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The Best Gardening Sites on the Web

Everthing you want to know about gardening and more! Vegetables, Annuals, Perennial, Herbs, Exotics, Trees & Shrubs, Lawns, Landscaping, Houseplants, and more!

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General Gardening

Garden Web
One of the best places on the net for gardening and landscaping help and knowledge.
Includes an excellent search feature to easily find what ever gardening information you need. Definitely worth bookmarking!

DirectGardening.com
One of the top sites on the web for ordering quality plants of all kinds, right online, at great prices. Highly recommended.

PlanetGarden
Another top site for ordering quality plants and roses online. Also includes some very informative how-to articles and plenty of gardening tips. Definitely worth checking out.

BackyardGardener.com
This is a great gardening site for both novices and more experienced gardeners. It covers just about every aspect of gardening you can think of.

Garden & Landscape
A good basic general garden and landscape site for both the beginner or more experienced gardener. A wealth of reliable information provided by the University of Wisconsin.

Botany
Here's a top gardening reference and educational site - a vast encyclopedia of plants with concise descriptions and both common and botancical names. Highly recommeded.

Planning and Design

Fifteen Garden Plans
Here are 15 basic garden designs to help you plan your garden. These plans are especially useful for beginners or to anyone looking for ideas.

Garden Designs
A great step by step guide to garden design from start to finish Easy to understand and well organized.

Basic Gardening Techniques
Basic Pruning Techniques
A very useful bascic guide, especially for beginners, on how to prune trees and shrubs. Illustrations show you exactly how and where to prune.

Garden Gate Tips
An archive of the best gardening tips & techniques from Garden Gate magazine. A wealth of handy information and know-how - definitely worth saving.

Flowers

Annuals

Annuals Plus
A very useful site with a wide range of information on all types of annuals and their care. Includes tips, planting advice, weed and pest control and more. Highly recommended.

All About Annuals
A great guide to growing annuals. Includes planting and care guidelines, and detailed information on dozens of varieties of annual flowers.

Discovering Annuals
A site full of practical advice and tips on how to grow annuals to beautify your yard and garden. Also includes seed sources.

Perennials

Absolute Authority on Perennial Plants
A great source of information by a number of expert authorities on growing perennial plants of all kinds.

The Creative Gardener
Take a virtual garden tour -excellent site featuring useful articles on garden design using color, texture and form. Many illustrations and photos.

Perennial Calendar of Color
Here's a great organized a to z list of perennials classified by types by Oregon Certified Nursery Professional, Rod Smith. This list is intended to help gardeners select perennials for flowers all year. Perennials are listed by height and flower season. Great reference!

Bulbs

BloomingBulb.com
A top rated site that offers the home gardener flower bulbs at wholesale prices, that are guaranteed to grow. Also gardening articles and useful tips.

Beauty with Bulbs
Offers hints, feeding advice, companion plant suggestions, preparation and planting tips along with a list of common varieties.

Bulb.com
The U.S. Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center (NFBIC) - a reputable well known authority on bulbs and a source of good information on everything you need to know to have success with growing bulbs.

Roses

The Rosarian
If you have a question about roses, here's where you'll find the answer. The Rosarian a site devoted exclusively to roses and how to grow them.

Timeless Roses
Everything you want to know about roses ans more! A very informative and useful site inlcuding sections on growing, pruning, selecting, and feeding roses of all varieties.

Trees and Shrubs
Trees, Shrubs & Vines
Great growing guides to shrubs, trees and vines, written by the gardeners at D. A. Hoerr. Quote: "Our topics reflect what gardeners tell us they want to know, and our personal gardening experiences too.

Fruits and Nuts
Edible Landscaping
A good Edible Landscaping & Gardening site focusing on fruit, nuts, herbs and vegetables. The information is totally oriented with the home gardener in mind. Very informative.

Vegetables

General

Vegetable Gardening
An excellent vegetable gardening site including planning, seed starting, fertilizing, cultivation, care, harvest, pest control, disease prevention, canning and more.

The Vegetable Patch
Well know online vegetable growing site full of practical tips and advice on growing all kinds of vegetables naturally. Great search feature too.

Growing Organically

The Organic Vegetable Gardening Guru
A great hands-on guide to organic vegetable gardening. Includes organic vegetable discussion forum and a great selection of handy organic growing tips.

Herbs
Herb Gardening
A small but good basic guide on how to grow and care for different herbs. Great for beginners - answers many basic questions about herbs.

Lawn Care
Lawn Talk
The New York Times called this site the grassiest site on the web. 30 helpful expert fact sheets covering lawn care, watering, fertilizing, grass problems, and more.

Gardening Problems
Insects and Pests

The Garden Clinic
The garden clinic is a very useful garden web forum that allows users to share information on plant pests and diseases.

Natural Pest Control
Good advice on how to control pests without resorting to toxic pesticides. Includes how-to natural controls for an array of individual pests.

Plant Diseases

Plant Disease Identification
A site worth bookmarking - find out what's ailing your plants - whether they be flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, or whatever else.

Weeds

World of Weeds
The World of Weeds is one of the most popular weed control sites on the web. Learn all about weeds and how to control them using non-toxic, ergonomic methods.

Seeds
Seed Starting

Veg Seeds
A good site to learn how to start vegetable seeds of all types. Tells you all you need to know in an easy to understand and straightforward manner.

Seed Sources

Johnny�s Selected Seeds
Johnny�s Selected Seeds is a great mail order supplier of vegetable, flower, herb, and sprouting seeds. Located in Albion, Maine, 25 years in business. Highly recommended. Free mail-order catalog.

Soil and Compost
Master Composter
This is a great site for newcomers to the world of composting. Very good, descriptive and informative articles concerning composting. Links to related sites as well.

Gardening and Landscaping Articles
Secrets of the Garden Masters by Sharon Cohoon
A very enlightening article first appearing in Sunset Magazine, in 1996. Five avid plant lovers share the secrets of creating a beautiful garden. Michael Barclay, Dan Heims, Judy Wigand, and Gwen and Panayoti Kelaidis. Six pages - printable.

Choosing A Style For Your Garden by Michael Weishan
A good landscaping lesson(part one) with illustrations.

Welcoming Winter Birds Choose the right seed to attract your favorite birds by Dan Hickey
An excellent article(especially for the novice) on how to attract different birds to your backyard. Illustrated.

Soil - At the Root of it All by Georgiana Marshen
A good basic introduction to understanding soil makeup and its importance for a successful garden, by master horticulturist Georgiana Marshen.

Watering Tricks by Lisa Erickson
Basic guide to watering and different methods that can be used, as well as a list of plants that require mimimal watering.

How to Make a Front Yard Garden even the Fussiest Neighbor will Approve Of by Carol Wallace
A well written and amusing personal view with ideas on how to beautify a front yard.