticulture related software.
Garden Site Directory, USA
The Garden Spider's Web, Karen Fletcher, USA.
The GardenWeb, USA
Granite State Bonsai, a nursery in New Hamsphire, USA
The GrowRoom, USA
Hardy Fern Foundation, USA. HDF is a non-profit, membership organization established to provide a comprehensive collection of the world's hardy ferns for display, testing, evaluation, public education and introduction to the gardening and horticultural community.
Hibiscus - Gods Own Flower, Terry Cass, Australia.
Homegrown Hydroponics. "Information on everything you need to grow indoors."
Horticulture and Molecular Biology by Mick Partis, UK. This page and associated documents host the newsletter of an EU research programme on onion quality, offers links to suppliers of chemicals and scientific equipment, lists numerous laboratory protocols, safety information and many useful molecular biology and horticulture web sites.
The Horticultural Web, New Hampshire, USA.
Horticulture in Virtual Perspective by Department of Horticulture and Crop Science The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. - Plant Materials Database, Horticulture in Virtual Perspective (HVP), the Ohio State University, 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.
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.
ICanGarden - Canadian Internet Gardening Resource. An extensive resource site for Canadian amateur or professional gardeners, maintained by Donna Dawson St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
The Internet Bonsai Club, USA
The Internet Garden, UK
Irises by Jim Wilson, USA
Ithaca Gardens, Ithaca, New York, USA. A regional gardening server with global appeal.
Japanese Bonsai Web by Hiroyuki Maekawa, Japan
Japanese Irises - Ian Black's gardening pages, USA
Joe & Mindy's WebGarden, USA
Johnny's Selected Seeds Home Page, Albion, Maine, USA. Johnny's Selected Seeds is a mail orders supplier of vegetable, herb and flower seeds.
Kelly Irvin's Page - The University of Arkansas, USA. Commercial Horticulture & Agriculture, Home Gardening, Horticultural Research.
Kleines Büropflanzen Lexikon, Dirk Schwarz, University of Essen, Germany.
Leelanau Grower's Almanac, Michigan, USA. Northern Climate Gardening. Master Gardener, Perennial Gardener and Fruit Grower Chapters.
Leonard Holmes' Hardy Palm Information 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
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.
Mid Atlantic Bonsai Enthusiast, USA. A collection of resources for the bonsai tree enthusiast. Includes: classified page, events page, links page, local page, travel page Find: clubs, botanical gardens, institutions, nurseries, maps, pots, plants, tools.
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.
New, rare and unusual PLANTS, A Journal for Plant Enthusiasts. New, rare and elusive PLANTS - mainly about hardy species and varieties introduced into the UK
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.
Northern Gardening by Terry L. Yockey, USA. Northern Gardening is a practical resource for all gardeners, especially those in a northern climate.
Northern Pond, Canada. Canadian pond and watergardening site, with a journal concentrating, and a large pond and garden links section.
North Texas Water Garden Society, USA.
Nursery Industry Association of Australia
Organic Tree Care Web Site, Keslick & Son, Modern Arboriculture & Landscape Maintenance, USA. Also articles by Dr Alex L. Shigo on Tree Treatments based on Tree Biology are now on line.
The Ornamental Ginger and Aroid Webpage by Timothy Chapman. Information and pictures of Zingiberales (gingers, Heliconias, etc) and also some Araceae.
The Ortho Encyclopedia of Roses
Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture
Pacific Northwest Gardening Home Page, USA
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.
Peter's Carnivorous Plant Page
The Plant Finder Home Page, UK. These pages provide information about The RHS Plant Finder, the recognised authority on plant nomenclature and Britain's leading guide to over 65,000 plants and where to buy them. The printed book, now in its tenth edition, has been joined in 1996 by The Plant Finder Reference Library CD-ROM. The Plant Finder Reference Library CD is supplied free. Many of the databases and programs on it are free and can be accessed in full directly. The major databases (The RHS Plant Finder, other plant finders and Heather cultivars) are supplied 'locked' but with demonstration versions available that you can try immediately.
The Plant Tracker. This database, compiled by Plants For A Future, a non-profit organization located in Cornwall, U.K., lists, and allows you to search by, the uses for a plant - whether it's edible, medicinal or used for something else.
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 beautiful 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.
The Proven Winners Garden Site, USA. Proven Winners® are hybrid forms of popular flowering plants, created by cross-breeding exotic plants from all over the world with gardeners' favorites like petunias or verbenas.
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.
Seeds and Plants International (SEPI) - The Perennial Source, Canada
Seeds of Hope...Harvest of Pride! Ohio State University, USA. A resource for community vegetable gardeners by Ohio State University Extension's Urban Gardening Program in Cuyahoga County.
Serra Gardens Landscape Cacti and Succulents, California, USA
Silver Bells & Cockle Shells: Answers to your gardening questions. Gardening questions answered by a gardener with lifetime of experience. Simply fill out a form and receive a personal reply. Free!
South Cove Nursery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Stokes Tropicals, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA. A company selling tropical plants: Bananas, Bromeliads, Gingers, Heliconias, and Plumerias etc.
Stekkenplek Zwingelspaan, West Brabant, the Netherlands (a garden). A private garden, open for visitors; lots of roses and annual ornamentals.
The Strawberry Facts Page by Jenni A. Merrifield, 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.
Strictly Hibiscus Homepage (Shelley Lynn, USA)
Sue's Gardenlink - The Amateur Gardener's Fun Resource, USA.
Sustainable Trees and Shrubs for Southern New England, USA Plant materials list from the University of Rhode Island promoting sustainable trees and shrubs for USDA hardiness zones 4 through 7. Disease and pest-free plants tolerant of a range of environmental and human related stresses.
Tillandsia International, USA . Website of the North America's largest Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) grower, with cultural information and color pictures.
Time Life Virtual Garden, The Time Life Complete Gardener Encyclopedia Search Page, USA. In March 1997 this searchable database contained more than 3,000 species selected for general use in North American horticultural practice. - Time Life's House Plant Pavillion, USA.
Traditional Gardening: A Journal of Practical Information on Creating and Restoring Classic Gardens. This is the Internet version of a US gardening journal that concentrates on traditional gardening techniques of interest to historical preservationists, as well as the average gardener who would like to approach their garden with an eye toward classical authenticity.
The Tropical Hibiscus: Queen of the Tropics. Many color photos of the latest hybrids. Also, information on thegrowth and care of tropical hibiscus.
UKEXNET Horticultural Index
University of Missouri Horticulture Guides, USA.
Unofficial World Class Giant Pumpkin Homepage, USA. Information on growing giant pumpkins.
Yahoo - Gardening.
Yesterday's Rose 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.
Zone 10 - The Source for Tropicals on the Internet. A commercial Web site for advertising tropical plants.

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