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Gardening
Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow. All it takes is a rake and a hoe, and a piece of fertile ground. Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow. Someone warm them from below till the rain comes tumblin' down.
Dave Mallet
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Justice in the garden
Many of us like to work in our gardens. But sometimes our efforts to grow pretty flowers and shrubs are foiled by the denizens of the surrounding woods and the many trees that shade our yards. Here's a little justice in the garden that many gardeners might find amusing, and one more display of how recycling and composting benefits the garden.
- After Behnkes, Where to Buy Plants In Prince George's and Anne Arundel Counties, MD
- Beyond Behnke's Blog
- Better Homes and Gardens Online
- Birds & Blooms
- Bonsai Gardening: How to Grow Bonsai for Beginners
- Bonzai Pots & Supplies
- Botanical Watercolors:
- Search the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection from the National Agricultural Library (NAL) Collections. The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, housed at the NAL in Beltsville, Maryland, includes more than 7,583 drawings of fruit and nut specimens.
- Burpee Gardens
- Companion Plants
"My Sweet Rose" by John Waterhouse - Compost resources
- Earth Day Garden Planning: Consider the Climate's New Normal Updated
- Shifts in U.S. planting zones between 1971-2000 and 1981-2010
- When to Plant Vegetables in Washington, D.C. and Maryland both Spring and Fall planting guides from The National Gardening Association (NGA)
- eFloras.org family lists of flora of North America, Chile, China, Equador, Missouri: genus, species, taxonomic names, etc.
- Flora of North America (FNA) Project provides information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
- Flower / Plant Delivery
- FTD Flower Delivery
- Orchid Mall
- Petals silk flowers
- Proflower Delivery
- Gardeners Eden
- Gardener's Supply Company
- Gardening Forums
- Seven of the World's Dreamiest Garden Rooms
- Garden Guides
- Garden Talk
- Garden Web Forums
- Herbs
- Home and Garden Information Center for Maryland
- Ikebana and Japanese Flower Arranging
- Plants by Mail
- Plants Delight Nursery
- Plow & Hearth
- American Meadows Wildflowers
- Renee's Garden for heirloom & gourmet vegetable, flower & herb seeds
- Richter's Herb and Vegetable Catalogue
- Tomato Bob's Heirloom Tomatoes and Vegetables specializes in rare and unique heirloom tomato varieties as well as over 200 varieties of heirloom vegetables once offered in American seed catalogs from the late 1800s
- Wayside Gardens
- What Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac Look Like
- White Flower Farm
- Wildseed Farms
- Womanswork Gloves
- Worm Farms for composting:
