Links to Horticultural Information on the Web

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This is just a sample of various gardening/horticulture pages and lists on the web whichis periodically updated as quality gardening sites are found. Clicking on a link will take you off of the East Texas Gardening web site. Clicking a link will also open a new browser window, and you can return to this page by closing that browser window. If you find a dead link, please let me know. (Update 11/26/07 )

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Index

Texas Gardening Plant Search Sites Specialty Plant Groups Vegetables Fruits and Nuts Trees Turfgrass Composting Worm Composting Kids Gardening

Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Display Gardens Horticulture Organizations and Associations Horticulture Therapy Water & Drought Issues Pest Management and Pesticides Biological Pest Control Butterflies, Birds and other wildlife Miscellaneous

Texas Gardening (General):

• Texas Aggie Horticulture - One of the best horticultural sites on the net!
• Earth Kind Gardening
• Texas Urban Landscape Guide
  
• Upcoming horticultural programs in the Tyler area
  
• Other Extension horticultural programs in Texas
  
• Texas Nursery, Floral and Landscape Network
• Read, hear or see Texas Extension Horticulture mass media programs in your area
• Outstanding Landscape Plants for East Texas
  
• PlantAnswers to almost any horticultural questions in Texas; ask the experts if you don't find the answer to your question
  
• PlantAnswers horticultural publications
  
• Texas AgriLife Extension Horticulture Information Resource
• Extension Online Publications
  
• Texas Plant Disease Handbook - an excellent on-line diagnostic tool
  

Plant Search Sites:

• The PlantAnswer Machine (searches Aggie Horticulture)
• The Ohio State Virtual Horticulture Search Engine (searches all state university horticulture internet sites)
• The PLANTS Project Homepage a National Plants Database compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service

Specialty Plant Groups:

Azaleas

• Growing Azaleas in Northeast Texas
• Azaleas for North Carolina
• Azalea Culture (written for North Carolina)
• Azalea Society of America
• East Coast Native (deciduous) Azaleas
• The AzaleaWorks Home Page
• Henning's Rhododendron & Azaleas Pages
• Growing Azaleas & Rhododendrons (Missouri Extension publication)

Bulbs

Camellias

• Northeast Texas
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Alabama

Daylilies

• American Hemerocallis Society Home Page

Herbs

Hostas

• East Texas Hosta Variety Trial results (2000)
• Hostas (Univ. of Georgia)
• Hostas (Clemson)
• Hosta research on affects of chilling (Auburn)

Iris

Native Texas Plants

• Native Texas Shrubs
• Native Texas Trees

Orchids

• American Orchid Society
• Growing Orchids
• Growing Phalaenopsis
• Orchid Information (Y.T. Wang's web site)

Perennials

Roses

• Growing Roses
• Outstanding Roses for Texas Database Search
• The Rose Resource (AARS)

Water Gardens & Plants

• Water Gardening in Texas (execellent publication- click "Read Publications")

Plants for Problem Places

• Landscape Plants for Wet Sites (written for North Carolina)

Vegetables:

• Online Tomato Diagnostic Site
• Texas A&M VegIPM site

Fruits and Nuts:

• Homeowners Guide to Pests of Peaches, Plums and Pecans
• Chemicals for Plant Disease Control at Home
• Fruit and Nut Disease Products for Use in Texas
• Texas Fruit & Nut Publication Resources
• Fruit Gardening in the Landscape
• Smith Co. Fruit Growers list
• Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium
• Pecan Kernel (Pecan insect management guide)

Trees:

• Texas Forest Service
• Texas Urban Forestry
• Texas Forest Service urban tree articles
• Texas Big Tree Registry
• Urban Tree Risk Management: A community guide to program design and implementation
• Pest Management (Tx. Forest Service site)
• Pine Trees and Bark Beetles
• IPS Beetles Photographs (Texas Forest Service)
• Tree Insects (US Forest Service - Southern Region)
• Tree Diseases (US Forest Service - Southern Region)
• How to Prune Trees
• ISA (International Society of Arborists) Certified Arborist list
• ISA "Trees Are Good" site on tree care
• The National Arboretum

Turfgrass:

• Plant Answers Turf Information & Articles
• Aggie Turf Web Site (both home and commercial turf info - Click on Answers 4 You)
• Sandbur or Grassbur Control
• Weed Images (lots of them! Searchable, too)
• Weed web sites (lots of links)

Water & Drought Issues:

• East Texas Water Conservation
• East Texas PET (Potential Evapotranspiration) Web Site
• Irrigating Lawns During a Drought
• Texas A&M PlantAnswers Drought Information

Composting:

• Extension Compost Resources
• Master Composter
• Composting in Schools (Cornell)

Worm Composting:

• Yucky Site: Worm World - Nature's Recyclers
• WORM DIGEST
• The Burrow - lots of information about vermicomposting
• Home Worm Production

Kid's Gardening:

• Kids Links - lots of 'em!
• Junior Master Gardener program a cool program for kids everywhere
• Just for Kids (Aggie Horticulture Kid's Site!!!)
• Missouri Botanical Garden "Evergreen Project Adventures
• Science Fair Project Links
• Outdoor classrooms and school gardens resources
• Horticulture and Youth Links
• Gardening Launch Pad's Kids Links
• USGS (US Geological Survey) Kid's Corner

Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Display Gardens:

• The United States National Arboretum
• The SFA (Stephen F. Austin State Univ.) Mast Arboretum, Nacogdoches, Texas - a real jewel for plant lovers!
• The University of Georgia Trial Gardens
• JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University
• AABGA (American Assoc. of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta) member listings (search for a public garden near you or on your next vaction trip)

Horticulture Organizations & Associations:

• Texas Nursery and Landscape Association
• International Society of Arborists
• ISA Certified Arborist List

Horticulture Therapy:

• People-Plant Council Newsletter

Pests, Pest Management, Insects and Pesticides:

• Texas IPM Program - a comprehensive web portal for IPM program in Texas
• Horticulture IPM (Texas Aggie Horticulture) - a great site for finding specific IPM recommendations for insect pests on nursery and floral crops.
• Homeowner's Fruit & Nut Spray Guide (click "Read Publication")
• Biological Controls

Diseases

• Texas Plant Disease Handbook - Contents

Insects

• Extension entomology publications (needs Acrobat to read - download links provided)
  
• Fire Ant Control Project Site
• Termites
• Honey bees and Africanized Honeybees (obviously, honey bees are not pests, but seems like a good place to list this excellent resource)
• East Texas Beekeepers Association
• Insects in the City - Info on pest in the home and landscape
• TAMU Entomology Web Site

Weeds

• Weed Gallery - great source of pics, hosted by Rutgers Cooperative Extension in New Jersey
  
• Weed Society of America- weed and herbicide info, pictures, pesticide labels
  
• Weed web links

Pest Management

• Pest Management Approaches for the Master Gardener
• Pesticide Education Resources, University of Nebraska
• Integrated Pest Management Resource Centre: Frontpage
• National Pesticide Information Center

IPM (Integrated Pest Management)

• Texas IPM Program - a comprehensive web portal for IPM program in Texas
• Horticulture IPM (Texas Aggie Horticulture) - a great site for finding specific IPM recommendations for insect pests on nursery and floral crops.
• School IPM - Southwest Technical Resource Center
• Texas IPM Foundation
• Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook
• Mississippi State - Organic Fruit and Vegetable Production web site
• Cornell Vegetable IPM website
• Vegetable IPM

Wildlife Damage & Management

• Mole Article and Links
• Texas Wildlife Damage Management Service publications
• Wildlife Management, Nebraska Extension Publications

Biological Pest Control

• Suppliers of Beneficial Organisms in North America
• Risks From Natural Insecticides - Nebraska
• Bees: Raising Mason Bees - NC State
• Beneficial Insects (slide show) - Virginia
• Beneficial Organisms - Florida
• Beneficial Insects : Least-Toxic Controls - Washington State
• Lady Beetle: Multicolored Asian - NC State
• Lady Beetles - NC State
• Nematodes as Biological Control Agents of Insects
• Biological Control Virtual Information Center
• Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies - Cornell
• Biological Control News
• National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS)
• National Biological Control Institute
• Natural Insecticides - New Mexico
• Natural Pesticide Products - Virginia
• Pheromones for Insect Management - New Mexico

Butterflies, Birds & Other Wildlife:

• Order form for Texas Butterfly Color Wheel produced by Texas A&M
• Butterfly Gardening in Texas (click "Read Publication")
• Lots of Butterfly & Moth links
• The North American Butterfly Association

Miscellaneous:

• Seed Germination Database
• Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Nature - fascinating relations of spirals occurring in nature to mathematics
• Poisonous Plants Links - poisonous plant information on the web
• Horticulture Information Leaflets(North Carolina Cooperative Extension)

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