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There are many sites about gardens, garden history and gardening. A sample of what seem to be the best are given here.
Cultivating Canadian Gardens: A History of Gardening in Canada 'The exhibition, "Cultivating Canadian Gardens", tells the story of the development of gardening in Canada through the books, periodicals, and printed materials collected, for the most part, by the National Library of Canada. It begins with the earliest recorded information on the plantings of the Hurons who had been tending their crops long before Europeans arrived in North America, and concludes with a brief look at the flood of printed material now available across the country.' Has a section on historic seed catalogues

Monsieur de Monville's Garden is a collection of thirty-six carefully chosen sites, in English and French, relating to landscape architecture, gardening, botany, and horticulture.landscape architecture, gardening, botany, horticulture.

Botanique Over 2,300 gardens, arboreta and nature sites in both Canada and the United States are listed in a searchable database. Other features include a gardening calendar.

Botany.com, the Encyclopedia of Plants, is a useful resource for gardeners.Includes plant descriptions, cultivation techniques, plant soil and temperature requirements, pruning, etc. and many varieties of hybrids

Famous Gardens and their Designers. An About.com site that provides a virtual tour of the great gardens of the world and an opportunity to enjoy the work of important landscape architects.

Fleurs des Champs. This French site contains illustrations and descriptions of the most common wildflowers found in France.

The Garden Gate is a rich and easily-navigated site. A "Reading Room", offering online books, magazines and catalogues. The "Teaching Garden" provides links to databases, glossaries, plant lists a garden shop and mailing lists, newsgroup,s and forums.

GardenWeb is considered to be the biggest gardening site on the web. Includes articles on gardening, nursery directories, gardening organizations, a dictionary with over 4,400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture, a calendar of events and a searchable plant database.

GardenWeb Forums allow you access to the collective wisdom of the thousands of other GardenWeb visitors. You canask about plant care, landscaping problems and other subjects. Over 90 different plants, geographic areas and topics are covered

Kew Web is the site of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Provides information about Kew and access to information and databases.

Museum of Garden History in London is the world's first museum of garden history. You can take a tour of the actual garden. Consult the database of plants. View the museum garden through the web cam.

PlantsGalore.com, provides an extensive list of gardening and horticulture resources on the Internet, including links to arboreta and horticultural gardens. Includes links also toplant clubs, societies and associations. There are approximately 3,000 gardens from around the world in its database.

The American Floral Endowment Research Database provides the results of its comprehensive research in order to aid florists and others to quickly locate scientific floriculture/horticulture information

The Botanical Garden Information System, is a bilingual site in German and English sponsored by Universität Ulm. Botanical gardens in almost 70 countries worldwide are catalogued. The listings are organized by country and is searchable by site-specific search engine.

Gardening Launch Pad, is the creation of a retired Garden Center Coordinator at the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin, Texas. It includes more than 4,680 links organized into dozens of categories. The site includesrecent and archived articles, a book store and a list ofrecommended vendors.

The Garden History, Visit and Travel Guide has a section on garden tours and maps of more than 1,000 historic gardens to visit in the British Isles, Europe and America.

Historic Gardens is the website of the Historic Garden Foundation. It aims to provide links between everyone concerned with the preservation, restoration and management of historic parks and gardens. Back issues of the Foundation's publication, the Historic Garden Review, which appears three times a year, are posted on the site. Also includes articles only available online and links.

Zen Gardens "The web site is dedicated to the gardens of Japan, and primarily to the historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs, including Nara. In this updated version, we have also included the Kenroku-en in Kanazawa as an example of the ambitious designs of the Tokugawa daimyo."