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Gardening Ideas Bloom on the Web
By Robin Nobles If you enjoy gardening, the Internet is the perfect spot to begin your gardening research. You'll discover what can be grown at specific times of year, what plants do well in the shade, what plants are hardy in very dry areas, and much more. Let's visit a no nonsense site that packs a mean punch of information, the WWW Virtual Library for Gardening. Are you interested in regional gardening information, or forums where you can ask questions of gardening experts? Or, would you like to participate in forums for specific topics, such as Daylilies or Irises? You'll find a link to the USDA's plant database, or you can enter a plant name and search for information on the plants of your choice. http://www.gardenweb.com/vl/ Ohio State University provides an impressive source of information on plants at their Factsheet Database. Over 20,000 pages of information are available from over 46 different universities and institutions in the U.S. and Canada, so that you receive the most concentrated source of plant-related information on the Web. http://plantfacts.osu.edu/ Horticulture Magazine provides an outstanding website for gardeners. You can view a slide show of the great gardens of the world, or visit the Plant Finder to learn what plants are perfect for your garden. Select the various options that are pertinent to your garden or that are important to you, such as soil composition, flowering plants, season of bloom, planting time, and so forth, and then let the Plant Finder tell you what would work best for your garden. Gardening Articles! A gardening article wouldn't be complete without a trip to Better Homes and Gardens Online Garden Home Page. Learn what to plant in hard-to-grow places, or how to build window boxes. Look over their problem-solving garden plans, or read gardening articles by expert gardeners. http://www.bhg.com/bhg/gardening/index.jhtml ---------- Reprint permission for Internet use (use on web sites or in e- newsletters) is granted only if all information below this notice, including the WWIO web site link and authors biography are included as written. For use in other printed media e-mail: robin@robinsnest.com ---------- Robin Nobles is a freelance writer whose articles on surfing the Web are published in six newspapers regularly. She also writes articles about the Web and Internet in publications such as Internet Newsroom, InfoAlert, WebVantage, CompuNotes, ChipNET, The Sunshine Post, Bridges Initiatives, and more. She can be reached at robin@robinsnest.com or through her website: Robin's Nest for Writers and Web Surfers - http://www.robinsnest.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by World Wide Information Outlet (WWIO) your source of FREEWare Content online. Located on the Internet at: http://certificate.net/wwio/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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