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Learn More About Horticulture Before You Teach

Learn More About Horticulture Before You Teach

This page links to handy web sites for answering basic gardening/horticulture questions of all types.

  • Virginia Cooperative Extension has tons of information on-line to answer your gardening questions. Start with this list of topics to look up your subject area in question.

  • The Virginia Gardener, from Virginia Cooperative Extension, has horticulture information organized and arranged by topic areas.

  • This site from NC State can provide all kinds of information on home and consumer horticulture. Search from this list of topics to find the information you need.

  • The Missouri Botanical Garden web site has lots of information on gardening. If you are looking for pictures of plants, you can find them here. There is also a children's page with activities about the environment.

  • Oregon Extension's gardening info web site has a lot of gardening information and advice, even some short 'audio advice' clips that you can play.

  • This Oklahoma 4-H Horticulture web site is a good jumping off point to several different sources of information on gardening questions. If you click on 4-H Horticulture Identification in the middle of the page, it takes you to color photos of many plants.

  • Click here for the index of all on-line horticulture publications from Oklahoma. You will find a wealth of information sheets on all different horticultural topics.

  • This Wisconsin 4-H site has pictures, descriptions, and uses of a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and flowers.

  • Plantfacts search engine taps into information from over 40 different universities and government institutions to answer your questions.

  • Green Web's Gardening Glossary lets you look up the definition of any gardening term you need.