CONIFER/PLANT/GARDEN/SOCIETY LINKS

UPDATED JANUARY 27, 2008

The following links are to sites that Bob likes to visit. Each one offers information related to the world of plants.

This link will take you to a page of quicklinks to many sites that I use for my research related to my teaching as well as my work with plants.  Quicklinks

An educator friend from my days at Tamaqua High School in Pennsylvania started his own recording business in the late 1990's. His music has a different "feel" to it. He records and writes and publishes his own work. A visit to his web site might be interesting. You can even play some pieces of his music:  Dr. B

Two of my Hungarian friends have a site with nice photos: Melinda and Lazslo

Jan Slama lives in the Czech Republic and he is a very enthusiastic collector of witches' brooms. He has put together a web site in Czech and English about his garden and searches for brooms. His site has many good photographs of plants and witches' brooms.  Jan Slama

For a site with a lot of gardening information and well organized links to many different sources of plants try Gardenguides

An excellent site for anyone wanting to learn more about plants through a university botany department:  The Virtual Foliage Home Page!

If you want to know more about Japanese gardens, try this site:  Japanese Garden Database

We called JC a friend and miss being able to talk with him from time to time. Visit his arboretum and download some of his past newsletters:  JC Raulston Arboretum Home Page

The official site for the NARGS has lots of plant information but needs more conifer information:  North American Rock Garden Society

A bonsai site with a lot of good information and a variety of bonsai links is found here:   Brian's Bonsai Site

A site by a local radio/tv personality, Ed Hume, has a lot of good information for the gardener:   Ed Hume Seeds Garden Site

A number of these used book stores have their inventory on the web and will often carry some real gems.: Pacific Northwest Used Bookstore Guide

Rhododendrons make nice companions for conifers. Of course, a rhododendron collector says conifers make nice companions for rhododendrons:  The American Rhododendron Society

A friend of ours owns a nursery that supplies many rare and unusual alpines and perennials. Here is a link to her site: Collector's Nursery

Another site for exchanging answers and questions with people from all over the world:   The GardenWeb Forums

Kew is a gardener's Mecca and has a great site:  The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, WWW server

This is the premier source of new gardening books: Gardening Books from Timber Press

If you want access to a good book about the Gotelli Dwarf Conifer Collection at the United States National Arboretum, here is a link to the publisher's site: barton-bradley crossroads pub. co.

Heather is a great companion plant for conifers and a lot of information about heather may be found at  The Heather Society .

An excellent source for information about heathers and plants that are top quality for a reasonable price visit a Northwest mail order heather nursery: Heaths and Heathers.

This site has been set up by Larry Hatch and has loads of plant information: New Ornamentals Society

Being both a plantsman and a science teacher, Bob finds this site very interesting: The Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages

Cornell University has a most informative site: Cornell Floriculture & Ornamental Horticulture Homepage

A comprehensive site about the world's conifer species: Gymnosperm Database

A handy site that has not been updated for a while but has a comprehensive listing of definitions for plant name roots: Garden Gate

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