Search a database of over 400 herbs. Search criteria include, sun requirements, height, flower color, and uses.
Under Databases in the Teaching Garden.
Find out what your state's Cooperative Extension has to offer. Can be
an excellent source of regional horticulture information. From
WWW Virtual Library: Gardening
Under Collections in the Teaching Garden.
National Plants Database
From the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. Replaces the National List
of Scientific Names (NLSN). The PLANTS Database provides a single source of standardized information about plants. PLANTS provides
standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information.
Still under development. Not all database query features have been
fully implemented.
Under Databases in the Teaching Garden.
A very interesting attempt to integrate interactive garden planning
and plant selection functions
within a catalog. This kind of functionality presents a
tremendous challenge in interface design, especially given
the speed limitations of most visitors' connections.
Orders are filled by 'supply partners', including
Milaeger's and Jung's Seeds. One drawback is that plants
are listed by common name only.
Under Online Catalogs in the
Reading Room.
The Internet is a better place for having a domain name like 'wormsway.com'.
Informational catalog for hydroponics lights and supplies. Visit
The Trellis for a
compilation of green links.
Another set of excellent pages from Texas Aggie Horticulture's
excellent web site. Includes an informational
page on the American Community Gardening Association
Both experienced irisarians and beginners are welcome. If you grow, breed, or study irises, or just
want to join the conversation, you are invited to subscribe.
The same outstanding content that made VCE one of the best
Extension gopher sites on the Internet, now makes it one of the best
Web sites. Excellent collection of detailed, easy-to-read, plain text
(not PDF!)
facts sheets
plus almost 50 publications, including a comprehensive
collection entitled
Cultural Practices in the Vegetable Garden.
Texas Agricultural Extension offers a collection of
answers to horticultural question. Lucky southern gardeners are
invited to e-mail the TAEX specialists with their question.
The City Farmer at Canada's Office for Urban Agriculture offers
tons of good information and useful starting points for
anyone interested in starting an urban community garden.
In the Teaching Garden.
The National Agricultural Library Image Database Project.
Two searchable collections: 1,000 hand-colored botanical
prints from Curtis Botanical Magazine (1787-1904)
and 1,000 slide images of plant pests and diseases.
1/14/95 - Gardening shareware
By Michael Wolter. A database for gardeners to keep track of seeds;
includes gardening information and will print a
planting schedule that is tailored to a user's particular region.
Download seed11.zip. On the
Gardening Software page.
The ARS offers information for rose-lovers - so whether you're looking
membership information, recommendations on roses or solid advice from
Consulting Rosarians, look no further.
In the Teaching Garden.
Wondering about bunya-bunya, ilang ilang, lori-lori, kava-kava? Check out
this informative site which offers, among other things,
descriptions of 250 rare and unusual edible plants.
In the Teaching Garden.
Not for tea-lovers only, this excellect collection of information
and links is worth another visit. Don't miss the
Graphics Cabinet whick offers a collection of lovely old illustrations.
Another interesting tidbit is a
chart of daylength by latitude. By Klaus Peper.
In the Teaching Garden.
An ambitious undertaking aiming "to facilitate
the dissemination of information, communications, social interaction
and ease of conducting research and business in the horticultural community".
Featuring possibilities for live online chat areas.
If you swap compost recipes with your friends over lunch, this site is
for you. Good down-to-earth information about helping nature along in
the production of black gold. In the Teaching Garden.
From the humble roadside milkweed to the butterfly's
favorite butterflyweed to carrion flowers pollinated
by blow flies, the family Asclepiadaceae offers a fascinating
variety of plants. This page features a picture gallery as well as information
about the International Asclepiad Society.
In the Teaching Garden.
The well-known bulb catalog comes to the WWW. Request a catalog
or limited online ordering of their most popular selection.
Acrobat PDF files with cultural tips.
Some illustrations.
In the
Gardener's Reading Room.
Learn about the Grand Prairie in an illustrated WWW article by Dr. Ken
Robertson of the Illinois Natural History Survey. Over 80 original
photographs of prairies and prairie plants. Bibliography.
In the
Teaching Garden.
Selected articles from the print magazine, subscription
information (6 issues/year). Garden Gate carries no advertising.
In the Gardener's Reading Room.
In the UK, a mall is a place to stroll, not a place to hang. So
take a (careful) stroll through this page of links to resources
for cactophiles (and succulentophiles).
In the
Teaching Garden.
Where's that URL you saw while reading rec.gardens the other day?
Check out the Green Eggs Reports for URLs culled from gardening newsgroups.
Tucked into the
Holding Bed.
Follow the Teaching link to HTGrover.
Search the knowledgebase by selecting by type, USDA Zone, size, and over
60 other criteria
(don't choose too many at once, or your search will come up empty; use Reload to
clear the form). Centre for Landscape Research, University of Toronto.
Under
Databases
in the
Teaching Garden.
Take an informative tour through one of the oldest botanical
gardens in Poland which dates back to 1818. Mostly in English.
On the
Down the Garden Path... page.
Visit an unusual garden at the University of Southern California being
tended by people from all over the world with a web-controlled robot.
On the
Down the Garden Path... page.
Private gardens grow well on the Web. Take trip to the Netherlands to visit
Marion's charming city garden. Contribute your garden picture to help
her build her
Gardens of the World page. On the
Down the Garden Path... page.
If you love water gardening, visit Pete's Pond Page where Pete tells all
and shows all. If you've visited before, stop by again for many new
pictures and useful information.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
At last, a way to zero in on the wealth of information offered by
Universities and Cooperative Extensions Services! Dr. Tim Rhodus of OSU's
WebGarden offers us a searchable database of over 3000 factsheets
from dozens of sites in the US, Canada and the Netherlands.
Under
databases
on the
Teaching Garden page.
Niche Gardens of North Carolina offers an informative online catalog with some
illustrations. Niche Gardens specializes in nursery-propagated wildflowers,
southeastern natives, selected garden perennials, ornamental grasses
and underused trees and shrubs.
Under
catalogs on the
Reading Room page.
A group of American Hemerocallis Society members has put up some informative
pages along with a gallery of daylily images.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
From the New South Wales Region. These well-organized pages are
an excellent example of how a regional organization can use
the WWW to inform and instruct. These pages can serve as
a model for other organizations hoping to do the same.
Henriette Kress' Culinary Herb FAQ offers the distillation
of the cumulative gardening and cooking skills of
rec.gardens readers.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
A collection of original information for the orchid grower, everything from
a lists of journals and growers to information on showing and judging orchids.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
Algy offers a large collection of links for information on herb
growing, medicinal uses, catalogs, and discussion groups.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
Jim Wilson's Iris Page offers cultural tips, answers to frequently
asked questions, as well as lists of suppliers, organizations, reference
books and other useful information.
Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
InterUrban WaterFarms of Hawaii offers an informative set of pages on, yes,
hydroponics. To surfers 40 and over: small font warning. Under
FAQs
on the
Teaching Garden page.
Even though they got The Garden Gate's URL wrong in the most recent
issue of American Horticulturalist, we hold no grudges and
welcome them to the WWW! The information offered is just basic
membership information. Let's hope there's more to come!
No hobby too large that it doesn't fit on a Web page! Be sure to e-mail
the Pumpkin King with other Giant Pumpkin Web sites.
On the
Teaching Garden page.
Records of Barry Glick's horticultural odyssey.
Features information and discussion of specialist plant societies,
upcoming events and plant shows in all parts
of the global gardening community, new books, sources for rare, unusual
and eclectic plants, as well as interviews with collectors and experts in particular genera.
There will even be a plant locator service for those really hard to find varieties.
From the WWW publication
The Virtual Mirror. On
The Gardener's Reading Room page.
Join the brand new list medit-plants for discussions with gardeners in
mediterranean climates around the world.
On the
Mailing Lists for Gardeners page.
Larry London at SunSite has put together WWW pages for easier access to
the rec.gardens archives and FAQs at SunSITE. Check out the
Herb archives.
On the
Teaching Garden page.
4/21/95 * The Bonsai Display Bench that Jack Built
Visit Jack and see how he went about building a display bench for
his bonsai collection.
Gary Lipe's wildflower homepage is a work in progress - he aims to bring
together information and links to native plant resources around the country.
Stop by to browse or to contribute!
On the
Teaching Garden page.
The National Wildflower Research Center of Austin, Texas comes
online just as it is celebrating the Grand Opening
of its new Wildflower Center. Don't miss the wonderful
photo of founder
Lady Bird Johnson in a field of bluebonnets.
On the
Down the Garden Path... page.
Part of Time Life's Pathfinder
Virtual Garden, these pages offers general information
about the NYBG, descriptions of its specialty gardens as
well as some plant information. On the
Down the Garden Path... page.
Terrace Software's landscape and garden design software for the
Macintosh. Reviewed for The Garden Gate by Sue Ann Kendall.
On the
Gardening Software page.
From Canada's
The Computer Paper, an article by Martin P. Waterman discusses
software programs for garden layout and design. On the
Gardening Software page.
This new page at The Garden Gate featuring reviews of gardening and
landscaping software, and (coming soon) direct links to ftp sites
for shareware and freeware gardening and landscaping software.
Pete tells all about his experience constructing his pond, provides
a list of suppliers, and throws in some very nice pictures of his pond
for good measure.
On the
Teaching Garden page.
Looking for the right catalog? Find it in the updated
SOURCES listing! With live links to online
WWW catalogs as they become available.
On the catalog shelf in the
Gardener's Reading Room page.
The number of Internet sites has grown exponentially
since mid-1994. This completely updated page offer links to a
a selection of well-maintained and frequently updated
index sites. On the
Internet Resources page.
This new Garden Gate page will feature whatever is
new, interesting, useful, curious, worthwhile, or
seriously frivolous. Whatever makes a Bloomin' Great
Site is what it takes to be featured here.
Whether you call them houseplants, indoor plants, tropicals or
greenhouse plants, you can learn how to stop killing them. Visit
the Sun Room for plantlife-saving information.
Trying to keep uptodate with discussions on a particular topic?
You can automatically search the tens of thousands of
articles in today's USENET news or send a request to a
news filtering service which will send you articles on
selected topics via e-mail.
On the
Newsgroups page.
Looking for the right catalog? Find it in the new, improved
*SOURCES* listing! Now with an index of over 20 different categories,
so you can more easily find what you're looking for.
On the catalog shelf in the
Gardener's Reading Room page.
Did you know that 'Lavender' (Lavandula)
comes from the Latin word 'to wash'? Ever wonder why the daylily
is called Hemerocallis? Or what angustifolia means?
Here are over 1000 root word of botanical names from a- to zyg-.
On the
Teaching Garden page.
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