Internet Gardening Sites
A listing of some of the sites that we think are
interesting and useful. If you have some favorite gardening
sites that you'd like to share, send us email with a brief description
of the site and its URL, to HumeSeeds@aol.com.
Please note that we are not necessarily endorsing the
companies, products or opinions that are part of the sites.
We just think the sites may be of interest to you.
Informational Sites
These sites have a generally high informational
content.
- Gardening in the Cabbage Patch -
Great information on gardening in really cold
climates. Located in Fairbanks Alaska.
- Boeing Employees' Garden Club
- Boston
Gardens - Gardening
events, tips, articles and more from the Greater Boston Area and
Massachusetts in general. Well designed, lots of great
pictures and information.
- Map & Links to State Cooperative
Extension Services - Use this US map to find your nearest
Extension Service website.
- Cornell
University horticultural links page
- Loads of links to garden related web sites.
- Coenosium
Gardens - Lots of
information on conifers.
- The
Flower Expert - The
Flower Expert is an Online Flower Encyclopedia, which provides
comprehensive information on Flowers and Flower related Topics.
- GardenWeb
- A gardening community
where you can post questions and get quick answers.
- Gardening Guides.com - Offers a
great collection of carefully selected gardening ideas, tips and
tricks.
- Ginko
biloba - Everything you
want to know about the Ginko biloba tree.
- GRuB - Kitchen Garden Project - Ed Hume Seeds donates to this project.
- LaConner Flats Vegetable Trials - Home
of vegetable trials in WA.
- Pacific
Northwest Gardening - A
site with loads of information on gardening in the Pacific NW.
Lots of links, too.
- Poison Information on Plants -
Cornell University information about poisonous plants.
- Poison
Information on Plants of Canada
- Canadian information about poisonous plants.
- Massachusetts Chapter of the American
Rhododendron Society
- Two Rainy
Side Gardeners - A well
designed site with lots of information for the NW gardener.
Includes articles, resources, native plants, edibles,
ornamentals, gardening events in the NW and much more.
- Skagit
Valley Tulip Festival -
Find out everything you need to know about this year's festival (April
1st to April 30th, 2007). A graphics intensive site.
- WSU
Fruit Horticulture - The Fruit Horticulture program at Mount
Vernon includes a wide range of projects, covering tree fruit, grapes,
berries and unusual fruit such as as figs, kiwi, sea buckthorn and
aronia, and ornamental crabapples as well..
- Gardening
at About.com - A
frequently updated site with lots of general gardening information and
an extensive list of links to other gardening sites.
- The Garden Helper - A great site
to get your gardening questions answered. Also has some good
web graphics and animations.
- Veggie
Gardener - General vegetable gardening tips.
- Christmas Cactus on
Wikipedia
- on WikiHow
Commercial Sites
- A
Bird's World.com - A great
source for "Premium Birding Products". They donate a part of
their profits to charity.
- Close
to Infinity - Home
of the Brunton Macroscope that is advertised on Ed's radio program.
- Free Trees and Plants - Website
of Garden writer and photographer Cheryl Richter. Ms. Richter
finds unsold trees and plants and hires disabled workers to package
them. She then sends the plants to anyone who reserves them for the
cost of shipping and handling.
- Garden Expressions - A site
selling artistic garden accessories.
- Gardener's
Paradise
- A site with some general gardening tips.
- Golden
Harvest Web Site - This
site has lots of information about natural remedies for garden
problems, companion planting, organic gardening and links to other
gardening sites.
- Hume Seed
Finder - Useful seed planting tool. Not affiliated with Ed
Hume Seeds
- Molbaks
- A full service
retail nursery in the Pacific NW. Yes, they carry our seeds.
- Plantea
Website - Need more
information about the Plantea you bought from our seed rack? or maybe
just larger quantities? or just some info about growing in a
truly cool climate (Alaska)? Try this website created by the
Marion Owen.
- Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinklers -
These are the sprinklers Ed has talked about on his radio show that
keep animals out of your garden.
- Sky
Nursery - A full service
retail nursery in the Pacific NW. Yes, they carry our seeds.
- Steelabilia
- Metal garden art and trellises.
- What's Cooking America - Edible Flowers
- A great spot to get recipes that use edible flowers. Be
sure to read their guidelines on eating flowers, first.
- Windmill
Nursery- A local NW
Nursery. Yes, they do carry our seeds.
- YourGarden.com
- A general
gardening site with articles from The English Garden Magazine and
Garden Ideas Magazine. Also includes a humor section and a
shopping area.
- See
why
daylilies are the perfect perennial. - Daylilies, native of
the orient are perfect for ornamental gardens, container gardening,
perennial landscaping and much more.
- Windowbox.com
- A source for the
information and supplies you need to grow flowers, vegetables, and
herbs in any container on your porch, deck, terrace, patio, or
windowsill.
Non-Gardening Sites
- Northwest Harvest - Fighting
Hunger in Washington State since 1967.
- TESC
- The Evergreen State
College.
- Second
Nature Software - Makers
of Slide Show: a great screen saver and background changer program.
All of their after tax profits go to charitable organizations
like The Nature Conservancy.
- February
Paper - Suppliers of
specialty and art paper. Many of the backgrounds on this site
(including this one) are scans of their paper.
- South
Passage Outfitters - Just
across from Glacier Bay, the place for outdoor enthusiasts and
adventurers to experience the real Alaska.
Search Sites
-
Open
Directory Project - The Open Directory Project is the
largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is
constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer
editors.
-
AgriSurf - The farmer's search engine.
http://www.wikihow.com/Care-for-a-Christmas-Cactus
-
Buyer's
Index - The best search engine for Web and Catalog shopping
-
Alta
Vista - An interesting, general search engine.
-
Google
- This search engine has more of the web indexed than any of the
others.
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