Gardening

Librarian's Choice

L ibrarian's Choice->Gardening

Societies and Organizations

About.com: Gardening

About.com uses experts in particular fields to build a comprehensive list of links on each of their topics. This site includes sections on the beginner gardener, garden design, edible plants, indoor gardening, resources, seasonal, small space, and much more.

Better Homes and Gardens

Better Home and Garden offers useful gardening resources from landscaping 101 and garden plans to growing veggies, guides to soils, and water gardens.

Better Homes and Gardens-Garden Plans

This site lists twenty-seven different plans that including mailbox gardens, butterfly gardens, "island" beds, patio garden, and much more. Each plan covers a planting guide and a list of plants.

Farmer's Markets

This directory of farmer's markets is broken down by state.

Floridata

"Floridata, is an online photo reference of plants, covering categories such as trees, shrubs, vines, cactus, water plants, annuals, and many more. Use it to identify beautiful plants for your home and garden."

Garden Gate

"The Garden Gate offers gardeners and nature lovers a carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world."

Garden Guides

This site covers informational guides on plants and vegetables.

Help Me Find-Roses

Help Me Find Roses includes information on over 34,000 varieties of roses, rose show results, gardens, organization, books, and events.

Home Gardening

Home Gardening is a collection of fact sheets on a wide variety of gardening topics from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Plant Facts

Plant Facts has informational guides for answering plant-related questions from 46 different universities and government institutions across the United States and Canada.

Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Savers Exchange is an organization that is saving "heirloom" garden seeds from extinction.

The Reference staff of La Crosse Public Library (LPL) have selected Internet resources that we feel would be of particular interest to our library users. These sites are created and maintained by organizations and individuals throughout the world. LPL cannot be responsible for the content, accuracy, or availability of these sites. The inclusion of a link does not mean that LPL endorses or sponsors the products or services, if any, described or offered by these web sites.

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