Category: Garden Queries

Title: The Butterfly House URL: The Butterfly House at Missouri Botanical Garden Detail: This is an attraction in Chesterfield, Missouri. The site offers beautiful pictures of butterflies and information on Butterfly Gardening. Also includes a Plant of the Month.

Title: Clean Air Gardening URL: https://www.cleanairgardening.com/ Detail: This is an environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies site. You can buy push reel mowers, rain barrels, garden gnomes and all sorts of gadgets.

Title: Cossey Botanical Park Arboretum, Fredericksburg, VA URL: http://www.plantsmap.com/organizations/cossey-botanical-park-arboretum Detail: The arboretum was installed by our Stafford Cooperative Extension and is maintained by the our master gardener (MGACRA) chapter.

Title: Digital Diagnostics Image Database URL: Oklahoma State University insect and plant disease database Detail: Another easy to use site with information on insects and plant diseases. Quite an extensive database.

Title: Eco-Gardening URL: http://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/ Detail: What a place to visit!! This place has an e-mail service for timely tips. It has Gardening Guides, Fact Sheets on Eco-Gardening, MG links and a link for year round plant activities for people with special needs. A clear, concise, easy to use and has great pictures. Just start at… Continue reading Eco-Gardening

Title: Encyclopedia of Plants URL: https://www.gardenguides.com/ Detail: An easy to use directory of plants makes this site “friendly”. It also has very good drawings and pictures of plants including a directory of leaf shapes. Would be very useful if you needed simple but accurate illustrations for teaching purposes.

Title: Exotic Gardening URL: https://www.exoticgardening.com/ Detail: This website professes to be “The ultimate website for the truly obsessed plant-a-holic”. Includes The Plant Man, Glick Pick of the Week, new product updates and a Garden Encyclopedia.

Title: Extension Publications URL: https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/ Detail: Educational Programs and Resources. This will link you to printer-friendly copies of publications from Virginia Tech. You can also link to the Pest Management Guide from here.

Title: Flora of Virginia Project URL: http://floraofvirginia.org/ Detail: The first flora since Flora Virginica, published in the mid-1700s. Published in 2012, it is a 1,400-page, state-of-the-art manual describing and aiding in the identification of 3,500 taxa of plants native to Virginia or naturalized here. Since publication, more plants have been added. Recently a Flora App… Continue reading Flora of Virginia Project

Title: Garden Forever URL: http://www.gardenforever.com/ Detail: Another great site for Horticultural therapy, senior and children’s gardening. “Gardening for people of all ages, abilities and lifestyles.”