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Gardening

 

Scope

This guide is designed to assist the user in finding and using credible information on gardening and landscaping.

 

Subject Headings and Search Terms

Suggested search terms include:

Gardening Flowers Annuals
Herbs Fruits Perennials
Landscaping Vegetables Wild flower gardening
Horticulture Organic gardening Gardens
Botanical gardening    

 

Books, Videos and Periodicals

Use the Moraine Park catalog to find books, e-books, periodicals and videos:

Better Homes and Gardens Landscape gardening
Vegetables and fruits History of gardens and gardening
Foliage house plants Annuals
Illustrated guide to personal gardening Wildlife garden
Complete garden guide  

 

Periodical Indexes

AccessScience
Health & Wellness Resource Center
EBSCO
Newsbank
General Business File ASAP
WilsonWeb

 

Websites

National Gardening Page
www.garden.org
Contains many gardening resources, how-to projects, and a buyer's guide.


Home gardening
www.explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=home%20gardening
Cornell University's website presents information on flowers, vegetables and lawn care.


The Butterfly House
www.butterflyhouse.org/butterflies/butterflygardening.aspx
Do you want to attract butterflies to your garden and yard? This site will show you how.


Northern Gardening
www.northerngardening.com
This is a resource for gardeners who live in a cold climate.


HGTV
www.hgtv.com
This site has a Gardening Toolbox with an interactive library, calculators for planning fences and estimating grass seed, and a newsletter.


Better Homes and Gardens
www.bhg.com/bhg/gardening/index.jhtml
This magazine's website contains a Search Plant database and topics in gardening