Resources for Specific Types of Gardens

Garden and Hearth
Receive landscaping ideas, such as jazzing up your garden with color or the benefits of cultivating climbing plants. Learn how to "express your style" in the garden. Read about the proper running of trees and shrubs.

Garden Supply: Advice, Ideas and Tips
This useful site will provide gardners with advice on which supplies, plants and tools you'll need to create your own backyard paradise. In addition, you'll get special tips on decorating gardens with birdhouses, patio accessories, fountains and even garden supplies. Do you want to learn how to grow the best tomatoes ever? How about reading about the special benefits of composting? This site has it all, in an easy-to-read format

Southern Illinois/Indiana Gardening Tips
The gardening tips on this page are tailored to Southern Illinois, Southwest Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southeast Missouri. For instance, people in that area will learn about slug control, fall crops, perennials, cool-weather annuals, and planting perennial seed. The Waterman and Hill Traveller's Companion puts out the information on this interesting gardening site. Check out other sections such as, moon gardening, fishing almanac, cougar watch and the archive.

Plants for the Western Garden
This site is chock full of information about gardening in the West. High Country Gardens features information from experts, tips on how to plant a low-care lawn, internet specials on products. This site's specialty is Xeriscape gardens. You'll find gardening tips a newsletter you can subscribe to and tons of other information. Don't know what xeriscape gardening is? Check out the principles of Xeriscaping and you'll learn that xeriscaping is creating a garden that doesn't rely heavily on water. Xeriscape comes from the Greek word xeri, which means dry. Peruse this site and learn more about this interesting environmentally aware concept.

Canada Garden Guide
This Canadian government website will keep you posted on useful gardening innovations, ideas and techniques to help make gardening fun during the growing and harvesting season. For instance, you can learn about soil preparation, dormant sprays, starting seeds inside, pruning trees, composting, the herb garden, renovating overgrown shrubs, mums for Mother's Day, black knot, clematis, low maintenance landscaping and a long list of other topics. This site is an extremely useful resource and is worth a look or two, or three!