Horticulture

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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 IMG_6806a 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

ttps://FantastiFungi.com

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

http://www.cvent.com/events/living-on-a-few-acres-fruit-production-webinar/event-summary-10644a116d4c4f59b9feda5bf61ab591.aspx?i=dd5510f4-df72-49b5-9ff8-13e326f59838