“Current Books on Gardening & Botany” is an Internet-only journal reviewing new books and other media about gardening, horticulture, and botany. Reviews cover a wide range of new literature in print and digital form and are written primarily by the staff of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
You Grow Girl
A trendy intro to the world of plants and gardening. Find gardening journals from Canadian, American and Australian contributors, forums like plant I.D. (send them a digital photo), how-to gardening articles, a glossary, info on seeds and propagation, e-cards, screensavers, on-line movies and a shop.
Earthworm Society of Britain
The Earthworm Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland aims to promote and support scientific research so that earthworms and their environment can be better understood.
SafeGardening
“Garden safety tips and advice from experts,” including articles on power tool use and handling pesticides.
Natural History Museum Botany Collections
The Museum’s Botany collection holds an estimated six million specimens of mosses, ferns, seed plants and slime molds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a period from the 17th century to the present and includes a number of historically important collections.
I Can Garden: The Canadian Internet Gardening Resource
“ICanGarden includes information on over 500 garden clubs, over 800 gardens, over 9000 articles from over 200 garden writers, gardening events from around the world, over 1200 links, almost 1000 suppliers and thousands of forum and member items.”
Killerplants.com
Killerplants publishes one of five newsletters daily on topics such as herbal folklore, weird plants, and plants that changed history.
Garden Web
A large community of online gardeners share their collective wisdom with you at this gateway site’s GardenWeb Forums. Online forums are also available in six different European languages. The site also hosts a collection of articles from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
Gardening Launch Pad
Claims to have over 5000 separate links! Specialized categories include garden software, personal garden pages, and garden pictures and images.
Miller Library’s Inventory of Mailorder Nursery Catalogs
The Miller Library maintains a collection of print mailorder nursery catalogs. The catalogs are indexed by type of plant, location, and nursery name. Finding nurseries specializing in clematis, or located in Arlington, for example, is really quite easy. The catalogs themselves are often attractive publications filled with eye-catching pictures and illustrations