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The African Garden - "A website dedicated to the culture,
photography, identification, research, horticultural promotion and
conservation of Southern African Bulbs and their hybrids". Based in Plymouth, England
Andean
Botanical Information System
- "Presents information from floristic and systematic investigations
of the flowering plants (phanerogams) of Andean South America. Topics
include selected geographic regions and groups of Andean plants, flora of
coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories from a variety of habitats in
northern Peru, bibliographic resources, and searchable databases."
Association of Societies for Growing Australian
Plants - Useful Antipodean site, some what of a mouthful,
loads of information on garden-worthy Australian plants, with many good
images to.
Australian
Botany Pages - Links to Australian National Botanical Gardens,
Centre for Plant Biodiversity and Research, Australian Biodiversity
Information Facility and other government run pages.
Australian National Botanic Gardens Bookshop -
Buy books on Australian plants & gardening
The Botanical Society of Southern Africa - Members
help in conservation efforts & support the NBI gardens in South Africa , they get free entry to all the NBI gardens (including Kirstenbosch) and
you get to pick several packets of seed from the Kirstenbosch seed list.
Cotswold Garden Flowers - Well known perennial specialists with lots of
useful info and picture
Crocosmias
– NCCPG collection holder Mark Fox’s site devoted to these
useful, tough & diverse group of late flowering South African
perennials, more than just “Bloody Montbretia”.
Crûg Farm -
World famous nursery in North Wales offering obscurities from The Orient.
Curtis Botanical Magazine - A USDA site from the National Agricultural Library with digital
copies of the plates from volumes 1-26 of the famous botanical journal.
Dibley's - Welsh nursery specialising in Gesneriads,
particularly Streptocarpus, which we also sell from the greenhouse.
Diversity, Endemism & Extinction in the New
Caledonian Flora - A fascinating and well illustrated paper on the
unique and important Gondwanan flora of this comparatively small island 750
miles east of Australia. Smaller than Wales it has a flora of around
3,500 species of which 76.4% are endemic, i.e. they occur nowhere else!
eNZed, New Zealand Wildlife - Kiwi links site to wildlife pages related too New Zealand, some
plants among all the birds and Whales.
Eucalyptus Nursery - Nursery in Wales specialising in Gum trees.
With information on growing them.
Flora of China - Home
of one of the most important English-language floras in progress. 5 of 25
Volumes have been published so far, though a little pricey for the normal
pocket ($80 each) they are invaluable to anyone serious about the western
Himalayan flora, of which so much is grown. These pages include
information on the flora as well as transcripts of the
published volumes and those still being finished, you can also order
copies.
Flora of North America Web Site - The site of the ongoing project to
"presents for the first time, in one published reference source,
information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide
distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and
naturalized found in North America north of Mexico."
Forestry Tasmania - The government body responsible for the
management of Tasmanian forests. with info on forest management, forestry
research & also offering seeds and other products.
GALE –
Gairloch & Loch Ewe Action Forum, promotes our local area &
organises events like the Tuesday Market in Poolewe Village Hall.
Gardening By The Sea – useful Cornish site for coastal gardeners
with a selection of coastal gardening themed articles.
Garden
net - Horticultural resources on the net.
Gardens Scotland
– Web site giving a good guide to any one planning a trip Up North
with info on lots of gardens & nurseries to visit & enjoy. The
webmaster, Gavin Dallmeyer also organises garden tours.
The
Hebe Society - "The Society for Hebes and Other Native Plants of
New Zealand", we’re are members and so should you be too! Lots
of lovely pictures & info on Hebes, a very versatile & useful group
of shrubs
Highland Highlights - Gardens - A
site giving much information on a broad range of subjects for those of you
interested in our corner of the planet, this section gives details of
gardens & nurseries in the area & of garden tours.
The Internet Directory of Botany - a
site of Botany related links from Canada, loads here worth investigating
IPNI
- "The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the
names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed
plants." So you can check the validity of a botanical name
Kirstenbosch - On
the slopes of Table Mountain this world renowned botanical garden grows
some 2,500 South
African species. Amongst other services they offer an excellent seed
service and a bookshop
Manaaki Whenua Press - New Zealand Natural History book
publisher
Met Office - This link will give you a forecasts for the Northwest Highlands.
National
Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens - or NCCPG the organisation that aims to prevent
specific plants vanishing from our gardens, it has tried to established
National Collections for specific genera across the country.
National
Trust for Scotland -
Conservation organisation responsible for many historic gardens throughout Scotland, including Inverewe near us.
New Zealand Alpine Garden Society - Society based in Christchurch for growing
native rock plants
New Zealand Gardens Online - Page with all sorts of
information on gardens and gardening in NZ
Norwich City FC - Official site of Ron's team
Paul Cristian Rare Plants
- Bulb specialist an extensive web site this link takes you to the
'gallery' loads of nice picture of
interesting plants.
Phormiums - Page from the National
Collection Holders on all the different cultivars of the popular New Zealand Flax
Poolewe.camusnagaul.com
– An interesting & well illustrated site with lots of info on
what to see & do and where to stay in our area. As well as lot of links
to other things to do with Gairloch Parish.
RHS - The
Royal Horticultural Society, information for members and non-members alike.
Rock Garden Plants Database - Useful site for finding info on alpines
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh - World
famous for it's massive collection of Himalayan plants which you can now
search on-line with the cut-down version BG-BASE at this site. Other info
on the collections & events.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - With
an even larger collection than Edinburgh, Kew is one of the most famous
gardens in the world.
Royal
New Zealand Institute of Horticulture - Site of New Zealand's version of the RHS.
Timber Press - One
of the best publishers of specialist horticultural books. Lots of
good horticultural and botanical links too.
Touchwood Books - New Zealand bookseller for "For tree, gardening, horticulture, viticulture, olive,
farming titles".
USDA
National Plants Database -
Information, distribution and some images of all plants growing wild in the
US
Vegetation of Mt Field National Park and the
South-West Tasmania Wilderness Area - A
University of Tasmania site, loads of images and information for those
interested in the fascinating flora of Tasmania
Wild Seed Tasmania - A Tasmanian seed supplier offering a good range
of native seeds.
Wildflower Field Guides - Going somewhere nice on your hols? This
site lists wildflower guides available for different parts of the world, so
you can take the right book to tell you what "hat pretty yellow thing
is.
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