More Gardening Websites
From the author of comes this handy list of plants with categories such as those that are heavy shade tolerant, those that require frequent division, etc.
Photos and extensive information on northern wildflowers and their habitat.
From North Norway, 200 km north of the arctic circle comes over 105 photos and over 450 descriptions of perennials.
Garden and yard care factsheets from Minnesota’s Bachman Garden Center
A great site to get ideas for your own northern garden!
Charlotte grows over 285 different varieties of daylilies in her southern Quebec gardens.
Tom starts over 1700 plants from seed every year. His articles are very entertaining and instructive.
Kathy Purdy started this collaborative blog for cold climate gardeners from novice to master.
: Whether you are a hunter, an angler, or a concerned parent, they are working with you to protect the Minnesota you love.
Daisy Moore is a garden designer living in Toronto and her webpage has a lot of good gardening tips and articles.
Evy McGinness (also known as Emily Compost) passed away on July 15, 2004, but her website is still up dispensing her
down-to-earth inspiration to gardeners everywhere.
Wonderful photos of a real English cottage garden…growing in Alaska!
Everything about arachnids, bees, bugs, spiders and wasps.
Want to know about vegies–it’s there. Flowers? It’s there. Lawn care? Yup. You will find it all at this site.
From Great Britain comes a charming webpage that will make most northern gardeners ill–only because we can’t grow most of the plants in Chrissie Harten’s gardens! Lots of
wonderful photos of her gardens in progress.
Guides on a variety of gardening subjects.
A very informative site from a fellow garden writer.
Articles on a variety of subjects of interest to all gardeners.
A great collection of plant photos, also garden news and lots of good links.
From St. Albert, Alberta Canada, a good resource for all northern gardeners.
Okay I am Irish, but I still think this is a fascinating pictorial history of how an Irish gardener transformed her cottage garden.
Ilona gardens in central Ohio and I know you’ll enjoy her enthusiasm for gardening.
Everything you ever wanted to know about installing your own irrigation system.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has put together an excellent woody plants resource for those in zones 3, 4 and 5.
We wish we didn’t have to think about insect pests, but unfortunately it is a fact of life…it is us or them. Lots of good factsheets on least-toxic pest control from aphids to yellowjackets.
Mary (Moosey) gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand and her son has perfectly captured her enthusiasm for gardening in this truly exceptional website.
A plant selection and identification site from our own Minnesota Dept. of Transportation.
Beautiful garden photos from the lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada.
Mary Schier has a very entertaining blog where she talks about her experiences as a northern gardener, garden writer and editor of magazine.
Articles on a variety of subjects such as gardening for wildlife and a page with gardening “news.”
Canadian Jim Kohut, a fellow columnist, has created a wonderful gathering place on the web for northern landscapers and gardeners.
Organic Gardening…the magazine.
A garden writer in Alaska shares her articles on organic gardening .
From Maureen and Glen Lee in Regina, SK, Canada comes their collection of over 1600 photos of northern plants and flowers.
Leonard P. Perry is an Extension Professor at the University of Vermont.
Landscaping to be lower-maintenance.
: This website makes it easy to get to all the University of Minnesota horticultural information on the Web.
Plant photos with descriptions and beautiful garden pics.