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Great garden links

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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