Plant Knowledge

• Bookstores have shelves filled with gardening books
  and magazines.
• Libraries and nationwide Cooperative Extension Offices which are free to the public.
• Gardening forums, clubs, blogs and newsletters.

Plant and Garden Website Resources

United States Department of Agriculture
The Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database provides standardized information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens in the U.S.

United States Department of Agriculture - Cooperative Extension System
Use this site to locate the office in your area. Many regional offices also have websites. They're a great source of information about horticulture, plant breeding, integrated pest management (IPM), invasive species, lawn care, organic gardening, pesticides, and 
agriculture in general. Many locations also provide soil testing.

Plant Names
Created to help home gardener's learn how to pronounce and understand the true
names of plants.

Cornell University - Department of Animal Science
Poisonous Plants Informational Database. Includes plant images, pictures of affected
animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora

Fine Gardening
Use their Plant Guide to lookup facts. They also have an audible Pronunciation
Guide. This is really great. You select the plant name and hear an actual person
speak the latin name.

Dave's Garden
PlantFiles plant identification database. This site is packed with a lot of great resources.

Hosta Library
Photo database specific to Hostas.

The Garden Helper
Gardening tips and advice for the beginner and veteran gardener. Includes Garden
Guides to create, maintain, and cultivate a variety of home garden styles. Learn about
vegetable gardening, butterfly and bird gardens, shade gardening, rock gardens etc.
Plant Guides help you understand how to grow and care for hundreds of different
perennial and annual plants and flowers as well as fruits and vegetables.

GardenWeb
The Internet's garden and home community. The HortiPlex Database will give you information on a specific plant.

Missouri Botanical Garden
They have a database called TROPICOS - the world's largest database of plant information.

WebGarden Plantfacts
Plantfacts is a database hosted by Ohio State University .

GardenGuides.com
Plant database with thousands of species of plants including flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, weeds, lichens, moss, ferns and many
others. Loads of information on everything gardening: plants, pests, supplies, tools,
tips and techniques, seeds and bulbs, nurseries and landscapers, and more.

Clematis on the Web
Everything you want to know about Clematis.

In The Garden with Maria Cinque
The resources page has lots of helpful information. Some specific links for those of you that garden in the New York area. Look around the rest of the site for articles, tips, and events.

American Horticultural Society
The site is filled with great information. For plant research go to the “Internet Community and Links” page and take a look at the “Specific Plants by Category” section.

Gerbera.org
The official website of the Gerbera Association: all you want to know about this popular cut flower, the Gerbera daisy: growing, care, seeds, diseases and cures.

Home and Garden Articles
Expert articles on home and garden topics.

The Garden Hotline
Hosted by Ralph Snodsmith of the Garden Hotline® radio program. You can submit your gardening questions on the Q&A page of his website.

Carolina Gardener's Plant Directory
This virtual plant directory contains more that 10,000 plants.

Information and Tips on Gardening
Gardening basics to get any gardener off to a good start, including evaluating a site, selecting healthy plants and analyzing the soil. Grow the best vegetable garden you can with ideas on vegetable varieties increasing the harvest from your vegetable garden and organic pest control.