American Horticultural Society

Andy's Northern Ontario Wildflower Page:   Photos and extensive information on northern wildflowers and their habitat.

Magnar Aspaker’s Artic Perennial Page:  From North Norway, 200 km north of the arctic circle comes over 105 photos and over 450 descriptions of perennials.

Bachman's Garden Care Sheets: Garden and yard care factsheets from Minnesota's Bachman Garden Center

BobVilla.com: Bob Villa was one of the first how-to guys and his website has a good section on Yard and Gardens hosted by the garden columnist for the Boston Globe, Ruth S. Foster. 

Canadian Gardening Magazine: A great site to get ideas for your own northern garden!

Charlotte's Daylily Diary: Charlotte grows over 285 different varieties of daylilies in her southern Quebec gardens.

Tom Clothier's Garden Walk and Talk: Tom starts over 1700 plants from seed every year. His articles are very entertaining and instructive.

Cold Climate Gardening Weblog: Kathy Purdy started this collaborative blog for cold climate gardeners from novice to master.

Conservation Minnesota:   Whether you are a hunter, an angler, or a concerned parent, they are working with you to protect the Minnesota you love.     

DaisyMoore .com: Daisy Moore is a garden designer living in Toronto and her webpage has a lot of good gardening tips and articles.

EmilyCompost.com: Evy McGinness (also known as Emily Compost) passed away on July 15, 2004, but her website is still up dispensing her down-to-earth inspiration to gardeners everywhere.

English Cottage Gardening, Alaskan Style!:   Wonderful photos of a real English cottage garden...growing in Alaska!

EverythingAbout.net:   Everything about arachnids, bees, bugs, spiders and wasps.

Explore Cornell--Home Gardening:   Want to know about vegies--it's there. Flowers?  It's there. Lawn care? Yup. You will find it all at this site.

A Flower Arranger's Garden:  From Great Britain comes a charming webpage that will make most northern gardeners ill--only because we can't grow most of the plants in Chrissie Harten's gardens!  Lots of wonderful photos of her gardens in progress .

Fran's Gardening Home Page: Fran (a Missouri Master Gardener)  and her friends share their gardening insights and tips.

Garden Forever: None of us is getting any younger and this site has good information on how we can all continue gardening for the rest of our lives.

Garden Guide with Robert and Cheryl Gough:   A plethora of articles on northern gardening from Montana State University Horticulture Specialists.

GardenGuides: Guides on a variety of gardening subjects.

Gardening for Life:  From Canada comes a program that supports the idea of natural gardening including such things as careful use of water, tree planting for home energy efficiency, and avoiding the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

The Garden Net: An informative site from Bob Matthews in Rochester, New York.

Get Growing Gardening Tips!: Gardening advice from Dr. Michael Hickman, Associate Director of the University of Alberta’s Devonian Botanic Garden. 

Doug Green's Gardening Tips:  A very informative site from a fellow garden writer. 

 The Helpful Gardener:   Articles on a variety of subjects of interest to all gardeners.

Hort.net: A great collection of plant photos, also garden news and lots of good links.  

How Stuff Works:  Ever wondered how bug zappers or solar lights work?

I Can Garden: From St. Albert, Alberta Canada, a good resource for all northern gardeners.

An Irish County Garden:   Okay I am Irish, but I still think this is a fascinating pictorial history of how an Irish gardener transformed her cottage garden.     

Ilona’s Garden : Ilona gardens in central Ohio and I know you'll enjoy her enthusiasm for gardening.

Landscape Irrigation Tutorials:  Everything you ever wanted to know about installing your own irrigation system.

Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest:   The University of Wisconsin-Madison has put together an excellent woody plants resource for those in zones 3, 4 and 5.

LivingWithBugs.com:   We wish we didn't have to think about insect pests, but unfortunately it is a fact of life...it is us or them.  Lots of good factsheets on least-toxic pest control from aphids to yellowjackets.

The Minnesota Extension Service

Moosey's Country Garden: Mary (Moosey) gardens in Christchurch,  New Zealand and her son has perfectly captured her enthusiasm for gardening in this truly exceptional website.

MnDot's Plant Selection Site:  A plant selection and identification site from our own Minnesota Dept. of Transportation.

My Country Garden: Beautiful garden photos from the lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada.

My Northern Garden:   Mary Schier has a very entertaining blog where she talks about her experiences as a northern gardener, garden writer and editor of Northern Gardener magazine.     

National Gardening Assn. Magazine: Articles on a variety of subjects such as gardening for wildlife and a page with gardening "news."

Northscaping.com:   Canadian Jim Kohut, a fellow Northern Gardener columnist, has created a wonderful gathering place on the web for northern landscapers and gardeners.

OG Magazine: Organic Gardening...the magazine.

Organic Gardening Tips from Marion Ross:   A garden writer in Alaska shares her articles on organic gardening .

Perennial Gardening on the Prairies: From Maureen and Glen Lee in Regina, SK, Canada comes their collection of over 1600 photos of northern plants and flowers.

Perry's Perennial Pages:. Leonard P. Perry is an Extension Professor at the University of Vermont.

Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Series: Landscaping to be lower-maintenance.

University of MN Gardening Info Page:   A new website that makes it easy to get to all the University of Minnesota horticultural information on the Web.