Clearinghouse of Professional Information

Gardening Resources

This section includes links to support our EXCEL courses, especially the collection development course and the on-line "Electronic Sources of Information". Students can use this selection of links to complete their assignments.

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General Resources

• Better Homes and Gardens Gardening Home Page
• Botany.Com, the Encyclopedia of Plants.
• Compost Resource Page
• GardenWeb: directory of gardening sites, good comprehensive starting point
• The Garden Gate: teaching, reading room, sun room - indoor plants, guide to finding answers on the net, mailing lists, and more.
• GardenGuide: a growing resource for gardeners
• Garden Escape: database of plants, templates for garden design planning, garden doctor, resource links, tip of the day.
• Horticultural Dictionary (NGA) includes more than 15,000 main entries, including an extensive selection of plants and their varieties, fruits, herbs, vegetables, botanical terms, pests, diseases, pesticides, fertilizers, soils, tools and materials, and techniques
• National Gardening Association (U.S.)
• Northern Gardening: Northern Gardening is a practical resource for all gardeners--especially those in a northern climate, from a Minnesota Master Gardener
• Orchid Web (American Orchid Society)
• Poisonous Plants Home Page (Cornell University)
• Tree Care Consumer Information - International Society of Arboriculture
• The Virtual Garden

Canadian Gardening

• CBC's Canadian Gardener: based on the television programme
• Canada: Poisonous Plants
• Canadian Gardening: from one of Canada's top gardening magazines
• Cultivating Canadian Gardens: exhibit on the development of gardening in Canada from the National Library of Canada
• Gardens+Gardening:Guide to Gardening in Atlantic Canada
• ICanGarden: the Canadian Internet Gardening Resource, from Alberta, includes a very extensive list of Canadian sites
• Invasive Plants of Canada: from Canadian Botanical Conservation Network
• Virtual Gardener: home garden magazine with organic roots.
• Zone Map of Canada

Ontario Gardening

• Carolinian Canada
• Fletcher Wildlife Garden, Ottawa
• Gardening in Southern Ontario
• Ontario Master Gardener Telephone Hotlines: call locally with gardening questions
• Ontario Horticultural Association
• Royal Botanical Gardens
• Trees and Shrubs of Ontario

Plant Databases

• Better Homes and Gardens Editor's Choice Plant Guide Search
• Botany.Com, the Encyclopedia of Plants.
• Canada Poisonous Plants
• Edible Landscaping Database
• Gardening.com Plant Encyclopedia
• Landscape Architecture Virtual Library (UofT)
• Plants for a Future: contains details of nearly 7000 plants, all of which are either edible, have medicinal properties or have some other use such as fibers, oils or soaps. For each plant the database contains details of the uses of the plants, as well as information of the environment it will grow in and cultivation details.
• Seed Germination Database: all the information you will need to start your perennial plants by seed.

(as of March 5, 2008)