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Butterfly
Society of Rhode Island
The
Clearing In The Woods The personal gardening page of Helen Wright,
who lives in the the woods in South County. Photos, lists of fragrant
and easy flowers, tips on dealing with acid soil and predatory Bambis.
Garden
Web: New
England Gardening forum. Ask away. Garden Web forums are a great source
of information from other gardeners. (Free registration required.)
Growing
Hardy Palms and Subtropicals in Rhode Island
Hardiness
Map of New England
Rhode
Island Integrated Pest Management
Rhode
Island Pumpkin Growers Association How to grow great pumpkins.
Rhode
Island Rose Society Photos, links, online rosarians.
The
Rhode Island Wild Plant Society"...is dedicated to promoting
the conservation of Rhode Island's native plants through habitat preservation,
education, propagation, and recreational programs."
Sustainable
Trees and Shrubs From URI: "... to encourage the production and
use of landscape plants that are more sustainable: those which require
reduced inputs of pesticides, water, and maintenance and are not invasive."
Includes suggestions of plantings for demanding situations.
Endangered
species in Rhode Island
Wildflowers
of Rhode Island
URI
Master Gardener program
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Altavista search engine's garden
software links
3D Garden
Composer 3D Garden Composer is a garden software kit on CD-ROM for
garden design, planning, landscaping.
Companion
planting links at about.com
Feng
shui: sacred garden Garden plannng according to the principles of
this ancient Chinese art of design and placement.
Nature's
Best Masked Flower Images Picture to make garden design software more
realistic.
Plants
for a Future: The Species Database More than 7,000 plants, searchable
by name, habitat and browsable by edible, medicinal and household use.
Pepper
heat scale Handy for choosing which hot pepper varieties to grow.
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Starting
seeds An essay by Lorraine Kiefer, a southern New Jersey horticulturalist,
garden-writer, teacher and the owner of Triple
Oaks Nursery, that may spare you a basement full of leggy seedlings.
Other
Kiefer essays.
The
Official Seed Starting Home Page of Weekend Gardener
Seed
starting links from about.com
Google
search: Starting seeds indoors
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The
Garden Watchdog Guide to Gardening by Mail. As of 1.26.05, 2,657 plant,
seed and bulb companies listed, with members providing 16,327 comments
and ratings.
(Membership is free.)
American Fern Society
A 100-year-old organization offering advice and forums on ferns and a
spore exchange.
Choice
Edibles
Mushroom kits and spawn for both the beginner and professional.
New
England Wild Flower Society
Conservation
Gardening In New England A wildflower page.
Country
Flower Farms
Seeds, bulbs, houseplants and gardening accessories.
Ferry
Morse
Vegetable, flower and herb seeds, supplies, and information. Some certified
organic seeds.
Garden
Guides Many links for mail-order catalogs.
Merry
Gardens Online retail greenhouse specializing in ivy hedera, scented
geraniums, miniature geraniums,and many other plants (formerly Hobbs Farm
& Greenery).
Mushroom
sites
Mushroom-growing kits and information.
Hosta
La Vista, Baby! For fans of the showy, shade-loving hosta.
John
Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds Gourmet vegetables, herbs and collections
illustrated with simple pleasing drawings from this Connecticut firm.
Johnny's
Selected Seeds
Vegetable, flower and herbs seeds in quantities suited to both home gardeners
and commercial growers; organic growing supplies and information.
The
Natural Gardening Co.
Organic vegetable, herb and flower plants and seeds; tools, composters,
and pest control aids.
New
England Seed Company Web Store Herbs, veggies, flowers, Italian vegetables
and Northeast wildflowers, garden tips.
Old
Heirloom Roses
Many varieties of old-fashioned roses, plus information about caring for
roses organically.
Organic
Gardening links from OrganicGardening.com
Park Seed
Vegetable, flower and herb seeds, perennial plants, bulbs, trees, shrubs,
tools and accessories.
Plant
Delights Nursery
Unique or hard-to-find perennials, particularly U.S. natives. Many are
exclusive.
Renee's
Garden Specialty flower, herb and veggie seeds from Renee Shepherd
of Shepherd's Garden Seeds. "Rainbow" vegetables come with three color-coded
varieties in the same packet, so you can try three varieties for the price
of one seed packet.
Seeds
of Change
Certified organic seeds, bulbs, and plants. Organic food, too.
Sow
Organic Seed Co.
Certified organic, open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flowers seeds.
Stokes
Tropicals The home of over 400 tropical plants such as bananas, bromeliads,
gingers, heliconias, and plumerias, along with plant care products and
lots of information.
Territorial
Seeds
Organic seed for vegetables, flowers, herbs and cover crops. And a wide
selection of organic growing supplies.
Victory
Gardens
Comprehensive site dedicated to seed saving and heirloom seeds that also
offers gardening gifts.
Victory
Seed Company offers heirloom vegetables, heirloom herbs, heirloom
flowers, and other open pollinated varieties. Open-pollinated, heirloom
seeds only.
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Algy's
Herb Page (links page) Gateway to culinary and medicinal herb sites.
American
Botanical Council Online Great photos in their Herbal
Image Library
Botanical.com
News, articles and herbal and botanical information.
Garden
Medicinals and Culinaries Herb seed and plants, heirloom and new flowers
and vegetables from this Virginia company's breeding program, garlic bulbs,
onion sets
Henriette's Herbal Homepage Herbal medicine and culinary herbs, including
the culinary herb FAQ and the medicinal herb FAQ
HerbNET
Huge site
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Angelgrove Tree Seed Company Seeds of flowering trees, Japanese
trees, bonsai and hardy shrub roses.
Nourse
Farms a source for virus-indexed, small fruit plants: strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants and gooseberries, as
well as asparagus, rhubarb, and horseradish.
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All Things
Organic Worm composting bins, worms and imformation about vermicomposting.
The
Butterfly Website Instructions for butterfly breeding, gardens that
attract them (and hummingbirds) and a butterfly "stockyard"
where customers looking for rare butterflies can query breeders.
The
Butterfly Zone Butterfly guide and an emphasis on attracting butterflies
to urban gardens.
The
Compost Resource Page
Composters.com Bins and supplies for sale, and tips on composting
Create a backyard
habitat for the wildlife of your choice.
Do
Not Panic, Eat Organic "An organic growers homepage." A
wild list of organic farming and gardening links, and anything else that
fits its very broad theme.
Dragonfly
Website
Garden
Pests and Problems Organic Pest Management
The
Harvest Shelter Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose focus
is to promote organic gardening in an effort to encourage gardeners to
donate their excess fruits, vegetables and flowers to their local homeless
shelters.
The
Hummingbird Web Siteand Hummingbirds.net
and The Hummingbird Society
Organic
Gardening at Gardeners Network
Beginning
Organic Gardening and (Intermediate) Organic
Gardening at Suite101.com
Rodale
Organic Gardening
The
Vegetable Patch An Australian site with veggie advice and downloadable
organic gardening books.
Wild
Ones Handbook Natural landscaping book online includes plans for bird-
and bathouses and a wattle fence.
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About.com's
gardening section A huge gateway site.
The
Amazing Environmental WebDirectory Bills itself as the largest exclusively
environmental organization directory on the Web and includes thousands
of sites from more than 100 countries and an environmental search engine.
Dr.
Greenfingers "Free Advice & Help Clinic For The Amateur & Virgin
Gardener." Unusual English site.
The
Gardener's Net How to grow...
Garden
Launch Pad Links to an alphabetical list of garden topics, African
violets to Xeriscape.
GardenWeb
Commercial site with a plant dictionary, forums, seed and plant exchanges,
shopping opportunities.
Plant
Facts Database Ohio State University's useful fact sheet and search
engine.
UConn
plant database Browse by common or Latin names, search for plants.
The
Spirit of Gardening links to garden sites, faerie sites, reading materials,
poetry...
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ACF Greenhouses - Specializing in hobby greenhouse kits and
supplies.
Gardenscape Garden Tools
Garden tools & enabling gardening products for gardeners of all ages &
abilities.
Garden Expressions Online catalog of arbors, sundials, flower
presses and more.
Garden
with Insight is free software, an educational garden simulator: "You
can use Garden with Insight to learn more about how the weather, the soil,
and plants interact, and about the science that is used to model these
things." Interesting site.
How
to create a table top fountain for under $50
Monty's
Joy Juice Organic plant food.
Neptune's Harvest Neptune's
Harvest is an organic fertilizer made from fresh North Atlantic fish.
Sycamore
Creek Copper arbors and trellises.
The
Water Garden Plants, ponds, waterfalls, fountains, statues, filters,
fish food.
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Allen's
Garden Monthly stories, recipes, video clips, seasonal tips, featured
plants.
OrganicGardening
Fine
Gardening
People,
Places and Plants Gardening Magazine Information about plants and
places specific to New England; published five times a year.
Traditional
Gardening The magazine, devoted to reclaiming old gardens, has folded,
but some of its stories remain online. Kitchen garden tips, landscaping,
etc.
The
Virtual Gardener Billed as an online magazine with organic roots.
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Claude
Monet's garden at Giverny
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