The Garden Gate: Reading Room

Pull up a comfy computer chair and keep that cup of tea at a safe distance from your keyboard. If you'd like to suggest an addition to the virtual shelves, just email me.

Magazines Online
The distinction between ezines and print magazines continues to blur as more and more print magazines bring their contents online.

Fine Gardening
Selected articles and illustrated design features. Handy index to help you find topics in your old print copies.
Garden Gate Magazine
Selected articles and how-to videos, subscription information (6 issues/year). Garden Gate carries no advertising.
Horticulture Online
Horticulture magazine offers an attractive and content-rich site. And here's a chance to free up some shelf space -- they offer 10 years of the magazine on DVD.

Visit Gardening Magazines at About.com. for additional links.

Magazine Information

Garden Magazines
List of links from the Yahoo directory.
Garden Magazines
A list of gardening magazines originally compiled on the newsgroup rec.gardens. Now maintained at The Garden Gate.

Catalog Information

Cyndi's Catalog of Gardening Catalogs
The latest edition of this listing offers over 2000 catalogs, now arranged by subject. The list is compiled by Cyndi Johnson.
Garden Watchdog
The place to go for advice on purchasing plants by mail as well as other gardeners' reviews and recommendations of thousands of green merchants, over 80% of which are online. Many Web years ago, The Garden Watchdog merged with the venerable Plants by Mail FAQ to build this unique, interactive resource for the shopping gardener.

Catalogs Online
The Garden Gate does not aim to offer a comprehensive listing of online catalogs, instead, the handful listed here are selected because they are out-of-the-ordinary in some way and offer more than just a list of products and click here to order.

Bluestem Nursery
Lots of good information on ornamental grasses, including this comparison chart.
Prairie Nursery
Tutorials on planning, planting, and maintaining meadows and prairies. An excellent source of seeds and plants for gardeners in the tallgrass prairie areas.
For more extensive listings of online catalogs, please see the following sites:

From Cyndi's List of Gardening Catalogs
Garden Bazaar
GardenWeb offers a searchable directory service.
Nurseries
List of links from the Yahoo directory.
Book Sources and Reviews

Book Reviews and Exchange
Swap opinions on books or exchange your pile of gardening book and magazines for someone else's.
Amazon Books
The world's largest online bookstore with 2.5 million titles, Amazon offers secure online ordering and will even find out-of-print books for you. You can either use the Book Search or browse Gardening and Horticulture
Barnes and Noble
You can either use the Book Search or browse Home and Garden titles by category.
Current Books on Gardening and Botany
Books reviews in this quarterly Internet-only publication are written primarly by staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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