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COMMUNITY GARDENS |
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The Evergreen Foundation Works to inspire and promote
community action that demonstrates the relationship between healthy communities and a
sustainable natural environment.
American Community Gardening
Association The ACGA is an organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of
community greening in urban and rural communities.
Denver Urban Gardens The Denver Urban
Gardens web site introduces viewers to the nonprofit organization that transforms vacant,
derelict inner-city lots into lush oases for the community.
German Community Gardens
Information on the community gardening movement in Germany.
Idaho Falls Community
Gardens Have fun and learn to grow flowers, fruits and vegetables at the Idaho Falls
Community Garden.
JC Raulston Arboretum Arboretum at
North Carolina State University.
Long Beach Organic Transforms
urban vacant lots into productive and green community gardens that "provide the
freshest fruits and vegetables available".
Northey Street City Farm
This community farm in Brisbane, Australia grows organic fruit and vegetables.
South Austin Community Garden
Organic community garden in Texas. |
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COTTAGE GARDENS |
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The Cottage Gardener Heirloom Plant Nursery
Heirloom plant nursery specializing in historic perennials and annuals, traditional herbs,
heirloom vegetables
English Cottage
Gardening - American Style An excellent interactive, gardening reference manual on
CD-ROM, packed with a rich assortment of perennials, annuals, bulbs, shrubs, ornamental
grasses and small evergreens, each with a full color picture and care instructions.
'Useful Lists' really are useful, and photo essays on topics such as garden tools,
container gardening are inspirational. The 'Calendar of Perennials' helps the gardener
choose a plant by month of bloom, then color.
Heritage Flower Farm A
nursery specializing in antique (heirloom) varieties of perennial flower plants. Also
offers "garden school" and historical garden walks. Located in Southeastern
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DESIGNED GARDENS
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Althorp The Spencer family ancestral home and garden,
where Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest in September 1997.
Arnold Arboretum Home Page
The Arnold Arboretum manages a collection of hardy trees, shrubs, and vines located on 265
acres in Boston. The grounds were designed by Charles Sprague Sargent, in collaboration
with the landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted.
Biblical Gardens at the First
Congregational Church of Fair Haven, Vermont photos, Biblical background, links to
biblical gardens worldwide and resources, and various biblical gardens.
Callaway Gardens A
year-round garden with 2,500 acres of cultivated foliage, in Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA.
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens designed by
Beatrix Farrand and owned by Harvard University. The institution has research resources in
the history of landscape architecture and Pre-Columbian studies.
Filoli Center The Filoli garden
represents the "Golden Age of American Gardens" with house and gardens designed
as complimentary units.
Giverny - Vernon:
Impressionist gardens The garden belonged to the French impressionist painter, Claude
Monet.
International Peace Garden A
garden on the US-Canadian border, devoted the theme of international peace.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan Eighty
acres of pleasure grounds with walled gardens and a productive vegetable garden, all being
restored to their former glory, St Austell, Cornwall, England.
Merriments Gardens A four acre
English garden on a southerly slope.
Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
Mount Vernon was the home of George Washington. Take a tour and see what President
Washington's home looked like when he was alive.
Old Westbury Gardens Old
Westbury Gardens has a Charles II style mansion, carefully planned formal gardens and
landscaped grounds.
Sonnenberg Gardens A Victorian
mansion and gardens located in Canandaigua New York state.
Vaux le Vicomte Official
website for the baroque gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte, 55 km south east of Paris, France. En
Français
Wave Hill Homepage Wave Hill has
gardens and greenhouses on 28 acres in the northwest Bronx.
Wilhelmshoehe Bergpark
Information about romantic/baroque hillside park at Wilhelmshoehe in Kassel, Germany.
Red House, Bexley Seminal Arts
and Crafts house designed by Philip Webb for William Morris. The Friends of the Red House
supply photographs and brief history.
Winterthur Museum, Garden &
Library The Winterthur website offers information on Winterthur Museum, Garden,and
Library in Delaware, the Historic Houses of Odessa, which are owned by Winterthur Museum. |
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JAPANESE GARDENS |
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Anderson Gardens, located in Rockford, Illinois,
USA Presenting the history, virtual tour, membership information, and more for this
Japanese garden.
Japanese
Gardens Aesthetic and philosophical concerns, plus the various elements which may be
included. Section on styles as yet incomplete. (3/99)
Japanese
Gardens at Holy Mountain Trading Virtual tour of San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden
in Golden Gate Park. Complementary articles of Japan's Ritsurin Koen garden, zen tea
poems, and the art of Japanese gardening.
Japanese garden granite
fountains, basins, Hand-carved granite for landscaping and Japanese gardens.
Japanese Garden Database A repository
of information on the historical gardens of Japan. Tour available on CD Rom.
Roth Bi-monthly journal of
Japanese gardening.
Seiwa-en The
largest Japanese garden in North America (14 acres), located in the Missouri Botanical
Garden of St. Louis. Zen inspired graphics and environmental sounds while you tour the
garden. |
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PRIVATE GARDENS |
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Backyard Gardener in The Pacific
Northwest Gardening in the Pacific NW. Encyclopedia, garden store, order seeds, garden
plans--huge amount of information from BackyardGardner.com.
Chandor Gardens Texas'
premier gardens with a 40-foot man-made waterfall, Chinese rock sculptures, English lawn
bowling green, lush garden rooms on 4 1/2 acres of maintained grounds. Available for
private weddings, guided tours and party rentals.
City
Jungles...gardens of passion! This New Orleans based site offers advice, humor and
inspiration to gardeners and cityscape/garden photographers.
Davi's Garden Tour
Stroll through my home garden on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia and enjoy
various aspects as well as our native birdlife.
Dirty Nails-Mountain Gardening
Garden on the mountain. Includes shack, bathtub garden and great humor.
Dublin Garden Group Private
gardens that open to the public in Dublin Ireland
Great Comp Garden Great
Comp Garden an enormous achievement by two people who had retired from a busy London life
Hulda Klager
Lilac Gardens Lilacs garden for all to enjoy. A private house that is open to the
public to visit our lilac garden.
Jeff's Garden A tour of a
private garden in the Pacific Northwest featuring roses, hostas, perennials and many other
plants.
Jim Handtmann's LandEscapes The
dream gardens and unique floral designs of obsessed landscaper Jim Handtmann.
Leonardslee Gardens A paradise
in spring, peaceful in summer and mellow in autumn. Leonardslee Gardens are often
described as the most beautiful gardens in Europe in the month of May.
Maggie's Garden in Texas Tour
a family garden in Texas built with a nostalgia for England, where border colors change
with the seasons and tiny wildlife turns tame. Weekly illustrated journal entries with
plant profiles and photo coverage of the varied beds through the seasons.
Miller's Garden Take a
tour of our Pacific Northwest Garden. Lots of gardening information with an emphasis on
perennials and also a page on soapmaking.
My Ulster Garden A
monthly record in pictures of the main features of my garden.
Nancy and Noel's
Gardens The Owlsperch The banks of the North Fork Lewis River near Woodland,
Washington. Our property is beautifully landscaped including: trees, shrubs, flowers and
vegetable gardens
Northern Gardening Northern
gardening is a good resource for all gardeners--especially those in a cold climate.
Articles on a variety of gardening subjects, photographs, and many gardening links.
A small Irish garden. Special
sections on Hardy geraniums, Clematis and Roses. I show how to make Hypertufa troughs .
A Southern Garden A
tour of an Alabama garden featuring antique roses, shrubs and perennials.
Tasmanian
Garden Journal (Suite101.com - scroll down). The gardens of Gay and Kees Klok who live
and tend to their gardens in the beautiful island state of Australia, Tasmania. Articles,
Ebook & photos.
Tasmanian gardeners
create Eden More gardening with the Kloks. Tasmanian couple build their own Eden.
Stories illustrated with stunning garden photos
UrbanGarden One gardener's
journal of garden favorties; photos, notes & plants tips for a Zone 8 Container
Garden.
Boyce Thompson Southwestern
Arboretum Founded in the 1920s near Superior, Arizona. There are plants from the
varied deserts and dry lands and alongside unspoiled examples of the native Sonoran Desert
vegetation. |
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PUBLIC
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Bamboo Garden at Foothill College A virtual tour,
with in-depth information about the 50 species of varieties of bamboo collected in the
garden.
Bellingrath Gardens & Home
Located on the Isle aux Oies River near Mobile, Alabama, Bellingrath Gardens is colorful
year-round with seasonal blooms.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens Home Page
The Birmingham Botanical Society, as a volunteer organization supporting the Birmingham
Botanical Gardens, promotes knowledge and appreciation of plants and the environment and
receives and administers resources for these purposes
Bonn
University Botanical Garden The history of the Botanic Garden, one of the oldest and
most traditional gardens north of the Alps, goes back more than 400 years.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden News about
Garden programs, events and activities, a virtual tour, articles about gardening, online
shopping for gardening books, botanical research, name the plant contest, information for
visitors.
Chanticleer Garden A
breath-taking 30 acre pleasure botanical garden near Philadelphia featuring perennials,
tropicals, containers, woodlands, and wildflowers.
Chicago Botanic Garden Home Page
The second most visited botanic garden in the United States, with 23 spectacular gardens
on 385 acres.
Denver Botanic Gardens An
oasis in an urban setting. Inside, the lobby court display changes seasonally,
highlighting tropical plants, cacti and succulents, flowering bulbs. Outside, there is
always something blooming in the world-renowned Rock Alpine Garden, or visitors can stroll
through the Japanese, Plains, Water, Herb, Vegetable, Scripture or Water-Smart gardens.
Descanso Gardens A 160-acre
public garden located twenty minutes from downtown Los Angeles in La Cañada Flintridge.
Desert Botanical Garden The purpose of
the Desert Botanical Garden is to exhibit, conserve, study and disseminate knowledge of
arid-land plants of the world, with a particular emphasis on succulents and the native
flora of the Southwestern United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona.
Devonian Botanic Garden
Devonian Botanic Garden, there will always be something special to see. However, you may
wish to come often to appreciate the various gardens at their best
Dothan Area Botanical Gardens The
Dothan Area Botanical Gardens seek to preserve the spirit and beauty of the early southern
garden in an environment that presents native plants in an attractive balance with
traditional botanical garden elements.
Hakone Gardens Japanese gardens built
in 1918 in Saratoga, California. Includes koi pond , Zen and Tea gardens, and a bamboo
park.
Huntsville Botanical Garden The
Huntsville-Madison County (Alabama) Botanical Garden merges the timeless beauty of nature
with the technology of the surrounding scientific community.
I Love Gardens Over 1,500
listings of glorious public and private gardens for garden lovers to visit in the U.S.
Key West Audubon House &
Tropical Gardens The gardens are located in sunny Key West Florida.
Longwood Gardens - Home Page
Longwood Gardens was created by industrialist Pierre S. du Pont and offers 1,050 acres
(425 hectares) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows.
Margery Fish Garden at East
Lambrook Manor Internationally famous Grade I Listed 'cottage garden' specialising in
rare plants and the National Collection of Geraniums.
Matthaei Botanical
Gardens U-M's 350 acre resource for research and education on plants and the
environment
Milwaukee
County Public Gardens and Nature Centers Online tours of Boerner Botanical Gardens and
the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. Includes historical notes and visitor
information.
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY
The New York Botanical Garden includes 28 speciality gardens - Enid A. Haupt Conservatory,
Everett Children's Adventure Garden, and a 40-acre never been clear cut Forest.
North Carolina Arboretum The NC
Arboretum focuses on the education, economic development, research, conservation, and
garden demonstration with respect to landscape, architecture, and plant sciences. The
426-acre site is nestled in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the United
States.
Quail Botanical Gardens Quail
Botanical Gardens near San Diego, California, is a place of beauty in all seasons. Ancient
cycads, majestic palms, flowering trees and the largest bamboo collection in the United
States are part of the diverse and botanically important collections you will discover
here.
The Ruth Bancroft Garden
The garden shows how to create beauty and excitement possible in a water-conserving
landscape.
Selby Botanical Gardens These public
gardens in Sarasota, Florida feature tropical plants, with special emphasis on epiphytic
plants, and provide programs of conservation, displays, education and research.
Strybing Arboretum & Botanical
Gardens Strybing Arboretum & Botanical Gardens features a spectacular array of
plants from the world's Mediterranean and mild temperate climates, to high-elevation
tropical cloud forests.
Trebah Garden An exotic
tropical haven situtated in Falmouth, Cornwall, England. The garden offers visitors
touring Cornwall the opportunity to explore a public garden offering a variety of
rhododendrons, palms, exotic plants, water gardens, woods, private beach, wild plants and
a garden shop.
Tropical Botanical Garden
Botanical garden on Costa rica's Caribbean coast with over 60 tropical fruits, spices,
ornamentals. Tours and rainforest hikes.
University of
California/Berkley Botanical Garden The garden was established in 1890 as a museum of
living plants representing the world's major floras.
University of Washington Medicinal
Herb Garden Home Page Located on the campus the University of Washington in Seattle,
the Medicinal Herb Garden is a resource for herbalists, medics, and botanists of all
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