May 16, 2006
| Botanic Gardens and Societies, | |
| The Royal Horticultural Society - gateway to gardening - the World's leading horticultural organisation. | |
| RHS Plant Selector - this superb new facility allows you to select garden plants that fit your own specified requirements. By selecting the attributes of the plants that you are looking for and the conditions in your garden from the drop-down menus, this database driven service will provide you with a list of plants matching your needs. | |
| The Alpine Garden Society - for everyone interested in all aspects of alpines, small hardy plants and bulbs. | |
| The Scottish Rock Garden Club - excellent web site with a great deal of high quality information. | |
| The Meconopsis Group - access to information, plants, seed exchange, trips to the Himalayas, Tibet and China. | |
| British Clematis Society - an excellent resource on this popular genus. | |
| International Clematis Society - another similar quality resource. | |
| Belgian Hydrangea Society - including details of the International Hydrangea Conference 16-19 August 2007, Ghent University Botanical Garden, Belgium. | |
| Cottage Garden Society - members, both amateur and professional, share their experience in 'The Cottage Gardener' quarterly magazine - also an annual seed distribution. | |
| Hardy Plant Society - specializes in herbaceous perennials. It runs rare-plant sales and a 'gardening by post' scheme if you can't get along to your local group. | |
| The Peony Society - established in 2000 to promote peonies as garden plants and bring together people who have a passion for these plants. | |
| British Fuchsia Society - details on tender and hardy fuchsias (not all of the site available to non-members). | |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - a wide range of information on horticulture from the academic scientific and world-wide conservation topics through to shopping facilities. | |
| The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh - World leading Botanic Garden. | |
| Chelsea Physic Garden - one of Britain's important historic gardens. | |
| The National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin - expeditions to the Far East and a magnificent refurbishment have made Ireland's botanic gardens rival the best. | |
| The Birmingham Botanical Gardens - a long standing Botanic Garden which has strong emphasis on education and facilities for the public. | |
| Lakeland Horticultural Society's world famous gardens at Holehird - maintained entirely by volunteers - something to be emulated. | |
| The American Rhododendron Society - a useful search facility giving descriptions and photographs of species and hybrids. | |
| The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne - A 'must' to visit if you are in Melbourne Australia. | |
| Kirstenboch Botanical Garden - the source of 28 gold-medal-winning displays of Cape flowers at Chelsea Floer Show - Kirstenboch is South Africa's Kew. | |
| The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens - The World's leading Cultivated Plant Conservation Charity (NCCPG). | |
| The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) - database of names of all seed plants. | |
| Ohio State University Horticulture Crop Science. | |
| Edmond Community College - Horticultural Course with some good information and photographs on a wide range of genera. | |
| The Rock Gardeners Last Resort - can't find the information you want, look here (database driven resources). | |
| Eden Project - now well established - where in Cornwall disused clay pit quarries have been turned into the World's largest conservatories. They are an organisation working with partners in Development, the Environment, Industry and Science, creating a new Foundation to explore and champion an understanding of the interdependence of people and plants. | |
| The Garden History Society - promoting the study of the history of gardening, protection and conservation and the creation of gardens in general. | |
| The Museum of Garden History - 'Repatriating the Ark' - runs until 30 October 2006 at the Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1. | |
| Plants online - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have launched a website aimed at broadening the knowledge of South Asian plants. | |
| Thrive - a national charity which uses gardening as a way to help people with all kinds of disabilities. It runs hands-on gardening weekends and road shows around the country, teaching practical skills to help people who have become disabled to continue gardening or even to take it up for the first time. It also provides advice, backed up by a quarterly magazine and a large lending library of gardening books on tape and in other formats, such as large print and Braille. | |
| Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) - even though not a 'gardening' site, this is a very important source of information on plants in the UK. | |
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| General Gardening | |
| An Australian 'MyGarden', which has a different approach to this 'version'. This is a wonderful resource of a wide range of gardening topics. Really worth a look and more! | |
| The Good Web Guide - an excellent resource for information of what is available on the net, updated and essential. | |
| Coolexotics.com is dedicated to subtropical, tropical, and more generally, exotic-looking plants. Exotic plants, many of which can live in cold places, are presented in the database section. A new plant description is added every few days. Exotic-enthusiasts can also discuss in the forum section. | |
| Plants & Japan - what a wonderful portal to information on plants in this biodiverse country. Created By Masashi Yamaguchi. | |
| The Beauty of the Japanese Garden - full of information about the Japanese Garden, its history over the centuries and its present day developments. | |
| Bonsai Network Japan - if you want an authentic Japanese garden in your yard, this is the website to visit. | |
| LetsGoGardening - web portal - as a useful means of finding general information on a wide range of horticultural topics. | |
| A new web portal directory. Garden4less which is becoming one of the most comprehensive listings of garden related resources on the internet. | |
| How to be a gardener - excellent BBC online Alan Titchmarch course | |
| PlantAmnesty - or how not to prune trees and shrubs! | |
| Garden Digest - Lots of links to all sorts of fascinating sites - good sources of quotations. | |
| Ideas for gardens - an excellent site including the Ideas Genie - a database software for plant lovers. | |
| www.shrubs.co.uk - an useful portal for general horticulture. | |
| Anything 4 Gardening - an excellent informational site primarily for zone 6. | |
| The Alpine Garden - rock gardening on the net - excellent site | |
| Alpines for the Enthusiast - lots of information about alpine plants and the Alpine Garden Society. | |
| www.debbysgardenlinks.co.uk - one of the UK's most comprehensive gardening links sites. | |
| Roger Phillips - renowned horticultural author, photographer and presenter runs two websites, one on roses, the other mushrooms. | |
| Otter Farm Olive Grove - see what happens! Mark Diacono - 'the infrequent farmer'. | |
| Painshill Park, Surrey - restoration of a 1740s vineyard. | |
| Chihuly At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | |
| The Gardeners Almanac - what to do and when. | |
| RHS Plant Bulletin Publications - get the latest information on well researched garden genera. | |
| Square Foot Gardening - No Work, Simple & Easy, Organic, Raised Garden Beds - no excuse for not having a garden! | |
| Fine Gardening's Guide to Pronouncing Botanical Latin - a really useful site. | |
| JapanGarden.co.uk takes pride in offering the finest high quality and authentic Japanese and Oriental products available. | |
| Shoot for growing gardeners - a new concept conceived by Nicola Gammon, a 'self-taught' gardener who wanted a simpler way to approach the planting and care of her own garden, shoot is your gardening resource. Here you will find the tools to help you create and manage your own garden without the need of heavy reference books. | |
| SafeLawns.org - a broad-based coalition of non- and for-profit organizations committed to educating society about the benefits of organic lawn care and gardening, and affecting a quantum change in consumer and industry behaviour (American). Read the article on Garden Rant and you can see why in this country we are behind the times! | |
| Gardening Resources - online help from Cornell University - good general resource - RHS take note! | |
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| Garden Magazines, Plants for sale, Online Gardening Shops | |
| The Plantsman - sister publication of the RHS 'The Garden' - the publication for high quality articles on the latest in unusual plants. | |
| Plants Magazine - Excellent information on the latest of what is unusual in horticultural plants. | |
| The BBC Gardens Illustrated has a website which complements their excellent gardening magazine. | |
| Garden Web - the Internet's Garden Community - there is also an European section to this very comprehensive horticultural site. | |
| RHS Nursery Finder - handy to find nurseries and what they grow in a particular region of the UK. | |
| Horticulture magazine has been the authoritative voice of gardening, providing inspiration, instruction, and entertainment for passionate gardeners. Celebrating the simple pleasures of growing plants and creating gardens, Horticulture serves as an indispensable guide and trusted friend, a primary resource for avid gardeners from every corner of the USA. | |
| Garden Heaven - Garden Heaven is Ireland's premier gardening and garden lifestyle magazine for all garden enthusiasts who love features, news and plant photography of a global standard. One of the best! | |
| Specialist nurseries | |
| Crûg Farm Plants - an amazing selection of rare and unusual specialist shade tolerant plants. Most are collected new introductions from South East Asia and elsewhere (mail order now), are unique and cannot be obtained elsewhere. A trip to this nursery in a wonderful part of the World, is essential. Note their opening times and phone beforehand if you are after something specific, in case they have run out. Plants are collected from the wild and imported back into this country with a DEFRA licence. Plants for sale are mostly first or second generation seed produced stock, only a few vegetatively produced. | |
| Edrom Nurseries - excellent selection of rare and unusual plants, mostly perennials - Arisaema, Deinanthe, Podophyllum, Trautvetteria etc. | |
| County Park Nursery - look no further for Antipodean delights. | |
| Junker's Nursery - specialist growers of Acer, Cornus, Daphne, Liquidamber, Magnolia and Viburnum (mail order). | |
| Desirable Plants - Sarah and Julian Sutton - fascinating selection of interesting, some very rare plants, nice selection of Epimediums amongst others and very reasonable prices (mail order) | |
| Rare Plants - a wonderful site for the genuine plantaholic - huge range of bulbs, woodland plants, outdoor orchids with detailed photos and descriptions by Paul Christian one of the world's leading experts on these. Some plants can be incredibly expensive and are only for the knowledgeable or for those with money to waste! Are some plants offered for sale here wild collected? | |
| The Plantsman's Preference - specializes in a wide range of unusual perennials, in particular grasses. | |
| Ad Hoc Plants - this nursery grows a varied and eclectic range of plants including alpines, bulbs, perennials, shrubs and conifers - many are grown from wild-collected seed from around the world; and others from seeds, cuttings, division, etc, from plants within the gardens; or those donated by friends (good prices). | |
| Duchy of Cornwall Nursery - wonderful collection of unusual and rare plants (mail order). | |
| Burncoose Nurseries - again a long established Cornish nursery offering some very choice and rare species (mail order). | |
| Trevena Cross Nurseries - wide range of interesting and some very unusual plants and ferns. | |
| Larch Cottage Nurseries - many rare and unusual plants, one of the most comprehensive ranges in the UK (mail order). | |
| Special Plants Nursery - for 'passionate gardeners' - grow and sell unusual plants and seed from all over the world. | |
| Chris Pattison - nurseryman - wholesale/retail nursery growing a wide range of shrubs and alpines including new and obscure varieties. | |
| Barracott Plants - with a wide range of the unusual and rare including Acanthus, Ajuga, Astrantia, Bergenia, Brunnera, Cautleya, Convallaria, Eryngium, Ligularia, Liriope, Oenothera, Ophiopogon, Polygonatum, Pulmonaria, Rheum, Roscoea, Smilacina, Symphytum, Tricyrtis and others. | |
| The Plantsman's Preference - on the edge of Breckland in Norfolk, specialising in unusual perennials, in particular grasses. | |
| Nicholls Gardens - Inspiring Plants (USA, but export to UK) offering rare, newly released, unique or just plain hard to find wonderful plants. | |
| Futureprimitive Plants - the home of rare and unusual garden plants - as well as good old fashioned herbaceous perennial cottage garden plants. | |
| Ganesh Mani Pradhan & Son - an Indian Nursery prepared to export to the UK - anything that is micro propagated is obviously not obtained from wild material directly - they say everything else comes from nursery stock. Aroids, Hedychium, Paris etc. | |
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| Camellia, Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Cornus, Hydrangea | |
| Rotherview Nursery - wide selection of Camellias - Coghurst Camellias. | |
| Camellia Grove Nursery - at Loder Plants - Camellias and Rhododendrons from the famous Leonardslee Gardens. | |
| Lochlands, Dundee Road, Forfar, Angus - over 100 varieties available. | |
| Trehane Nursery - specialising in Camellias, Blueberries for all seasons. | |
| Imberhorne Lane Nursery - an extensive selection of Camellia varieties and species (mail order). | |
| Glenville Nurseries - young shrubs and conifers, many new and unusual. | |
| Glendoick Gardens Ltd - the Rhododendron specialist (mail order). | |
| The Himalayan Garden Co. - specialising in Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Magnolias and Cornus (mail order). | |
| Loder Plants - specialists in Rhododendrons, Camellias, Hydrangeas and other choice plants (mail order). | |
| Holden Clough Nursery - many specialities including Astilbe, Crocosmia, Grasses, Sempervivum and many more (mail order). | |
| Magnoliastore - information on 700 Magnolia species and varieties. Some are available from the nursery (Dutch). | |
| Mill Cottage Plants Nursery - Sally Gregson specialising in Hydrangea serrata (see article in The Plantsman v.5 part 3, p.158-164) amongst some unusual perennials. | |
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| Bamboos and Grasses | |
| The Big Grass Company - exclusively ornamental grasses and Restios (mail order). | |
| Hardy Bamboo.com - interesting selection of Bamboos but have a good range of unusual woody and perennial plants - good source of Sarcococca species (mail order). | |
| Plantazia Nursery - 100's grasses, Bamboo, perennials, unusual and exotic plants (mail order). | |
| FhF - Grasses - everything you want to know about ornamental grasses. | |
| Knoll Gardens - specialist growers of ornamental grasses and perennials, introducing Melinis nerviglumis and Carex tenuiculmis 'Cappucino' during Chelsea 2006. | |
| The Bamboo Store - some quite choice varieties listed. | |
| Oak Tree Nursery - specialising in ornamental grasses, grass-like plants and Dianella. | |
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| Mostly trees including fruits | |
| Pan Global Plants - a plantsman's nursery, trees, shrubs, perennials, Bamboos.......(mail order). | |
| Thornhayes Nursery - Devon's Specialist Tree Grower - many rarities (mail order). | |
| www.eucalyptus.co.uk - as the name suggests (mail order). | |
| Endsleigh Gardens - This nursery grows a wide range of Grafted Trees on our five acre retail nursery, including Japanese Maples, Wisterias, Cornus and Magnolias. Of special interest are our old Tamar Valley Apples and Cherries, nearly lost to cultivation, and now becoming very popular. | |
| Japanese Maples - see the largest range of cultivars and sizes in the UK. | |
| Long Stock Nursery - specialising in trees (mail order). | |
| Perry Hill Nurseries - again trees a specialty (mail order). | |
| Landford Trees - wide range of trees including a wide range of Prunus species and varieties. | |
| Ashridge Trees - quality bareroot trees - 300 varieties of tree. | |
| National Fruit Specialists - 600 different species. | |
| KORE Wild Fruit Nursery - a selection of hardy plants producing unusual edible fruit. | |
| Walcot Organic Nursery - growers of a wide selection of fruit trees on various root stocks. | |
| Welsh Fruit Stocks - top quality soft fruit plants including certified organic varieties direct from specialists growers. | |
| Weasdale Nurseries - huge choice of bare-root trees and shrubs (mail order). | |
| Spinneywell Nursery - unusual perennials and shrubs (mail order). | |
| Ornamental Tree Nurseries Ltd. - over 450 varieties including Hamamelis, Magnolias, Rhododendrons and more (mail order). | |
| Pounsley Plants - specialist in rare and unusual herbaceous perennials and cottage plants. | |
| Fir Tree Farm Nursery - wonderful herbaceous perennials - a wide range (mail order). | |
| Agroforestry Research Trust - is a non-profit making charity, which researches into temperate agroforestry. They produce several publications and sell fruit, nut trees and bushes as well as seed. | |
| Keepers Nursery - leading specialist fruit tree nursery with over 600 varieties available in the UK (including heritage apple cultivars). | |
| Bernwode Plants - Heritage Apple cultivars. | |
| Ken Muir - long established nursery also selling heritage apple cultivars. | |
| Whispering Trees Nurseries, Norforlk offers new varieties of plums and sweet chestnuts. | |
| Tree Shop - trees, hedging, box, yew, Rhododendrons | |
| Green Mile Trees - specialists in the finest mature ornamental trees. | |
| West Wales Willows - over 200 willow cultivars grown. | |
| Highfield Hollies - Ilex - over 150 varieties. | |
| Conifers from the specialist (mail order). | |
| Wollemia Pines (Wollemia nobilis)- these ancient conifers from Australia will be available to the public later this year. This is an example of the Rio Convention working. You can now order them in the UK. | |
| Trees Direct - the original online tree gift service. | |
| Trees by Post - a useful internet-only company selling trees and shrubs. | |
| Protected Trees - a guide to tree preservation procedures | |
| Advice on campaigning to protect trees (TPO) - The Woodland Trust and The Tree Council | |
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| Hellebores - mostly | |
| Phedar Nursery - species Hellebores available by mail order. | |
| Harveys Garden Plants - good source of Hellebores in general. | |
| Ashwood Nurseries - a "traditional plantsman's nursery" - a wide range of Hellebores including the new species Helleborus thibetanus, also have the National Collection of hardy Cyclamen (mail order, only some not all plants). | |
| Farmyard Nurseries - NCCPG collection holder for Tricyrtis, also specialising in the Ballard strain of Hellebores and also offering a range of unusual herbaceous plants (mail order). | |
| Hertfordshire Hellebores - The Hertfordshire home of hellebore hybrids - mail order only except for open days in february. | |
| Long Acre Plants - the place for Torquatus hybrids, shade loving perennials and ferns (mail order). | |
| Jurgen Peters Hellebore website - giving details of culture and other details leading onto his online shop (parts of website in English). | |
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| Irises, Auriculas, Cannas, Hemerocallis, Peonies, Agapanthus, Pelargoniums, Geranium | |
| Pine Cottage Plants - Agapanthus and other plants - the place to go for Agapanthus. | |
| Water Meadow Nursery in Hampshire offers an almost black Agapanthus, A. inapertus 'Midnight Cascade' | |
| Hoyland Plant Centre - over 100 varieties of Agapanthus and Tulbaghia. | |
| Iris of Sissinghurst - only Irises - Tall, short, Bearded, Sibiricas, Ensatas and many others. | |
| Cayeux - the father and son French run company are introducing a true French tricolour Iris 'Réussite' (Success) during Chelsea 2006 as well as 40 other tall bearded iris. | |
| Woottens of Wenhaston - specialists in Auriculas, Bearded Iris, Grasses, Hemerocallis and Pelargoniums. Don't forget their famous 'Plantsman's Handbook' - an essential minefield of information - now out of print and new catalogues will be available later in 2006 | |
| Hayloft Plants - Iris germanica specialists. | |
| Pops Plants - Holders of three NCCPG collections of Primula auricula. | |
| Abriachan Nurseries - Primula auricula - a fine collection of strong Highland grown plants. | |
| Barnhaven Primroses - used to be just outside Kendal, but now moved to France - wonderful Primula varieties. | |
| Hillview Hardy Plants - good choice of general perennials, but NCCPG collection of Acanthus together with Primula and Auricula collections. | |
| Claines Canna Collection - the place to buy Cannas. | |
| Apple Court Garden and Nursery - one of Hampshire's loveliest gardens specializing in Hemerocallis, Hostas, Grasses and Ferns. | |
| Gardentime-UK - focuses on Hemerocallis plants and botanical photography. Mature plants are for sale. | |
| A La Carte Daylilies - many unusual and new introductions. | |
| Unusual Peony's - unusual varieties and species - herbaceous, rockii and suffructicosa - mail order only. | |
| Binny Plants - perennials, Irises, Peonies, Astilbes, Ferns (excellent plants of Polystichum setiferum 'Green Lace' for sale) and Grasses (mail order). | |
| Fibrex Nurseries Ltd. - the nursery for Pelargoniums and Hedera - National Collection of these and don't forget their range of ferns (mail order). | |
| Claire Austin Hardy Plants - Bearded Iris National Collection Holder, includes Hemerocallis, Peonies and Tree Peonies (mail order). | |
| Kelways Ltd - source of Paeonia delavayi. | |
| Cranesbill Nursery - specialists in hardy Geraniums. | |
| Hoo House Nursery - Dianthus, Hemerocallis (Tinpenny Nursery) and climbers (Whimble Nursery). | |
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| Mostly Clematis | |
| Thorncroft Clematis - year round mail order. | |
| Clematis Container Nursery - Szczepan Marczyñski has an amazing selection of over 200 cultivars of Clematis (English version available). | |
| Taylors Clematis Nursery - over 400 varieties (mail order). | |
| Longstock Park Nursery - NCCPG collection holders of Buddleja and Clematis viticella. | |
| Clematis Choice - clematis specialists with a very wide choice. | |
| Guernsey Clematis - breeder and Worldwide exporter of Clematis - introducing a range of new free-flowering Clematis including 'Avant-Garde' and 'Ice Blue' during Chelsea 2006. | |
| Exotics | |
| Plantsman Nursery - specialist nursery for hardy and tender climbers (mail order). | |
| Big Plant Nursery - the largest range of hardy exotics and architectural plants in the country. | |
| Kobakoba - specializing in wide range of exotics - excellent descriptions and details of hardiness of what they grow. | |
| County Park Nursery - an unassuming treasure trove of rare and exotic antipodean plants. | |
| Special Plants - another wonderful specialist nursery run by New Englander, Derry Watkins situated between Bath and Chippenham. She specialises in a wide range of unusual plants including South American sages. | |
| Laneside Alpines and Hardy Orchids - over 40 species of hardy orchid. | |
| Todd's Botanics - palms, olives, bamboos, tree ferns etc. | |
| The source for 2,750 black plants! | |
| Dibleys Nursery - the nursery for Streptocarpus. | |
| Stone House Cottage - specialising in unusual climbers and wall shrubs. | |
| Kevock Garden - a plant nursery with a difference - they grow rare plants from around the world. | |
| Stone House Cottage Nurseries - the Arbutnott's have created a garden in the middle of England where tender rare and interesting plants defy the 'experts' and not only survive, but thrive! | |
| Amulree Exotics - palms, tree ferns, bananas, Bamboo, gingers, Canna and more (mail order). | |
| Cross Common Nursery - We are specialist suppliers and propagators of a fantastic range of exotic plants, tropical plants and unusual plants. We also have a great selection of more traditional, hardy plants and being situated by the sea we have just what you need for coastal gardens. | |
| David's Exotic Plants UK -offers online shopping for a wide range of rare exotic citrus trees, bougainvillea, tropical exotic plumeria, tropical mango plants, avocado trees, exotic litchi, kaffir limes, coffea arabica, citrus red lime, psidium, guava trees, olive trees, bauhinia, exotic punica pomegranate, fig, tea plant, loquat, exotic lychee trees, gloriosa, lantana, melia, monkey puzzle, norfolk island pine, dove tree and many many more exciting tropical exotics. | |
| The Palm Centre - the UK's foremost palm nursery for tropical and hardy palm trees, bamboos, tree ferns, hardy bananas, cycads, and many other plants. | |
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| General Nurseries | |
| Barnsdale Gardens - extensive range of best quality plants (mail order). | |
| Bridgemere Garden World - Britain's leading grower. | |
| Buckland Plants - a small, established family run nursery specialising in choice and unusual alpine, perennial and woodland plants. | |
| Halcyon Plants is a small wholesale nursery and online garden shop. This nursery produces a variety of keenly priced plants, mainly supplied as young plants in boxes of 8, and multiples of 4 thereafter. Larger stock is available in smaller numbers. | |
| BlueBell Nursery & Arboretum - growers of rare trees and shrubs. | |
| Endsleigh Gardens Nursery - good range of nursery stock. | |
| Dunge Valley Hidden Gardens & Hardy Plant Nursery - wide range of plants especially Rhododendrons. | |
| Langthorns Plantery - Euphorbias and perennials. | |
| Hopleys Plants - extensive range of choice garden plants. | |
| Beeches Nursery - extensive range including Aconitum. | |
| Kilmurry Nursery - herbaceous and Chelsea Gold Medal winners. | |
| Perryhill Nurseries - wide range of interesting and some rare plants. | |
| Rumsey Gardens - Wide general range - herbaceous, alpines, heathers, ferns as well as the National and International Collection of Cotoneaster. | |
| Meadow Farm Nursery - a traditional family nursery growing a wide selection of good value hardy plants. | |
| The Cottage Herbery - perennials including Astrantia major 'Cottage Herbery' to celebrate their 30th anniversary of growing plants in peat-free organic soil. | |
| Hardy's Garden Plants - again a range of perennials including Semiaquilegia 'Australian Form' | |
| Speldhurst Nurseries - "Share the Secret". | |
| Sampford Shrubs - a specialist nursery propagating and growing a wide range of hardy plants. | |
| Dove Cottage - Kim and Stephen Rogers grow a wide range of hardy herbaceous perennials and grasses. | |
| The Romantic Garden Nursery - the Topiary specialists (mail order). | |
| Esveld Plant Nursery, Boskoop, Holland - selling a wide range of plants, some rare and gardening books (including the classic Encyclopedia of Hydrangeas). This exports to the UK providing an efficient and quick service. Postage costs are very reasonable making nurseries like these often cheaper than buying in the UK. Highly recommended (mail order) | |
| De Hessenhof - another excellent Dutch nursery - wonderful selection of Hellebores, Agapanthus (English version available). Export to UK. | |
| De Groene Prins - specialist in hardy exotic plants - wide range(english version available). | |
| Pioneer Nurseries - good range of general nursery stock. | |
| Bosvigo Plants - Pulmonarias and plants for damp shade. | |
| Mendle Nursery - although primarily a Sempervivum and Saxifrage specialist, there is an interesting list of alpines/perennials. | |
| Highfield Nurseries - making good gardens look better - extensive range of plants, many rare and desirable. | |
| Cotswold Garden Flowers - wonderful range of unusual perennials, ferns and smaller shrubs. | |
| Cally Gardens- is a grand sight; thousands of species, grown as well as you ever see them, grouped harmoniously by a nurseryman with the eye of an artist - and the spirit of an adventurer. | |
| Chris Pattison - a small wholesale/retail nursery growing a wide range of shrubs and alpines. We aim to grow interesting plants including new cultivars and some of the more obscure varieties. Our specialities include Japanese Maples of which we grow over 60 different cultivars, Liquidambars, Viburnums and miniature shrubs suitable for the rock garden or bonsai culture. | |
| MacGregors Plants for shade - Epimediums and others. | |
| Prime Perennials - Established in 1998, this is a specialist UK mail-order nursery with a serious passion for plants, indulgently propagating a range of hardy perennials, grasses, bulbs and ferns which will appeal to all those plantsmen looking for the rare, unusual or obscure. | |
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| Bulb and corm links | |
| Broadleigh's Dwarf bulbs and foliage plants - over 300 varieties - the classic nursery for the unusual species. | |
| Judy's Snowdrops -articles written on a wide range of topics, including cultivation and propagation, photographs of a wide range of galanthus ofboth species and cultivars, links to other sites that may be of interest to snowdrop lovers and snowdrops that are for sale by mail order. | |
| Harveys Garden Plants - excellent range of Galanthus, one of the best (and wonderful Hellebores). | |
| Avon Bulbs - excellent selection of bulbs and now building up a stock of historic cultivars. | |
| Beeches Nursery - similar to the above. | |
| Cambo Snowdrops - bulbs in the green from 70 acres of Scottish woodland (mail order). | |
| Eurobulbs - excellent source of bulbs in the green including some very unusual varieties and very reasonable prices (mail order). | |
| Garden Supply Direct - Bulbs 'In the Green' - keen prices, good value. | |
| Gee Tee bulb company - good selection of bulbs at very reasonable prices. | |
| Tile Barn Nursery - Cyclamen specialists, all grown from seed, mail order and a very wide range. | |
| Orchard Rise Bulbs - interesting selection of bulbs also in the green (mail order). | |
| Orchard Nurseries - UK grower of snowdrops, english bluebells and spring bulbs. | |
| Kevock Garden Plants - snowdrops - gardens not open to the public. | |
| Summer & Autumn Flowering Bulbs - Dahlias, Galtonias, Eucomis, Cardiocrinum, Hedychium, Eremurus and many more, some rare. | |
| Bloms Bulbs - the traditional, high quality bulb company - a very wide selection (mail order). | |
| P. de Jager & Sons Ltd - specialist bulb specialist. | |
| Jacques Amand - specialising in a wide range of bulbs and tubers. | |
| R. A. Scamp - husband and wife team are continuing a long-standing family tradition of breeding and hybridizing daffodil varieties on their Cornish Estate. | |
| Heritage - Unique collections of rare and historic flower bulbs, and wholesale spring bulbs for naturalising. | |
| R. V. Roger Ltd. - Rare bulbs from the Himalayas. | |
| Historic daffodils - nurseries specialising in these - Dekker, Shipton Bulbs, The Old House Gardens, Bingerden. | |
| Fentongollan - bulbs straight from the farm. | |
| Bluebell Bulbs - bulbs native to the British Isles | |
| The Bulb Shop - spring flower bulbs for resale at direct from grower prices. | |
| Minature Bulbs and Choice Bulbs - wonderful selection and reasonable prices. | |
| Elworthy Cottage Plants - list of unusual Galanthus varieties. | |
| H.W.Hyde and Son - specialise in growing the very newest and best lily hybrids available, plus a range of standard varieties. | |
| Shipton Bulbs - mostly bulbs - Daffodils, Narcissi, Cyclamen - a wide range. | |
| Snowdropinfo - overview of the world of Snowdrops - a few surplus for sale but good links to those that do. | |
| The African Garden - including bulbs for sale - large amount of information on Agapanthus, Crocosmia etc. | |
| Potterton's Nursery - good selection at very reasonable prices, including alpines and a selection of interesting plants. | |
| Pitcairn Alpines - a range of interesting bulbs and corms - at a good price. | |
| P.C. Nijssen - good source of bulbs from the Netherlands. | |
| Rare Plants (Germany) - good range of bulbs and seeds of a variety of unusual plants. | |
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| Roses | |
| David Austin - Fragrant English Roses. | |
| Peter Beales Roses - A treasury of Classic Roses. | |
| Acton Beauchamp Old Roses - Traditionally grown, tough, healthy roses. | |
| Gandy's Roses - 600 new, old and very old varieties. | |
| Apuldram Roses - over 300 varieties to choose from. | |
| The Cornish Rose Company - rose grower of a wide range of varieties. | |
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| Lavandula, Heuchera, Acanthus, Digitalis, Cistus, Vernal Vetches, Salvias, Primulas. | |
| Lavender and Rosemary - Downderry Nursery has the NCCPG collection of these (mail order). | |
| Mill Croft Lavender - a range of lavender products including a selection of plants. | |
| Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants - Heuchera "Marmalade" will be available in 2005. | |
| Hillview Hardy Plants - worth visiting for John Millington's collection of Acanthus. | |
| The Botanic Nursery - two acre display garden housing the National Collection of Digitalis. | |
| Hortus Garden and Nursery - coloured themed borders featuring foxgloves. | |
| Cistus and Halmium website - Bob Page's definitive website on these genera. | |
| Matthewman's Sweet Peas - few perennials reach their zenith in April, but Lathyrus vernus is a notable exception and you can get a wide range from this nursery. | |
| Dysons Nurseries - a range of Salvias including Salvia leucantha. | |
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| Wildflower Nurseries | |
| Really Wildflowers - based in Dorset, supplies about 250,000 plug plants annually. Grahame Dixie also provides expert technical advice based on his own personal experience. | |
| Natural Selection - based in Wiltshire - Martin Cragg-Barber runs a small nursery specialising in unusual variations in native plants. | |
| Mires Beck Nursery - Yorkshire - Irene Tinklin ensures the true UK provenance of all her wild plants offered. | |
| Pictorial Meadows - beautiful naturalistic displays of native and exotic species. | |
| The Really Wild Nursery - a wild flower nursery based in Devon. | |
| Mostly Hostas | |
| Hosta Valley - a wonderful informational site about Hostas. | |
| Bali - Hai Nursery - a very comprehensive, mail order collection of Hostas - excellent. | |
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| Mostly seeds | |
| Special Plants Nursery - unusual plant seeds from all over the World. | |
| Chiltern seeds - "grow something new from seed" - amazing range. | |
| Jelitto - perennial seeds - production, breeding and seed technology. | |
| Nicky's Seeds and Garden Games - rare, exotic and unusual seeds. | |
| Secret Seeds - a specialist seed company based in Devon, UK - with some general germination tips. | |
| Touchwood seeds - unusual, rare, cottage garden and Aquilegia collection. | |
| Capital Gardens - for the new F1 Cabbage Kilaxy. | |
| Suttons Seeds - the seed supplier. | |
| The seed site - details of seed germination - very useful resource. | |
| Rarepalmseeds.com - has established itself as the number one source for the unusual, cold hardy and other interesting palm seeds, Cycad seeds, banana seeds and Pandanus, Agave and Yucca seeds. | |
| Vegetable Seeds UK - Heirloom Vegetable Seeds - over 500 vegetable and heirloom seeds - black tomatoes from the Island of Krim in the Black Sea, their best seller! | |
| Plant-World-Seeds - global retailers of over 600 varieties of seed - many rare and unusual. | |
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| Famous Gardens around the World | |
| Bodnant Garden One of the most beautiful gardens in Britain, Bodnant is set on the slopes of the Conwy Valley, near Tal-y-Cafn. It is renowned for the displays of Rhododendrons, Camellias, Azaleas and the Laburnum arch, but there is much more and the website tells you what's in flower when. | |
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Visit the Gwyllt or Wild Place - Steven Lacey rates this the best garden in this country or how about Plas Brondanw nearby, another gem rated by the Independent as being one one the 10 best gardens in the World! |
| Great British Gardens This guide to gardens worth visiting includes about eight in North Wales, with details of location, opening times and accommodation in the area. | |
| National Gardens Scheme Fans of the Yellow Book will love this website which gives you details of all gardens, mostly private, that open to the public for a few days each year under the charitable National Gardens Scheme. The Gardenfinder section allows you to search for gardens in your area and find opening times and directions - saves you buying the Yellow Book! | |
| Great Dixter House and Gardens - The home of late Christopher Lloyd - Inspirational Gardens and nurseries. | |
| Savill Garden - Windsor Great Park - Magnificent landscaped woodland garden. | |
| Trewithen - perhaps the most beautiful woodland garden in England. | |
| Tresco Abbey Garden - subtropical planting, including exotic species from more than 80 countries. | |
| Hestercombe - laid out in 1904 by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - this is hailed as their masterpiece! | |
| Arley Hall and Gardens - Roy Lancaster has described this as 'one of the most exciting and unpredictable gardens I know'. | |
| Hidcote, Powis Castle - look for details under The National Trust. | |
| Gresgarth Hall, Caton - the gardens of Arabella Lennox-Boyd. | |
| Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley, South Yorks - National Collection of Camellia. | |
| The Beth Chatto Garden - details of this inspirational garden near Colchester, Essex together with mail order details. | |
| Caerhays Castle, Cornwall - magnificent world famous Magnolias. | |
| Borde Hill - spectacular Camellia and Magnolia displays. | |
| Brogdale, Kent - the biggest fruit collection in Europe with hundreds of trees bursting into bloom. | |
| Coton Manor Garden - a beautifully maintained garden of exceptional charm. | |
| West Green House Gardens - restored by internationally acclaimed gardener and author, Marylyn Abbott. It has received the ultimate accolade of the two star rating from Britain's Good Garden Guide. | |
| The Little Sparta Trust - set in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is Ian Hamilton Finlay's greatest work of art. | |
| Corsham Court, Wiltshire - trees in the informal parts of this landscaped garden blossom above glades covered in a swathe of spring bulbs. | |
| Trevarno - the ingenuity and determination of its owners, combined with a stunning West Country setting could make this garden the new Heligan. | |
| Docwra's Manor - home of the Raven family and this garden has plantings of the late John Raven. | |
| Doddington Hall, Lincoln - the Hall's pleasure grounds were laid out 400 years ago and is now well cared for by Claire Birch and her family. | |
| Marwood Hill Gardens - a dazzling collection (NCCPG) of candelabra Primula. | |
| The Japanese Garden database giving details of Japanese gardens around the world. A must for Japanese garden enthusiasts. | |
| A super resource for the Organic gardener from the U.S.A. | |
| Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena - a pioneering project in California is going to new lengths to interest young people in gardening. | |
| If you are going to New Zealand be sure to visit this site. If not visit it any way, a great way to spend an hour or so. | |
| Lystigardur Akureyri Public Park and Botanic Garden, - 60 miles from the Artic Circle, on Iceland's north coastand is a challenge to anyone's idea of hardiness. | |
| Snowdrop Gardens - West Green House, Hants., East Lambrook Manor Gardens, Rodmarton Manor, Kingston Lacy, Colesbourne Park, Brandy Mount House, Easton Walled Gardens . | |
| Asperupgaard is a fascinating Danish garden located in Asperup near the north western coast of Fuenen. The garden which spans approx. 4000 m2, is a "Wild Garden" with hundreds of rhododendrons (mostly wild species), approx. 60 different magnolias, roses (wild species and old roses), many alpines and much more. | |
| Potager Garden and Greenhouse Café - near Falmouth, Cornwall is a new experience in garden visiting for the region, and not just in terms of the planting. | |
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| Personal Garden Websites | |
| Otto und Moni Gansses excellent German website with details of Bamboos, Hostas, ferns and exotics he grows near Frankfurt. Even though the text is in German, don't let that put you off - the photographs and latin names are universal. | |
| Op de Haar Garden - An unique Dutch garden comprising of 6 areas each with a different character(ca. 2 ha.). Over 2500 different plants to see - some rare and unusual. An unusual landscape in the middle of an ancient wooded swamp. The site is bilingual - including english - think how much time that takes! | |
| Rosi's Farngarten - another fascinating and excellent fern site in German, very professional photographs and a very comprehensive, excellent CD ROM of fern species both in German and English is available. Rosi Möller is responsible for this. | |
| Soul of the Garden - once in a while one comes across a website that is special and this website is one of those - wonderful - have a look. | |
| Ilona's Reflecting Pool - Midwest USA gardening - beautifully designed gardening site - Ilona's Garden Blog giving a fascinating diary on a day to day basis - fascinating. | |
| The Dillon Garden - Helen Dillon's garden just outside Dublin. Helen is one of Irelands most famous garden writers and TV personalities. A beautifully designed web site reflecting this wonderful haven for plantaholics and garden designers alike. | |
| Exoticgarden.com - be transported to the tropics - an online guide to a garden in Norwich. This is open to the public in the summer and has lots of other information about exotic gardening. | |
| A Small Irish Garden - Elizabeth Law's charming site of her garden in Dublin. | |
| Shady Character - a site in the USA devoted to the challenges of gardening in the shade. | |
| A Flower Arranger's Garden - Another really excellent personal gardening web site, full of interest to anyone with any enthusiasm in gardening. Where do people find the time to create these labours of love? | |
| Mossey's Country Garden - an eccentric rambling country garden - a very impressive personal garden site from New Zealand. | |
| Patrick Vickery is a Garden Writer and Gardener based in the north of Scotland. As well as running a small perennial plant nursery in the Scottish Highlands, he writes articles of an anecdotal, unusual and gardening kind called the “Garden Blether ” | |
| Turning Earth - a beautifully designed web site with lots of interesting information and thoughts. | |
| Kari's Garden - another high quality personal web site chronicling her old and new gardens along with fascinating articles and plant catalogue. | |
| Catgarden- a fascinating personal website run by Lorre - her garden through the seasons with garden blog. | |
| Little Paradise - This Flemish website is meant for all garden lovers who show an interest in an open, informal country garden (or cottage garden). | |
| Listing of gardening websites of gardeners home pages. | |
| Donald and Patricia Perkins' garden pages - a garden diary with a difference - a comparison for the year 2000 between this garden in Anglesey in North Wales and a Victorian garden at Huntercombe Manor 1882/83 - fascinating!! | |
| Foxleas - Garden Wildlife in a private garden in the London Suburbs - a beautifully designed website giving details of this garden, information and advice on developing gardens sympathetic to increasing biodiversity. | |
| A good listing of gardening web site links. | |
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| Web sites with information on particular groups or genera of plants | |
| Plant trials under way at RHS Garden Wisley include: Actaea, Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, Eupatorium, and Sedum (Sept.2006). | |
| The Epimedium Page - wonderful collection of photographs. | |
| The International Aroid Society - An excellent website on this interesting group of plants. | |
| A comprehensive web site about Camellias from Germany with excellent information and photographs. | |
| Another similar site from Germany about Camellias with extensive photographs. | |
| The International Camellia Society - the genus, its culture, description, journals, books, research, documents and history. | |
| Camellias in Galicia - information on the origins of this genus. | |
| List of Camellias of Japan - guide of this genus in Japan with descriptions of 2010 cultivars of Japonica and 217 cultivars of Sasanqua. | |
| Detailed information is now available as a download from the Hortax website and is entitled 'Booklet on Plant Names' . | |
| The Dutch Rhododendron Society - comprehensive information on this genus. | |
| The Ginko Pages - fascinating website covering all aspects of this unique, living fossil. | |
| Virtual Azalea - a Japanese site giving a good overview of species and hybrids - a valuable resource. | |
| The Maple - another Japanese site, in English and an excellent resource of information on this genus across the World. | |
| Bamboo Home Page - primarily Japanese but with overview of Bamboos in the World. | |
| Rohdea japonica and all its varieties!! - all in Japanese, but the photographs give some idea. | |
| Hellebores - information and pictures on wild species hellebores and Orientalis Hybrids, or Lenten roses as they’re sometimes known, on Christmas roses, on botanical classification, on hellebore propagation and cultivation, on hellebore books as well as articles from The Garden and from other magazines. You’ll also find a directory of sources for hellebore seed and plants. | |
| Galanthus - systematics and details for every species. | |
| Proteas - Protea Atlas Project - details of this group of genera and how to grow them in Europe. | |
| Passiflora Online - everything you want to know about this genus. | |
| Registry of Daylily Cultivars - organised by the American Hemerocallis Society. | |
| Carnivorous Plants - an excellent photo-gallery of this group of fascinating plants. | |
| Robin's Salvias - Robin Middleton started collecting salvias about 10 years ago and now have one of the largest collections in the UK. | |
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| Gardening discussion groups | |
| Irish Gardeners Forum - a new Irish forum which aims to offer free access to an incredible wealth of horticultural information specific to Ireland. This versatile forum provides help from fellow gardeners and the opportunity to discuss all the best gardening techniques again specific to Ireland. | |
| The RHS message board - you do not have to be an RHS member to register. This facility seems to be very much in its infancy and most RHS members do not realise it exists. We shall see how it develops. | |
| TheThinking Gardens Group - has been set up, with the help of the RHS, to encourage and develop a broader, more inquiring attitude to gardens. Over the coming years, the ThinkingGardens Group will facilitate activities - such as publications, events and discussions - raising the awareness of gardens and placing them back into a cultural context. | |
| The Virtual Garden - a very good source for ideas and information. | |
| Garden Banter - Portal to a number of garden discussion groups - well worth a look. | |
| The UK Oasis - one stop "shop" covering all aspects of growing all types of exotic plants in the UK - a serious gardening discussion group with little or no trivia! | |
| gardenbreizh.org - excellent discussion group about exotic plants and gardens for all climates (in french) | |
| Carrie Thomas's free email interest group - if you have an interest in Aquilegia. | |
| BBC gardening - click on "message board" - some interesting threads amongst trivia. | |
| Real Gardeners - built by real gardeners in the UK for real gardeners around the world - you will have a warm welcome from a very active group - mostly women though so you will have to behave! | |
| SRGC Forum - very active discussion group of the Scottish Rock Garden Club - a lot of very valuable discussion threads, mostly about alpines. | |
| The AlpenPix discussion board - wealth of information primarily about alpines. | |
| Human Flower Project - an international newsgroup, photo album and discussion of how people live through flowers. | |
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| Photographs of plants, botanical sculptures | |
| Andrea Jones - one of the world's leading plant and garden photographers with a superb new book of her inspirational images - 'Plantworlds' - ed. Mark Fletcher Publ. Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy. This book can be bought from Amazon. | |
| An excellent resource of plant photographs from Berkeley University, California. | |
| Adams, I. 2005. The Art of Garden Photography. ISBN 0 88192 680 9. - an essential reference for garden photographers. | |
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A very comprehensive botanical picture data-base of European plants. This is another truly amazing resource and again is trilingual (including english) - remarkable! |
| Yamasaki Plant Photo Gallery - comprehensive collection of plant photographs of plants from Asian countries. | |
| Dendrological Plant Image Gallery - a large, high quality database of photographs and information on some 3301 images of woody plants - a tremendous resource. | |
| Plant Image Gallery - over 5000 pictures of plants native to several parts of the world - Costa Rica, Galapagos, Japan, Europe - includes Schoenfelder New Kosmos guide of medical plants. | |
| Carnivorous Plant Photo Finder - comprehensive selection of these interesting genera. | |
| The Alpine-L Picture Gallery - excellent resource of photographs submitted by the public. | |
| The Alpine Garden - Rock Gardening on the Net - associated with the above. | |
| Part of Dave's Garden - Plantfiles, Plant Database. | |
| Floral Images - a fascinating web site run by John Crelin with two parts - wild and horticultural flowers. | |
| Sharon Pearson - professional plant photography. | |
| Trevor Nicholson Christie - specialising in garden photography. | |
| Garden Photography - a source of stock gardening photographs. | |
| Ericka Sonder's 'Portable Herbarium' - is a collection of herbarium specimens showing the biodiversity of the New England flora. These are reproduced by means of high-quality laser copying. | |
| Innervisions - fine art x-ray photography of nature - interesting! | |
| Flowers in Ultra-Violet - arranged by plant family - fascinating! (click on UV flowers). | |
| Phylotaxis - for seed - an exploration of the space where science meets culture - amazing! | |
| Antique Botanical Prints - wide range of prints from famous botanists and naturalists. | |
| Garden Photographers' Association - In 1999, frustrated by ad hoc meetings at busy RHS Chelsea Flower Shows, Jerry Harpur and Andrew Lawson, two of the founder members of the GPA, recognised the need to bring together professional garden photographers on a more regular basis. What started out as a ‘friendly chat’ in an RHS meeting room, has now formed the basis of what the GPA stands for today. | |
| Niki Simpson - has now a website devoted to her digital illustrations of plants - the equivalent of a digital herbarium. Developed from the long tradition of botanical art, from the early herbals, through lithographs and engravings, to the meticulously hand-painted watercolours of today, this new digital work aims to combine the best of the old with the demands and technologies of the new. Niki now has a gallery exhibition in the Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, showing 40 of her innovative digital botanical images, illustrating a wide range of plants. | |
| Amorphous concrete furniture for the garden - from a duo of young designers called Solid Soul. | |
| potager.dk - an interesting concept - is a tribute to beautiful vegetables in beautiful kitchen gardens. A potager is not only a kitchen garden delivering fresh produce for the kitchen. In a potager, the vegetables are presented in an estetical way. Wonderful photographs, really worth a look. | |
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| CD-ROM's | |
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plant and gardening guide - a really excellent, developing resource suitable for all gardeners, expert and novice alike - buy it! |
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Rosi's
Farngarten - another fascinating and excellent fern site
in German, very professional photographs and a very comprehensive
CD ROM of fern species both in German and English is available.
Rosi Möller is responsible for this. Details of the English version of the CD ROM is included here of costs and how to buy, taken by kind permission from Rosi's website. If you are keen on ferns, this is a must to buy! |
| Plant Finder
A-Z Online. |
RHS Plant Finder - published annually on CD ROM. At the moment, the 2003-4 version is being used for checking plant nomenclature, apart from it's primary purpose to find suppliers. |
| a four DVD boxed set that gives a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at our most notable gardens including the head gardeners of each. | |
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| Garden Design | |
| Rolling Stone Gardens - stylish, eco friendly and low maintenance design which are sympathetic to a sites unique character and the broader landscape - Nice photographs of the designers personal gardens in Wales and York. | |
| My Landscapes - Garden design based in London, contemporary solutions for your outdoor space. | |
| Room 105 - a design team who has perfected the art of bringing the art of bringing photographs to life in the garden. | |
| The Society of Garden Designers - perhaps the equivalent of a kite mark in the world of garden design. | |
| Garden History and Tours - good starting point for links to these topics. | |
| Greenovia - landscape design company with an innovative web design to say the least, flash driven and you need broadband - perhaps it is a substitute for the 'real' thing if you live in somewhere really miserable (I don't!). | |
| Plan your own dream garden - online or download the full functioning version. | |
| Vertical Garden: The Art of Organic Architecture - the future of gardening in our cities? | |
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| Gardening Tools | |
| Stockton Heath Forge - Caldwell's tools are made to last - tools as they were made - made to last! | |
| Sneeboer Tools - Dutch tools made as above, forged stainless steel - I use their transplanting spade all the time! They will make any tools to your specification for almost the same cost as their normal range. Available in this country from Harrod Horticultural. | |
| Le Prince Jardinier - very swish garden store in the Palais-Royal, France - also supplies the RHS and The Chelsea Gardener. | |
| Manufactum - This German company prides itself on sourcing traditionally made quality products, including a small but useful selection of garden tools. | |
| Plantstuff - excellent range of good-quality stainless-steel gardening tools, most of which come with a 25-year guarantee. | |
| Haxnicks - not really tools in a traditional sense, but Dupont Green Vista Fabric. One fabric in particular is interesting which is a root barrier. This is being used with Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda, which has particularly vicious roots. We shall see how effective this root barrier turns out. | |
| Get Digging - Azadas, Mattocks, Long Handled Spades, Long Handled Forks, Cromes, Scythes, Sickles, Slashers. | |
| Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools - good range from Germany, Japan and UK. | |
| Old Garden Tools shows a large and extensive collection of vintage and antique garden tools and gardening ephemera, some for hire, some for sale. Hundreds of Museum items are pictured here. The garden tools collection is housed in West London. | |
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| Micropropagation | |
| Recipes for home micropropagation media | |
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| "There
is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven- A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted." Ecclesiastes, 3:1-2. |
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