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- Alabama Master Gardeners
- Web site of the Alabama Master Gardener Association. Links to information
including the state MG conference, news, MG program information,
announcements and related sites.
- Alabama Urban Forestry Association (AUFA)
- AUFA promotes proper care for trees in urban environments. "AUFA develops
partnerships to further better tree management, promote professionalism
by encouraging professional certification, licensing and continuing
education, produce seminars and workshops to increase knowledge
in arboriculture and work with public officials and stakeholders
about issues affecting urban forestry." Some of the partnerships
are with the Alabama Forestry Commission, Auburn University through
the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and School of Forestry
and Wildlife Services, and the United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service.
- Cornell
University Vegetable MD Online
- Vegetable MD Online was developed to provide access to fact sheets
on vegetable diseases produced at Cornell. Color photos are available
as well to help with disease diagnoses,and the site is searchable.
- GardenWeb
Glossary
- GardenWeb's Glossary of Botanical Terms "currently contains 4400
terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape
architecture." The glossary, which is part of the larger GardenWeb, site may be searched or browsed
(with the caveat that there are many pages to go through.)
- The Helpful Gardener
- "The Helpful Gardener brings the pleasure of gardening to your
home. Bookmark this site because we are continually adding new articles,
gardening tips, and features." The Helpful Gardener is authored
by an instructor from the Master Gardener program at UConn in Connecticut,
Scott Reil.
- Home Garden News
- Home Garden News, a Web log (blog) from the Alabama Extension System,
provides information of interest to gardeners in our state.
- Horticulture
HotLinks
- Horticulture Hotlinks, a page from Illinois Master Gardeners,
provides information about other MG programs in the US. In addition,
it is also a source of gardening answers, such as Hotline Helpers, plant databases and more.
- Horticulture
on the Internet
- This site, from North Carolina State University's Department
of Horticultural Science, offers a number of links categorized by
plant groups, garden topics and sources of information.
- Landscape Horticulture at Auburn University
- The Landscape Horticulture site is intended for a range of audiences: home
gardeners, landscape professionals, commercial growers and urban
foresters. Among the features available is a searchable Plant Identification
Resource that provides detailed information including images, scientific
and common names, growth habits, planting information and pests.
This resource may also be browsed alphabetically. Other features
include a keyword index, newsletter archive, events, ideas and useful
links.
- The
Master Gardener's Guide to Finding Answers on the Web
- Aimed at helping Master Gardeners find answers to questions on the Web, this
page provides links organized into categories for broad topics,
specific questions, Problem Solvers and Plant ID, Plant Selection
and Care, and MG programs. In addition, more gardening information
is available from the Garden Gate home
page.
- National Arbor Day Foundation
- The National Arbor Day Foundation site offers searchable information on tree
varieties, a hardiness zone lookup, an online tree identification
guide, tree planting and care guides. In addition, there is information
about membership in the foundation, programs, Arbor Day dates and
event calendars, and much more.
- Other
Master Gardener Sites
- Maintained by a Master Gardener in the Colorado State Extension
Service program, this page provides links to MG and Extension pages
in the US and Canada.
- Plant
Disease Diagnostics
- This site from the University of Minnesota's Extension Service
is intended to help diagnose plant disease problems. Users may select
the type of host (such as flowers, vegetables, turf, etc.), choose
what part of the plant is affected, then view photos of symptoms.
- PLANTfacts
- This page from Ohio State University has a Factsheet database that
provides access to plant-related information from 46 different universities and government agencies in North America. The database contains over 59,000 pages of Extension Service publications to answer questions about plants.
- Trees
of Alabama and the Southeast
- From the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University, this site was produced by Dr. Lisa Samuelson, Mike Hogan, and Tom Stokes. A menu on the left side of the page allows navigation to topics that include Samuelson's book Forest Trees: A Guide to the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States, quizzes, terminology and types of trees. The site is searchable.
- Vegetable Varieties On-line
- This searchable database from ACES, updated Fall 2002, helps answer the question of which varieties to grow. Information was compiled from trials over the past nine years and from seed catalogs. The database contains all vegetable varieties grown in Alabama, and searching is available by type, performance, disease tolerance/resistance claims and source of seeds.
- WebGarden
- WebGarden is sponsored by Ohio State University, and provides
a collection of resources for gardeners, students, agronomists and
horticulturists. Features include a searchable database of factsheets
and plant dictionary.
- Wildland Invasive Species Program
- Invasives on the Web is sponsored by the Nature
Conservancy's Wildland Invasive Species Program to provide information
about invasive plant species. Topics addressed here include definition
of invasive species, control and descriptions of the worst weeds.
Viewers can find the worst invaders in their location by clicking
on a US map. The section on weed control offers images and documentation
and is searchable by scientific or common plant names.
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