Searching for gardening
information on the Web can be as time-consuming as doubledigging a garden,
but also as rewarding. Here are a few good places to start :
THE GARDEN GATE
www.prairienet.org
/garden-gate
A noncommercial service providing a wealth of links to valuable gardening
sites, including various extension services and other nonprofit groups.
PLANT AMERICA
www.plantamerica.com
Bills itself as having the most comprehensive search engine for plant-related
Web sites. It is a good place to look for very detailed information on
plants.
NATIONAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION
www.garden.org
The National Gardening
Association Web site lists gardening information by region as well as month.
it features a variety of research information, links to other gardening sites
and an on-line botany course, and information on children's gardens.
GARDEN NET
www.gardennet.com
One of the early gardening
sites on the Web. It offers features by Cheryl Trine, founder of the site,
detailed information on plants, roundtables and the opportunity to order
free gardening catalogues.
THE VIRTUAL GARDEN
: www.vg.com
Offers a wealth of information, including The Time-Life Plant
Encyclopedia. Its features include Dig the Net, the World of Gardening on
Line, a summary of what garden magazines are offering and a variety of links.
It was recently purchased by Garden Escape.
GARDEN ESCAPE
www.garden.com
ON LINE SHOPPING The Web site of Garden Escape, an
online gardening retailer that works with nurseries across the country to
provide a wide variety of plants and garden accessories. The site features
chat groups, features on gardening, a plant finder that helps gardeners makes
choices and gardendesign assistance.
SIERRA HOME GARDENING
: www.gardening.com
Part of the Web
site of Sierra Home products. It has a monthly to-do list for each region,
a plant encyclopedia, a landscape calculator and links to other sites.
GARDENS-ALIVE
www.gardens-alive.com
ON LINE
SHOPPING
lawn and garden products
BURPEE
SEED COMPANY ON LINE SHOPPING Incudes a feature
with Martha Stewart in its test agrdens, picking her favorite plants. Also
aligned with the National Gardening Association to get qestions answered
in 48 hours.
While these are
all general-interest sites, virtually any specialty gardening subject, like
African violets (www.avsa.org), is
covered on the Web. And extension services, like Cornell
University's(www.cce.cornell.edu
, are also on line.
Garden LinksA neat resource for garden links, horticultural data, catalogs and more
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