Topic: Gardening Sources

[Astronuc]

Gardening Help -

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/

http://www.almanac.com/ - Old Farmer's Almanac

http://dirtdoctor.com/

http://www.overthegardengate.net/

[Astronuc]

Gardening supplies and equipemnt online

www.gardeners.com

[Astronuc]

The Garden Conservancy is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1989 to preserve exceptional American gardens for the public’s education and enjoyment.

Why and how are gardens conserved?

The Garden Conservancy was founded to answer these questions, to provide the resources necessary to preserve many of America’s finest gardens, and to open the gates of these exceptional gardens to the public for education and enjoyment.

Why do we conserve gardens? Anyone who gardens knows the fragile nature of the gardener’s creation: subject to the ravages of climate, weeds, erosion, pests, and other problems, even the most carefully designed gardens can vanish within just a few years when untended. When we lose an exceptional garden, we lose its beauty, but we also lose the lessons it can teach us about the gardener’s era—its values, horticultural science, and aesthetic standards. We conserve beautiful gardens because they are a vital part of our nation’s cultural heritage.

Experts estimate that more than two-thirds of great American gardens have already been lost to the tides of time. As the first national organization devoted to garden preservation, the Garden Conservancy is working to stem that tide by identifying gardens of unusual merit across the nation—from a desert garden in California to a Japanese garden in New York—and working with their owners and other interested parties to ensure the gardens’ futures. Some of these gardens are national treasures, while others are important community resources; all merit conservation as part of our national legacy.

How do we conserve gardens? While the gardener is able to maintain the garden, it remains vibrant. But when the gardener can no longer invest the time, energy, and resources required, the garden and its beauty can perish. Saving a fine garden requires expertise, funding, and community support—resources the Garden Conservancy brings to bear in preserving great American gardens and opening them to the public. The Garden Conservancy works in partnership with individual garden owners and public and private organizations, and uses its legal, financial, and horticultural resources to secure each garden’s future and to make it permanently accessible to the public.

Open Days - Since 1995, the Garden Conservancy has been inviting the public to visit some of the finest private gardens.

[Astronuc]

http://www.gardenweb.com/ - iVillage Garden Web

GardenWeb Forums. You name it, chances are we're talking about it! Find your forum.

The Garden Exchange. Searching for that special plant or have one to trade? You're in the right place!

The Garden Bazaar
A directory of garden-related retailers.

The Garden Directory
Locate plant societies, clubs, botanical gardens and more!

Events Calendar
See what's going on in your neck of the woods or add your own event.

Gardening Q&A
Get answers to your plant related questions.

The Mystery Plant Contest!
Enter for your chance to win a most unusual plant!

[yale]

free plug for a retail garden supply house:

http://springhillnursery.com/Default.asp?

I buy lottsa stuff from there. Good selection, service and prices.

I particularly like that they have various pre-packed gardens.

http://springhillnursery.com/search.asp?t=pf&pf_c=14&pf_z=any&pf_se=any&pf_fc=any&pf_u=any&x=14&y=4

For example, they have a 3-season sunny garden for a 12 x 10 space.

comes with plants and layout plan. Good novice idea.

yale

[yale]

Low environmental/health impact anti-garden pest and disease supplier:




http://www.gardensalive.com/default.asp

I use their stuff all the time.

[Patty]

Three of our favorite environmentally responsible seed sources:

Seed savers: http://www.seedsavers.org/

Earthwise : (I can't find the website, I hope they're still in business!)

Botanical interests:  http://www.botanicalinterests.com/

[Patty]

It's not Earthwise, it's Worldwise - and sadly they are not currently in business. this makes me very sad. They were a very responsible seed house.

[Astronuc]

VegEdge - University of Minnesota Extension Service

Vegetable IPM Resource for the Midwest

http://www.vegedge.umn.edu

The purpose of this site is to provide timely, objective information about all aspects of vegetable crop integrated pest management (IPM), with particular focus on insect pest management in the Midwestern U.S. This information is provided as an aid to assist growers, processors and crop consultants in making better IPM decisions. VegEdge is maintained by Bill Hutchison and Suzanne Wold-Burkness, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Science, University of Minnesota.

[Astronuc]

A relatively new forum - http://www.thegardenforums.org/

[greenleaf1]

I have to second Yale's opinion of Gardens Alive - great stuff!

Also Seeds of Change is pretty good:  http://www.seedsofchange.com/

and Kitchen Garden Seeds :  http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/



I've got plenty of lettuce coming up and some carrots and radishes too.  I've got my pepper seeds started inside....   YAY for summer!

[Astronuc]

Virginia Berry Farm

http://www.virginiaberryfarm.com/

This site is designed to provide gardeners, growers, homeowners, landscapers and other interested people information about some of the most useful plants we possess, fruit plants.  In addition to fruit plants we carry an assortment of non-fruit producing plants which are fruit plants, technically.  These include crabapple trees, highbush cranberry bushes, Cleveland Select pears and other decorative trees. 

Care has been taken to select unique plants providing you with not only a large assortment of conventional fruit plants but also with evergreen groundcovers, dwarf "patio" trees, Covey Twist weeping redbud, and a unique grafted tree called the Fruit Cocktail, which has four different fruits grafted onto a single tree.

Begun in 1984 by Jane Warner and Bill Harwood as a family farm,  we have grown to service many aspects of the "green Industry;" Our wholesale nursery specializes in producing large container-grown fruit plants.

 

I just purchased my latest blueberry bush which came from Virginia Berry Farm.

 :koala

[Astronuc]

City Gardener at http://www.citygardening.net/index/

Background -

I have had gardens in different parts of the United States. The garden I had in Lousiana was mainly a vegetable garden. My NJ garden was grown organically and I grew fruits and vegetables. My present garden is very tiny and mainly in containers. I grow mini-fruit trees, blueberries, raspberries, pomegranates, citrus trees, mums, strawberries, primroses, Asiatic Lilies, and various annuals.

My educational background as related to gardening is as follows. I received my B. S. in Forestry from the University of Montana. My Master's degree is from the University of Georgia in agronomy. My research was in the use of nitrogen in a double cropping system of grain sorghum. Specifically, I measure the losses of nitrogen as ammonia gas from urea and other fertilizers in laboratory and field studies. My course work includes classes in Horticulture, entomology, plant pathology, biochemistry, weed science, forestry, soils, and botany.

My work experience includes field work on the use of legumes and other cover crops in cropping systems. I taught the introductory to soils laboratory to landscape design students for a few years. I worked for several years at the NJ soil testing laboratory analyzing soils and potting mixes. This was followed by stint with an engineer firm as a subcontractor to the EPA. I did research on the removal of metals and organics from soils.

A family illness which required 24 hours a day care caused me to drop out of my field.  This web site and my tiny garden gives me an opportunity to do.

 

[Astronuc]

Doug Green's Gardening - http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/

Thanks for joining me at Simple Gifts Farm’s gardening website, it has expanded from the old one.

And while the old farm has been sold and the thousands of plants moved, the thought about coming down “where you ought to be” in the “valley of love and delight” still rings through my head. As it turns out, the old farm wasn’t just a place, it is a thought and a dream that I carry with me wherever I go and whatever I do.

  Doug Green

Signup for his newsletter.

 :koala

[Astronuc]

Hartmann Plant Company
http://www.hartmannsplantcompany.com/

Small fruit plants.  Woohoo!!!

http://www.hartmannsplantcompany.com/plants.htm
Fruit bushes, berries and small trees!

Blueberries, cold climate
Blueberries, warm climate
Raspberries, summer and fall bearing
Red Raspberries, fall
Red Raspberries, summer
Yellow Raspberries, fall
Purple Raspberries
Black Raspberries
Blackberries
Trailing Thornless Blackberries
Erect Thornless Blackberries
Thorny Blackberries
Other Small Fruit Plants
Gooseberries
Currants & Jostaberry
Kiwi
Bush Cherries
Lingonberries
Special Plants
Himalayan Musk Rose
Lemon Grass
Sweetie Sixteen Stevia
Elderberries
Hummingbird Tree
Papaw

 :koala