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Colorado State University Cooperative Extension: Gardening & Horticulture

Hosted by Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, this website shares a wealth of resources about different aspects of gardening and horticulture. The site features sections on Integrated Pest Management, Trees, Vegetables, Flowers, and much more. The site also offers information on house plants, gardening with children, lawns, and xeriscape gardening. A site glossary is included as well,...

https://denver.extension.colostate.edu/programs/horticulture...
Conservatory of Flowers

San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park has recently reopened to the public after a year of renovation to repair damage from a devastating windstorm in 1995. The Conservatory's attractive Web site offers a virtual tour, highlighting the Conservatory's "dramatic new exhibits and horticultural displays." Visitors can also learn more about featured plants (palms, at the moment),...

https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/
Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural Library

Tucked away within the numerous specialized subject libraries at the University of Washington is a gem known as the Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural Library. The library has several main directives, including service to the Center of Urban Horticulture (which is located on campus as well) and as a clearinghouse of gardening material for the general public. While much of the material available...

http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/
International Society for Horticultural Science

With 7,000 members located across the world, the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) is an organization that promotes and encourages research and education in all branches of horticultural science. Some of the materials on their site are only available to dues-paying members, but there are a few free highlights here. First, visitors may want to look over the "Publications" area....

https://www.ishs.org/
Mark's Fruit Crops

Created by Mark Rieger, a Professor of Horticulture at the University of Georgia, Mark's Fruit Crops is a great educational website on the world's major fruit crops. The site features a Fruit Crops Encyclopedia containing links to information about different types of fruit. The separate fruit pages include attractive photographs intermingled with brief sections on Origin, History of Cultivation,...

https://www.fruit-crops.com/
The Gesneriad Reference Web

Fifty-four new high-resolution images have just been added to Ronald Myhr's site devoted to gesneriads, a large family of tropical herbs and shrubs, including gloxinias and African violets. Almost 300 color images are available, accessible either alphabetically by Latin name, or as thumbnail photos under the corresponding genus pages (listed in the section labeled Gesneriad Genera). In addition to...

https://gesneriads.info/new-gesneriad-reference-web/