Subject: The Virtual Allotment

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 22:48:12 -0400

http://www.cog.brown.edu:80/gardening/wwwlist.html

-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
mailto:[email-masked]  
http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden
The Virtual Allotment
Don't think of the Net as a super highway; it's more of a virtual allotment and it's not for netsurfing, but netpottering.
Guardian, Online section, 28.07.94
Botanic gardens

Australian National Botanic Gardens
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Georgeson Botanical Garden
Worn out from too much net surfing? Take a break in the Hypergarden, an installation of virtual garden spaces to relax in.
Missouri Botanic Garden
Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
University of Conneticut
University of Delaware Botanic Gardens
University of Florida Herbarium
Botany Department at the University of Georgia

Catalogues

Books that work
Cindy's List
CMI
Garden Gate: The Garden Center
Gardener's Supply Company
Gourmet Gardener
InfoVID Outlet - Gardening & Flowers
Johnny's Selected Seeds - for catalogue send your POSTAL address to [email-masked]
Klehm Nursery
New York Botanical Gardens Library [Log in as 'library']
Richters Seeds - for information email [email-masked]
Southern Perennials and Herbs (Mike Bridges)
Sunshine Farm & Gardens (Barry Glick)
Vengers orchids [not found 07/05/95]

Discussion Lists
Mailing Lists for Gardeners - an extensive list of gardening-related lists

Alpines (ALPINE-L)
[email-masked]
Aroids (AROID-L)
[email-masked]
Home Composting Discussion List (COMPOST)
[email-masked]
Herbs
[email-masked]
LISTSERV @VM.EGE.EDU.TR
[email-masked]
Hobby greenhouses (HGA-L)
[email-masked]
Virginia Extension office (Hort-L)
[email-masked]
Residential Gardening (RES-GARD)
[email-masked]

Journals

The Arid Lands Newsletter
The Cyber-Plantsman
The Growing EDGE
Homeground
Horticultural Engineering Newsletter (Login using your 2 letter state abbreviation)
Southern Living
Sunset - Regional Magazine on Western Gardening

Organic farming/gardening

Noah's Ark

General Resources

Common Weights And Measures - Common U.S. and Metric equivalents
GardenNet
The Garden Spider's Web
German horticulture server [not found 07/05/95]
Horticulture in Virtual Perspective - provide multimedia reference materials about horticulture and information on current programs and courses being offered at Ohio State University
Master Gardener
Michigan State University Extension - Home Horticulture
Missouri Extension Service Horticulture Guides
Nebraska Horticulture Facts
North American Plant Preservation Council
North Carolina State University Horticultural Information
PENPages - Penn State University College of Agriculture
Stony Brook HSC Library
Texas A & M Horticultural Programme
TIME LIFE Complete Gardener Encyclopedia
USDA Zone Finder
Virtual garden
Landcape architecture

Freenets & Community Networks

The Garden Gate
(also at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/garden-gate/homepage.htm)

Heartland Regional Network (Peoria, Illinois). [login as "bbguest"]Check the "home and garden center" for information about gardening.

Garden Pictures

DIVA (Digital Images for the Visual Arts) - Gardens & landscape design
Boboli John Singer Sargent 1907; purchased by the Brooklyn Museum in 1909; The title refers to gardens in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence
Flowers pictures archive
Gallery[not found 07/05/95]
Images

Specific Plant Groups
Arranged according to DDC 20

582.16 - Trees
British Trees
583.111 - Ranales
International Waterlily Society
583.166 - Theales
International Camellia Society - Taxonomy, culture, propagation and research on the genus Camellia.
583.37 - Rosales

583.372 - Rosaceae
The Rose FAQ
Strawberry Fields
587.397 - Cuoniales
Hydrangea home page
583.62 - Ericales
Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust
584.32 - Liliales

584.323 - Liliaceae
Daylilies Online (An Experimental Project)

NOTE:
This is merely a collection of links I have found interesting or useful. With regard any commercial organisations mentioned above, inclusion on this list does not represent an endorsement of any products or services, nor does exclusion respresent similar disapprobration.
This page may be freely reproduced, amended or distributed by individuals; the author's permission is required by all others.
Date created: 18/01/95
Last updated: 04 May 95

(c)Lynn Corrigan
hebe @glaschu.demon.co.uk