Here's a list of helpful web sites for our members and gardening friends:
All-America Selections - Listing of All American plant selections by year back to 1933 with photos, seed & retail sources plus location of display gardens.
Antique Rose Emporium - The Antique Rose Emporium is your source for old garden and antique roses. They have two retail display gardens in Texas and offer mail order roses in 2 gallon roses from October through the end of April . Since 1984, they have offered vigorous, easy to grow, fragrant and long-lived roses.
Fine Gardening Magazine - A magazine site devoted to the fine art of gardening. Great online articles and lots of downloadable plans and ideas.
GardenWeb - largest gardening site on the Internet, with garden forums, articles on gardening, directories of nurseries, gardens and gardening organizations, a botanical glossary, an events calendar, a plant database, contests, and much more!
Garden Watchdog - There are 3,296 gardening vendors listed within the Garden Watchdog, including links to each company's website and email. 88% of them can be reached online. The name sums up their mission: they're here to protect and serve consumers by providing information on gardening companies.
Heirloom Roses - The world's most fragrant roses from a retail mail order nursery specializing in old, new and unusual roses. Heirloom Roses brings you the widest selection from the world's rose hybridizers.
Over the Fence - Fine Gardening's online forum, where you can learn from the veterans, share your own secrets of success, and simply chat about all things gardening.& Whether you're a beginner searching for ways to add a little pizzazz to your landscape or a certified green thumb eager to pass along your wisdom to the masses, you might find just what you're looking for right here.
Local Web Sites
Kansas City Nature Coalition - a collaboration of ten Kansas City Area organizations that built a website to serve as a single entrance portal to all of the various and separate websites of the group.
Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary - dedicated to providing habitat for wildlife and natural history education to the public. Offers various programs and educational activities throughout the year. Located in Liberty, Missouri.
Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City - provide the metropolitan Kansas City area with information, suggested solutions to current or anticipated problems, demonstrations and programs designed to educate the general public about gardening topics.
Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens - Located in southern Johnson County, the Arboretum has eight different biomes, or ecosystems, and many rare plant species. Nearly five miles of wood chip hiking trails wind through the Arboretum, with trees providing a canopy of shelter for walkers.
Powell Gardens - located just east of Kansas City, Missouri, their mission to inspire people to appreciate, beautify and conserve our natural environment. The Gardens' peaceful setting on 915 acres provides opportunities for learning and reflection through a year-round education program, research and special events.
Savvygardener.com - Gardening and related advice. Website and free weekly newsletter for gardeners and homeowners in the Kansas City Metro Area.
Water Garden Society of Greater Kansas City - dedicated to the construction, preservation, and appreciation of water gardens throughout the Kansas City metro area.
Extension Services - offering a wealth of information about gardening in our region!
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