Links

Links

This page consists of the following five sections:
(Click on section to jump to it.)

• 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 - further links to many resources
     OSU Extension
        OSU Extension - Cuyahoga County
        OSU Extension Center at Wooster
        OSU Extension -North Central Regional Office
  

Other Resource Links

• eXtension - an educational partnership of 74 land-grant universities in the United States.
• Common Problem 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
• The Garden Club of America
• The Herb Society of America
• International Bulb Society
• National Chrysanthemum Association
• The Royal Horticultural Society

Garden Tours

• Portal to tourable gardens in US and Canada, and links to other resources. 
• Arnold Aboreteum of Harvard - A list of collections including a great bonsai collection and bonsai information.
• Audubon House, Key West 
• Botanica:  The Wichita Gardens, Kansas
• Longwood Gardens  
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, The University of Texas at Austin
• National Arboretum - see United States National Arboretum
• The National Garden - see United States Botanic Garden
• The National Botanic Garden of Wales
• National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii and Florida.
• Norfolk Island Botanic Garden, Australia. Unique plant identification page.
• Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden
• Quail Botanical Gardens, San Diego....lots of cactus and desert plants. 
• Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, Cayman Islands. 
• San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum
• Sonneberg Gardens, Canandaigua, New York, near the Finger Lakes.
• Tallinn Botanic Garden, Estonia - photo gallery tropical plants and orchids
• United States Botanic Garden
• United States National Arboretum

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 Institute, video clips of Institute lectures in its Speakers Forum, and podcasts.
• University of Virginia Gardens site also features a clickable map with details of each Academical Village pavilion and garden