LINKS
Links to various horticultural resources and gardens are provided below in the following groupings:
(Click green for details)
OSU Links
Other Resource Links
Horticultural Societies
Garden Tours
Other Gardens



OSU Links:

• OhioLine
• --Factsheets - OSU factsheets - generally quick reference
• --Bulletins - OSU bulletins - longer, more comprehensive
• OSU Web Garden
• --PlantFacts - OSU data base
• ----Web search - national factsheet search
• ----Images (formerly Plant Dictionary) pictures of Ornamental plants, Turf, Plant Diseases, and Insects
• ----Videos - 200 short how-to videos
• ----FAQs - illustrated answers to over 800 commonly asked gardening questions
• ----Glossary - illustrated definitions of commonly used horticultural terms
• --Pocket Gardener - a downloadable garden reference
• --Garden Tips
• --Buckeye Yard & Garden onLine - timely information about Ohio growing conditions, pest, disease, and cultural problems
• Growing Degree Days & Phenology for Ohio - enter your zip code and obtain a calendar of developmental changes related to seasonal changes in your area
• The Ohio State University
• --Agriculural Technical Institute
• --Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
• ----OARDC Weather System
• ----USDA-ARS Research Weather Network
• --Secrest Arboretum
• --Horticulture & Crop Science Resources
• --OSU Extension
• ----OSU Extension - Cuyahoga County
• ----OSU Extension Center at Wooster
• ----OSU Extension -North Central Regional Office
  

Other Resource Links:

• Common Problems for Vegetable Crops - University of Illinois Extension
• AFWS-Cuyahoga County Recent Rainfall
• Encyclopedia of Life - a new project for the creation of an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. Watch as this site develops. Demonstration pages are now on line, real pages are expected in mid-2008, and it may be current in over 10 years. The project will never end due to new identifications and namings.
• USDA-ARS Family Guide for Fruits and Seeds - identification of fruits and seeds to family
• USDA-Natural Resources Conservaton Service Plants Database

The folling links are presented as a matter of general horitcultural interest, without any endorsement of the sponsoring entities or any of their practices, philosophies or products:

Horticultural Societies: See what is happening with your favorite Horticultural Group or find one you never knew existed! 

• American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta - see American Public Gardens Association
• All American Rose Selection Home Page
• American Bonsai Association
• American Daffodil Society
• American Dahlia Society
• American Horticultural Society
• American Hydrangea Society
• American Iris Society
• American Orchid Society
• American Public Gardens Association
• American Rose Society
• American Nursery and Landscape Association
• Botanica
• The Garden Club of America
• The Herb Society of America
• International Bulb Society
• National Chrysanthemum Association
• The Royal Horticultural Society
  
  

Garden Tours: Enjoy these great garden tours!

• View a list of all the tourable gardens in US and Canada. 
• Arnold Aboreteum of Harvard. A list of collections including a great bonsai collection and bonsai information.
• Audubon House Key West...be sure to check out the 360 degree garden 
  
• Longwood Gardens. Great photos of this wonderful garden. 
• Lady Bird Johnson Texas Wildflower Garden -The University of Texas at Austin
• The National Garden - see United States Botanic Garden
• The National Garden of Wales
• National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii and Florida.  
• Norfolk Island Botanic Garden, Australia. Unique plant identification page.
• Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden
  
• A Photo tour of Quail Gardens, San Diego....lots of cactus and desert plants. 
• Queen Elizabeth Botanic Park in the Cayman Islands. There are terrific pictures here. 
• Sonneberg Gardens, near the Finger Lakes. A very nice tour.
  
• In San Francisco, Strybing Arboretum ....nice photo tour 
• In Estonia, Tallinn Botanic Garden...nice photo gallery tropical plants and orchids
• United States Botanic Garden

Other Gardens: Enjoy these interesting gardens!

• Bartram's Garden - In the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area on a 45-acre site, the oldest botanic garden in the United States was founded in 1728.
• Colonial Williamsburg Gardens - In addition to its gardens, Colonial Williamsburg hosts an annual Garden Symposium each May.
• Thomas Jefferson's Monticello- The Monticello Explorer provides a tour of the gardens, and the site includes the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, its Twinleaf Journal Online, its biennial Historic Landscape Instituteand video clips of Institute lectures in its Speakers Forum.
• University of Virginia Gardens also features a clickable map with details of each Academical Village pavilion and garden