Horticulture
Flower show:
Audrey’s “How to exhibit Horticulture” information:
Exhibiting Horticulture in a Standard Flower Show
Liz’s “Exhibiting container grown specimens”: Exhibiting container-grown sepcimens.
Dorothy Steven’s “Good Grooming” from PHS: http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1051365988535073
Resources:
Spotted Lantern fly resources:
How to get Rid of Spotted Lantern Flies Naturally : http://bugwiz.com/get-rid-of-lanternflies/
Chemicals for killing the lantern fly http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/pdf/SLFHomeownerTreatmentRecs.pdf
Pl@ntNet an app Take photos of your plant and this app will identify it for you. It even does foliage.
Collins Nursery for native plants in Glenside Contact Diane Ehrlixh at (215) 715-3439 or by email at [email protected] to make an appointment. Visit the website at www.collinsnursery.com for more information about the nursery.
Doug Tallamy’s Blog. Doug is a noted author of Bringing Nature Home and an entomologist ant the University of Delaware. http://www.humansandnature.org/blog
George Weigel’s gardening website with a blog and much information about the garden George Weigel’s website
The Garden helper: Lots of information about gardens, plants, house plants pests, inc. Clever icons helps you find categories of plants, e.g. red deer proof http://www.thegardenhelper.com/index.html
Plantipedia — Allows searches of plants by botanical name, genus name, family name and common name. Ask you to join, but you seem to be able to search without that. Look carefully for Photo links http://www.plantipedia.com
Missouri Botanical Garden — Allows searches of plants by botanical name, genus name, family name and common name. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx
Dave’s Garden — Contains plant files, bug files and bird files. You can look up clematis and see a whole list of photos http://davesgarden.com/guides/
Plant families Online Plant Family Guide. Click on a plant family and you will see many examples http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biodiversity/floweringplants/Intro.htm
Dr. Carr’s University of Hawaii Botany Website. This also shows plant families with photos. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/alpha_cronq_judd_apgii.htm
*The Plant List: Look up information about a known plant with the Latin binomial http://www.theplantlist.org/
General gardening information for the beginner including planting, pollinators, terms and how-to’s. http://couponfollow.com/research/diy-gardening-and-landscaping-ideas
Growing an herb garden: http://www.perfume.com/article-growing-fragrant-herbs
The American Daffodil Society www.daffodilusa.org. for an illustrated list of the divisions: http://daffodilusa.org/daffodil-info/daffodil-divisions-cultivars/
Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society http://www.philadahlia.org
Advice:
Penn State Extension Service Plant care articles: Home Horticulture Hotline 610-489-4315 M-F 10-1 www.extension.psu.edu
Clivia directions from Ed MacFarland
Deer resistant plants from Rutgers
Websites on Gardening and/or Environmental Stewardship and/or helping pollinators and wildlife
http://www.nwf.org/ National Wildlife Federation
Audubon Society: http://www.audubon.org/
Xerces Society: http://xerces.org/earth-week
Academy of Natural Science Earth Week activities:
http://ansp.org/programs-and-events/festivals/earth-week/
Stroud Water Research Center: http://stroudcenter.org
Garden Websites created for stay-cation education and entertainment:
Longwood Gardens: http://longwoodgardens.org/ New website “Our Garden, Your Home”
Scott Arboretum: http://www.scottarboretum.org/
“Garden of Ideas” to sustain the body, enchant the eye, and sooth the spirit
Morris Arboretum: http://www.morrisarboretum.org/ “Morris from Home”
Tyler Arboretum: http://tylerarboretum.org/
Local Gardening Information
Penn State Extension: http://extension.psu.edu/programs/master-gardener/counties/chester This this
website offers information and a hot line to send questions