Links to Horticultural Information on the Web

This is just a sample of various gardening/horticulture related pages on the web, periodically updated as quality gardening sites are found. If you find a dead link, please let me know.

Note: some links go to the Texas A&M AgriLife Bookstore. Many of the downloads are free, but you must first register, even for free pubs.

(Updated 12/6/13 )

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

Kids Gardening
Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Display Gardens
Horticulture Organizations and Associations
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
Texas Nursery, Floral and Landscape Network
Outstanding Landscape Plants for East Texas
PlantAnswers horticultural publications
Extension Online Publications

Plant Search Sites:

Search AggieHorticulture
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

Questions About Bulbs
Camellias

Northeast Texas

Clemson

Georgia

Alabama
Daylilies

American Hemerocallis Society Home Page
Herbs

Growing Herbs in Texas
Herbs
The Herb Society of America
Hostas

East Texas Hosta Variety Trial results (2000)

Hostas (Univ. of Georgia)

Hostas (Clemson)

Hosta research on affects of chilling (Auburn)

Hostas (several articles on Plant Delights web site - note, a commercial site)
Iris

Clemson
Native Texas Plants

Native Texas Shrubs

Native Texas Trees

Orchids
Growing Phalaenopsis

Growing Cymbidiums

Dotty Woodson's Orchids (video)

American Orchid Society

Perennials

Perennials for Texas Landscapes - a Partial List (Bill Welch)

Perennial Garden Color (Bill Welch)

Herbaceous Perennials TAMU database
Roses

Earth-Kind Roses

Outstanding Roses for Texas Database Search

The Rose Resource (AARS)
Water Gardens & Plants

Water Gardening in Texas
Plants for Problem Places

Landscape Plants for Wet Sites (written for North Carolina)

Vegetables:

Home Vegetable Gardening resources (Aggie Horticulture site)
Hydroponics (commercial)
Tomato Problem Solver
Curcurbit Problem Solver
Texas A&M VegIPM site
Noble Foundation Publications (lots of information on hoop houses, raised bed gardening, greenhouses (including construction details, etc.) ** Use the Keyword Search function for specific topics **
Organic Controls for Vegetable Insects (Virginia Tech)

Fruits and Nuts:

Trees:

Turfgrass:

Aggie Turf Web Site (both home and commercial turf info - Click on Turf Answers 4 You)
Lawn Establishment & Management
Lawn Insect Management
- Chinch Bugs in St. Augustine Lawns
Lawn Disease Management
- Warm-Season Turf Disease Management in Urban Landscapes
- Take-All Root Rot of Turfgrass
Sprayer Calibration for Turfgrass
Thatch Management for Home Lawns
Weed Management
- Sandbur or Grassbur Control
- Weed Images (lots of them! Searchable, too)
- Weed web sites (lots of links)
Plant Answers Turf Information & Articles

Water & Drought Issues:

Earth-Kind Drought Preparedness (for the urban landscape)
Earth-Kind Drought Management (for commercial horticulture)
East Texas Water Conservation
TexasET Network (Potential Evapotranspiration) Web Site
- News release on using the Texas ET network site
Northeast Texas PET (Potential Evapotranspiration) Web Site
Keep Your Lawn Alive During Drought
Irrigating Lawns During a Drought
Lots of drought resources
Drought Tolerant Shrubs (North Carolina)

Soils and Composting:

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"
Horticulture and Youth Links
Gardening Launch Pad's Kids Links
Flowers, Plants & Gardening: For Kids! (a great resource on a commercial florist site in the UK - note, external links have not been checked)
Interactive Plant Biology: A Kid's Guide to the Life Cycle of a Flower (another commercial florist site with good links - note, external links have not been all checked)

Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Display Gardens:

IDEA Garden in the Tyler Rose Garden
Other Master Gardener demo gardens in the Tyler Rose Garden
Tyler Rose Garden
East Texas Arboretum (Athens, TX)
Public Garden Search (search for a public garden near you or on your next vaction trip)
East Texas Bedding Plant Pack and Garden Trials (not a public garden, but holds an open Horticulture Field at the end of June every year)
The SFA (Stephen F. Austin State Univ.) Mast Arboretum, Nacogdoches, Texas - a real jewel for plant lovers!
Dallas Arboretum
Fort Worth Botanical Garden
The United States National Arboretum
The University of Georgia Trial Gardens
JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University

Horticulture Organizations & Associations:

Pests, Pest Management, Insects and Pesticides:

Diseases

Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic

Tomato Problem Solver

Curcurbit Problem Solver

Watermelon Diseases

Texas Plant Disease Handbook (links for Vegetable, Fruit, Lawn/Turf, Flowers, Landscape Plant common diseases,descriptions and controls)
Insects

Extension entomology publications (needs Acrobat to read - download links provided)

Fire Ant Control Project Site

Termites and other urban pests

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 Texas 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
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 Vegetable Production IPM Guide

Cornell Vegetable IPM website

Vegetable IPM

Wildlife Damage & Management

Mole Article and Links

Extension Wildlife Damage

Wildlife Management, Nebraska Extension Publications

Biological Pest Control

Beneficals in the Garden and Landscape (Galveston County Master Gardeners)

Suppliers of Beneficial Organisms in North America

Bees: Raising Mason Bees - NC State

Beneficial Insects (slide show) - Virginia

Beneficial Organisms - Florida

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

National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS)

Natural Insecticides - New Mexico

Pheromones for Insect Management - New Mexico

Butterflies, Birds & Other Wildlife:

Butterflies in the Garden (East Texas)

Order form for Texas Butterfly Color Wheel produced by Texas A&M

Lots of Butterfly & Moth links

The North American Butterfly Association

Miscellaneous:

Sun Safety and Skin Cancer

Moving Houseplants Guide (Atlas Van Lines Co.)

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

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