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Archives: Recommended Websites
Helpful Gardener
This website contains an array of articles concerning vegetable, flower, and container gardening. Also provided are directories listing landscape architects and garden designers by state; nurseries and garden centers around the country; a gardening tips section; and public forums.
Digital Librarian: Gardening
A simple alphabetical list of high quality gardening web sites from around the world. Short annotations help you identify the usefulness of each site.
About.com: Gardening Home Page
Washington Gardens
An annotated list of a vast number of public and private gardens open to visitors across Washington State.
National Gardens Scheme: UK GardenFinder
Every year in the UK, over 3600 NGS open gardens (most of them privately owned) welcome visitors. GardenFinder helps you plan NGS garden visits by dates, by location, garden name or by specific garden feature.
Local Harvest
Use the interactive map of the United States to find farmer’s markets, CSA farms (community supported agriculture),farm stands, and other related organizations that support small local farms.
Grey water – reusing household wash water
How to use graywater, by Oasis Design.
GardenVisit & Travel Guide
The GARDEN VISIT & TRAVEL GUIDE links to information about travel, garden design, landscape architecture and landscape planning. It describes places of interest to gardeners: properties open to the public, historic estates, botanic collections, websites, hotels, design studios, nurseries and product suppliers. It covers 1000+ parks and gardens open to the public throughout the world.
YouGrowGirl.com’s tips for finding free rain barrels.
Sources for free rain barrels.