“Garden safety tips and advice from experts,” including articles on power tool use and handling pesticides.
Archives: Recommended Websites
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
Weed Identification
Enter information about an unidentified weed, and compare it with photographs and text descriptions of weeds that share similar characteristics.
Learning to Identify Plants by Families
An article that introduces you to the basic patterns of identification for seven of the largest and easiest-to-recognize families of plants, which are found worldwide.
What Tree is That?
The National Arbor Day Foundation’s version of a tree identification tool. A series of pictures and questions are used like a dichotomous key to identify mystery trees by process of elimination. A very good animated interactive tutorial illustrates how to use a dichotomous key.