Garden Writing on the Net
The Spirit of Gardening on the Net
Garden Digest
Directory
This Net guide presents a variety of websites with quotes, quips,
poetry, proverbs, sayings, humor, essays, commentary, ideas, reflections, dictionaries,
glossaries, and related written materials on gardening, horticulture, landscapes and
natural history.
It also tries to locate collections of photographs of plants. It points to many mass
media gardening topics.
It includes a very good selection of gardening magazines.
There are thousands of websites and scores of databases on the Net that
provide information and ideas about gardens
and gardening, small farming, plants, soils, animals in the garden, weather zones, trees,
shrubs, flowers, landscape
design, garden art, organic gardening, arts and crafts, parks, ecophilosophy,
conservation, forests, ecology, and
many related subjects; and this Net guide includes a few of the key websites on these
topics.
New sites to add?
Suggestions?
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
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Allotmenent and Garden Guides. Ministry of Agriculture, United Kingdon. 8 Pamphlets. 1945
Botany and Plant Science Books
Brooklyn Botanical Garden Green Pages
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Earthly Pursuits - Old Books Online
The Evolution of Horticulture in New England. By Daniel Denison Slade. 1895
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan. F. H. King. 1919
The Flowers Personified. JJ Grandville. 1847.
Growing Literature Connections
Handi Links: Books - Gardening
Herbs and Herb Gardening: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. By Suzanne DeMuth. Excellent!
History of Gardening Timeline. Includes references to many books and links to history of gardening sites.
Internet Directory for Botany: Journals, Books, Literature Databases, Publishers
Missouri Botanical Gardens: Online Books and Publications
The Growing Season By Joyce Schillen
The Origin of the Species. By Charles Darwin
Neil Sperry Author, radio show host, and a fine Texas gardener.
The Angelgrove Tree Seed Company
Quality seeds for flowering trees, shade and Japanese trees as well as
seeds for hardy shrub roses.
Cyndi's Catalog of Garden
Catalogs Prepared by Cyndi Johnson. Over 1900 Catalogs as
5/2001.
Systematically updated.
Landscape Architecture Virtual Library
New Plant Page A New Ornamentals Society Resource. A pointer to electronic resources.
Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve Botanical.Com 800 varieties of herbs and plants.
Time-Life Searchable Garden Encyclopedia
Hort Soft: The Ultimate Garden Tool by Mary Bolock.
The Virtual Garden A very useful and well organized site.
Encyclopedias
Glossary of Botanical Terms (Garden Web)
Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (Garden Gate)
Horticultural Directory of the National Gardening Association
Sierra Home Plant Encyclopedia
Time-Life Gardening Encyclopedia
Locate your USDA Zone.
Agriculture Index by
Yahoo
Award Winning Garden Links
Directory of Gardening and Agricultural Mailing Lists An excellent and extensive directory!!
Ethics - Environment and Nature - Yahoo Links
The Best Garden Pages on GeoCities
Catalogs for Free!!
Farmer's Guide to the Internet
Garden Digest Links Stronger on links to poetry, quotes, essays, magazines and newspapers, humor, and literary aspects of gardens and gardening.
Garden Gate "The Garden Gate offers gardeners and nature lovers a carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world. So if you enjoy plants, either in the garden or in nature, stop on by, the gate is open!"
Gardenscape An extensive collection of links.
The Garden Spot - Great Garden Links
Garden Literature on the Net Stronger on links to poetry, quotes, essays, magazines and newspapers, humor, and literary aspects of gardens and gardening
The Gardening Launch Pad 2669+ Links. A huge harvest of Net gardening sites. Well organized by 58 categories. Definitely worth a bookmark!!
Gardening Links - The WWW Virtual Library - Garden Web
Gardens Galore Huge list of annotated links and information on many non-Net nurseries.
Garden Tools: Quotes, Links, References
GeoCities Garden Page Award Winners
Gothic Gardening Something Wicked This Way Grows. mAlice's gardening notes are Wonderful!!
Haiku Poetry: Links, References, Resources, Publications
Handi Links: Gardening, Landscaping
Home Garden Design by Garden Tree
Internet Directory for Botany: All Links
Internet Directory for Botany: Arbortea and Botanical Gardens On-line
Lee's On the Brink Gardening Links A very useful collection of annotated links.
Mining Company Garden Guide Deborah Simpson, Gardening Guide
MyThing Links. An
Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales
& Folklore,
Sacred Arts & Traditions. By Kathleen Jenks.
Neighborhood's Gardening Launch Pad
Rainie's Links Art and Home Improvement Links
Spirit of Gardening. Over 2,000 quotes, poems, and sayings about gardening.
Web Garden Ohio State University
Where I'ts At: An Agricultural and Gardening Index
The Tree Guide: The Natural History of Trees Facts on 800 kinds of trees, tree care, news, science, links.
A Very Small Eden: Collection of Links A very nice collection of informative sites.
Columns, Articles
Daybooks and Memoirs of Carl H. Klaus
Dulcy Mahar's Gardening Articles from the Oregonian Newspaper
From the Ground Up: Gardening Essays, Poems, Book Reviews, Links.
Gardening With Soul is both the collection of the articles written by Teresa
Watkins as
well as her personal philosophy regarding gardening and landscaping
Gertrude Jekyll - Roses for English Gardens, 1902, On-line Text
Haiku Poetry: Links, References, Resources, Publications
The Philosophy and Art of Gardening
On the Interpretation of Garden Observations
The Red Bluff Noteboooks Zone 9. Red Bluff, California.
Tenemos - The Sanctuary of Imagination
Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, Of Gardening. By Sir William Temple, 1685.
The Vine Articles by Carla Allen for Nova Scotia newspapers.
The Wise Farmer By Stanley Wise, Jr., Alcorn County Agent, Mississippi
Murder Mysteries in the Garden
Directory of Gardening and Agricultural Mailing Lists An excellent and extensive directory!!
The Garden Party. Courtesy of Garden Web.
Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny
The WWW Virtual Library: Museums
Annual Calendars - Home and Garden
Adventures in Gardening with the Garden Guy: David Soper
City Farmer - Urban Agriculture
Cooking.Com
Extensive selection of quality cooking products.
Digitalseed: A Southern California Gardening Resource
The Electric Library Your Source for Current Information.
Garden.Com: Information, Advice, Products
Gardener's Paradise: A Gardening Extravaganza Tips, calendars, quotes, ideas, links, information ... Fascinating!
The Garden Spot: A Growing Website
The Garden Zone at Shelly's Place A fine selection of quotes and quips, seed swapping, and links.
Gardening For Kids Take a look at the Lake Java applet - stunning!
Gardening Information from Oregon State University
The Gardening Sutra: Pulling Onions . By Michael P. Garofalo. 115kb+.
Green Thumb Corner Horn's Home and Garden, North Carolina
Guia Verde Spanish
Home Garden Design by Garden Tree
Landscape Architecture Virtual Library
Mining Company Garden Guide Deborah Simpson, Gardening Guide
National Gardening Association
TreeLink An outstanding web site. It is well organized and
provides information, news, forums,
a bibliography, volunteer opportunities, articles, tree guides, job
listings, and over 1,800 links.
"This site was created to provide information, research, and
networking for people working in
urban and community forestry. For the researcher, the arborist, the
community group leader,
the volunteer-our purpose is to inform, educate, and inspire."
Presented by Pepper Provenzano.
Web Garden: Horticulature and Crop Science in Virtual Perspective Ohio State University
Photographs, Clipart, Drawings,
Illustrations, Artwork
Audubon Watercolors of North American Birds
Backgrounds and Bars by Cynthia
California Plants and Habitats. By CalPhotos, UC Berkeley. Over 16,000 images of California Plants.
Debbie's Garden of Graphics A nice collection of free graphics, borders, dividers, etc. Thanks Debbie!!
Electronic Herbarium This site contains samples of scientific, botanical illustrations of wildflowers from the Pacific Northwest.
Environmental Clip Art. Provided by Patricia A. Michaels. Some nice animated .gifs, borders, and artwork.
Floral
Radiographs: The Secret Garden Albert Richards, University of Michigan
Professor Emeritus, has been creating floral
radiographs for over 40 years.
Flowers Pat's Web Graphics
Flowerbase 6,000 images.
Free Clip Art - Gardening - From the Mining Company
Gardening Graphics Collection Film Strip
Julie's Homegrown Graphics - Photo-graphics of plants, critters, and scenes.
Internet Directory for
Botany Images Excellent index to sites with botanical
images!! Provided by the Botanical
Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural
History.
National Plant Photographic Index - Australia
Nature's Best Masked Flower Images Garden images for photo landscape design programs; plant encyclopedia.
Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
Texas Agricultural Extension Clip Art Collection
Web Garden Ohio State University 3,400 images
A World Community of Old Trees An Eco-Art Project in Progress by June Julian. Nice collections of artwork.
The American Horticultural Therapy Association
The City Farmer: Horticultural Therapy
Health, Gardening and Cooking Magazines. Save from 20% to 60%.
Susan Tomlin's Gardening for Disabled Persons
Biodynamic and Organic Gardening Resource Site
Center for Urban Horticulture - University of Washington
The Dirt Gardener's Gardening Journal By Buzz Bertolero. San Francisco.
The Electric Library has the Information You Need!
The Environment. With Patricia Michaels. Good information, news, and lots of links.
Free Catalogs!!
Garden California A very nice monthly chores guide for California gardeners.
Garden.Com: Infomation and Advice
Garden Vivaio (Italian)
Go For Green Many informative articles.
Maureen Gilmer's Landscape Garden Forum Noted author on California Gardening. Website has outstanding notes on western gardening catalogs and nurseries. "Maureen Gilmer is California's most widely published landscaping author and the nation's foremost writer concerning serious issues facing today's homeowner and gardener."
Half-Barrel Pond Page Useful information for simple water gardens.
Mediterranean Climate Gardening Heidi Gildemesiter
The Ohio State and Virginia Tech Plant Dictionary
Organic Gardening from Down Under (David and and Kay Heaton)
Plant Information Online University of Minnesota, Anderson Horticultural Library
Purdue University (Indiana) Extension Garden Tips
Something Wicked This Way Grows: Gothic Gardening mAlice's gardening notes are Wonderful!!
Sprinkler's That Fertilize Information, products, links, tips and tricks.
Web Garden Ohio State University
The Wise Gardener: Tropical and sub-tropical gardening information. Stong on palms and cactus.
Yglecia's Gardening Tips from a Master Gardener in Arizona
Cuttings. By Michael P. Garofalo.
Diary of a Mad Gardener By David Hobson
Lindley Karstens' Garden Diaries
My Garden Notebook A writing tool.
The Red Bluff Notebooks. Zone 9. Red Bluff, California.
A Small Irish Garden Elizabeth Law's garden in Dublin, Ireland. Zone 8. Tips, diary, links, cats, ideas.
Paul Stanbridge's Farm in England
Tina's Garden Links, diary, articles, poetry, pets, faeries.
Florida Yards and Neighborhoods - Gardening - Garden Goodies
Flowers of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (Garden Gate)
Mystical World Wide Web: Plants, Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
The Search for the Green Man By Mike Harding.
Weather Lore from the Weekend Gardener
Journals, Newsletters, E-Zines
Agriculture and Human Values Journal
The Amateur's Digest: Cactus, Succulents
The American Naturalist Journal
Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Science and Science Journals
County Lifestyle, Home, Handiman, and Gardening Magazines. Save from 20% to 60%.
Countryside Magazine and Small Stock Journal
East Coast Gardener For the Canadian Atlantic Provinces.
From the Ground Up: Gardening Essays, Poems, Book Reviews, Links.
The Garden Magazine.
An on-line magazine for gardeners of all ages and abilities. Along with
articles and information,
they also aim to provide a forum for gardeners to share their achievements, ideas and
experiences.
Garden Magazine Index from the News Directory
Garden Magazine of the Month Club
Gardening News and Magazines Index
Gardening, Home, Handiman, and Cooking Magazines. Save from 20% to 60%.
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, The Garden
Mediterranean Garden Society Journal
National Council of State Garden Clubs Magazine: National Gardener
The New Plantsman (Royal Horticultural Society)
Northern Gardening Useful articles, links to relevant sites, FAQs for gardeners in northern climates.
The Orchid Review (Royal Horticultural Society)
Organic Gardening Magazine Rodale Press
People, Places and Plants Magazine Maine
The Practical Gardener Newsletter
The Professional Gardener's Guild
Small Farms Newsletter - University of California at Davis
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, formerly the Journal of Garden History
Traditional Gardening Restoration and preservation of classic gardens.
Vegetarian, Cooking and Health Magazines. Save from 20% to 60%.
Television ... Radio ... Videos ... Newspapers ... Magazines
A. C. Burke and Company. Gardening Videos.
Better Homes and Gardens Television
Gardens of the World. Video Series. Narrated by Audrey Hepburn.
Penelope Hobhouse: The Art and Practice of Gardening. Video Series. 4 hours.
Hillsborough House Gardening Videos
Home and Garden Television Online
Breaking Ground. Frances
"Sisso" Doyle and John Knox
The Designer's Landscape. Gary Allen
Gardening by the Yard. Paul James.
The Gardener's Journal. Kathy Renwald.
Grow It. Jeff Cox.
Rebecca's Garden. Rebecca Kolls.
Howard Garrett Radio The Dirt Doctor
The Private Life of Plants, with David Attenborough. Video Series. 5 hours.
Rebecca's Garden Rebecca Kolls.
The Victory Garden.
Hosted by Roger Swain. 23 Seasons on PBS - TV.
Mr. Swain is the author of numerous
books and the science editor for Horticulture Magazine.
Black Thumb Bob's Gardening Tips and Humor
Tom Clothier's Garden Walk and Talk
Come Into My Toolshed (Tom H. Robb, Texas Master Gardener)
The Garden House Webring Wander About in Over 435 websites: love, romance, gentleness, healing, family.
Garden Notebook of
Duane Reading
Garden of Weeden Pacific
Northwest
Garden Pages From Medford, Oregon: short articles, links, photos.
Gardening as An Anarchist Plot
Lee's Garden Resources. Gardens, canning, sheep, chickens, hoemsteading on 8 acres, and a nice family.
The Nature of Our Garden A delightful and very entertaining tour of a backyard garden in Hollister, California.
Northern Pond Gardens tour, journals, art gallery, and lots of links. Excellent!
Elaine's Page Poetry for the holidays, seasons, and special occasions.
Haiku and Zen Poetry: Links, Bibliography, Guides and Studies
Quotes for Gardeners An extensive collection of quotes on a variety of themes of interest to gardeners.
A Link Exchange Section for Businesses
Arborsmith Studios Arborsculpture, living garden art.
Avant Gardening - Growing
Creatively
Australian Nurseries Online
Index Information about products and services grouped by 14 categories.
Organized by eplants: Syndey's Online Nursery.
Central Florida Yards and Neighborhoods
Garden Art Man - Rusty
Metal Garden Art
Home and Garden Zone Free
projects, fun, and products.
Just Binoculars Offering name brand binoculars, spotting
scopes and rangefinders for all uses including hunting, boating, horse racing,
traveling, vacationing, trips to Alaska and birding along with an extensive
buying guide to help make shopping easy.
The Lawnmower Shop:
The Best Online Source for Lawn and Garden Equipment, Tillers, Wood
Chippers,
Grass Trimmers, and More! Free Shipping to 48 States.
My Shade Garden
By Rebecca Green.
Nicky's Nursery -
Hanging Baskets, seeds, patio plants, cards, container gardening.
Garden.Com: Information and Products
Rittenhouse Garden Tools,
Sprayers, Landscape Equipment and Parts
The Spirit of Gardening website has
provided quotations, poems, sayings,
epigrams, and quips for gardeners, farmers, and Lovers of the Green Way
since January 1, 1999. It is the largest website of its kind, and it has been
available free on the World Wide Web the longest. The website has served
up over 4 million webpages to readers around the world - without banners,
ads, or commercial messages. Gardeners, readers, writers, and webmasters
have used these quotes and ideas about gardening for inspiration, reflection,
and pleasure. Numerous websites have used many of these quotes in new
and creative ways to encourage others to follow the Green Way. Finally,
I have tried to make my own contributions to the literature in my
Pulling Onions and Cuttings.
askSam's Quotes On Line
A huge collection of quotes arranged by 558 Topics.
Developed by Keith
D. Mohler.
Aspirennies by Katharena Eiermann
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Betsy's Garden Poems and Quotations
Bible Quotes About Respect for Creation
Cool Quotes By Jim Harget.
The Computational Beauty of Nature
Creative Quotations
Creativity: foraging, reflecting, adopting, nuturing, and knuckling down.
Quotes arranged by the birthdays of the authors.
Cuttings Haiku and Zen poetry by Michael P. Garofalo.
Daily Quote about Gardening A nice way to get daily quotes in your mailbox or a service at your website.
Ecology Quotes A short selection of quotes and numerous links about renewable energy.
Eco- Quotes Eco-Mall is a full featured website.. It has a collection of short quotes on conservation.
Elaine's Page Poems, quotes, and stories arranged by holidays.
Encouraging, Motivitating and Inspiring Quotations and Excerpts
English-Romanian Dictionary of Proverbs
Encouraging Quotes and Excerpts
Favorite Gardening Quotations By Hilda M. Morrill, Boston Gardens.
Felicitous Quotations Collected by Terry Morse
Garden Humor The Mad Gardener: David Hobson. T-Shirt slogans, contest entries .... and much more.
Garden Quotes An extensive collection of quotes on a variety of themes of interest to gardeners.
Garden Quotes Scores of one line quotes and quips. Delightful.
Garden Sayings - All Craft Gardens
Garden Sayings. Compiled by Barbara M. Martin.
Gardening
Quotations - Think Quest It was my pleasure to help and encourage the European
students that worked on this Think Quest Gardening Project.
Gardening Quotes: A Gardener's Paradise
The Garden Spot: A Growing Website
The Garden Zone at Shelly's Place A fine selection of quotes and quips, seed swapping, and links.
Garden Design - PPR Garden Quotes
Gardening Poems Index - The Gay Gardener
Gay Gardener Quotes, poems, history, forum, information, graphics. 24 wepages of quotations.
Happiness Scores of definitons of 'happiness'.
Instant Wisdom Links to lots of quotation pages.
International Vegetarian Union Quotations
Kathi's Garden Inspirational themes, quotes, recipes.
Land of Quotes An extensive collection with database query access.
LitQuotes: Hundreds of Literary Quotes,
Quotations from Literature
Little
Sayings Over 2,500 sayings organized by 158 categories. Complied by
Deanie.
Love Quotes:
Love, Passion, Romance, Desire ....
The Maxims of Gardening By Mike Garofalo.
Meanings and Origins of Phrases - The Phrase Finder
Months - Quotes, Poems, Links, Lore and Garden Chores
Murphy's Laws ... and many other humorous corollaries and Interdisciplinary Laws
One Liners and Proverbs A large collection with a Christian emphasis.
The Other Pages Maintained by Steve Spanoudis. Quotes, poetry, graphics, travel.
Parks and Gardens: The Never Ending Quest for Beauty and Harmony A Think Quest Student Project.
The Philosophy Garden: Epicurus and Lucretius
Plants - Children's Songs and Poems
De Proverbio - Electronic Journal
PPR Gardens (Pleasant Park Road Gardens)
Proverbs from the Ancient Egyptian Temples
Pulling Onions. By Mike Garofalo.
Quotable Quotes All quotes about gardening.
Quotation Archive by Topic By Jeff Shepherd. A huge ascii.txt collection of quotes.
Quotations - Compiled by Roy Gallagher
Quotations for Backyard Naturalists
Quotations: Nature, Seasons, Beauty
Quotations on Environment and Nature
Quotations - The Ability Project
The Quote Garden
Many of the gardening quotations on this very large website are acknowledged
to have been
found first at the Spirit of Gardening website. The Quote Garden has a very wide
scope and is well worth a visit.
Quotes about Life, the Universe, and Everything.
The Quotes and Sayings Database
Quotes for Gardeners The largest collection of quotes on a variety of themes of interest to gardeners.
Quotes Through the Ages, Quotes for the Surfer, Eastern Philosophy
Rainbow Garden - Inspirational Stories
Search for English Proverbs and Sayings
Shelly's Garden Quips and Quotes An extensive multi-page collection of short quotes, sayings, quips, slogans.
A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
The Spirit of Gardening Over 2,000 quotations for lovers of the Green Way.
Surf Point Index to Sources for Quotations
Thought For Today Collection Archive
Turning Earth: From a Small Yorkshire Garden A beautiful website.
Word Origins - Ask About the Origins and Meaning of Words at the Word Wizard
World Wide Wisdom
Professor Singer's collection of quotes. A very good selection proverbs
from Africa and musings on education.
Bookworm: County Living Gardener
From the Ground Up. Book Reviews by Amy Stewart.
Garden Literature Review by Sally Williams
Gardening For Grounding to Mother Earth
Haiku Poetry: Links, References, Resources, Publications
Gardening and Spirituality - Quotes for Gardeners
Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray. Very interesting Links section, outstanding bibliography,
and fine photographs.
Rainbow Garden - Inspirational Stories
Religion - Quotations for Gardeners
Spirituality and Religion Links Fine links selected by Steve Schlarb.
Spirituality, New Age, and Religion Magazines. Save from 20% to 60%.
Soul of the Garden Photographs, ideas, observations, and links from Tom Spencer, host of West Texas Gardener on KLRU, and Greenthumb Hour on radio.
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu: Jim Clatfelter's Interpretation.
Tao Te Ching Translations: Shrine of Wisdom Another
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Pulling
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Haiku Poetry - Links and References
Cliches for Gardeners and Farmers
The
History of Gardening Timeline
From
Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Short Poems and Haiku by Michael P. Garofalo
Quotes for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A
Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many
of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled
by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Green Way Research
Indexed by Michael P. Garofalo
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