Useful Links for the Central Florida Gardener

• My favorites:
  1. Dave's Garden - A member supported Website. The number and varieties of plants listed on the site are staggering. If you can't find it in Dave's Garden, it probably can't be grown.
  2. Gardening in Central Florida (centralfloridagarden.blogspot.com) An interesting, well written blog. I always learn something new each time I visit.
  3. Floridata.com - A great resource on Florida plants with abundant, detailed descriptions.
  4. Gardenweb.com - The Florida Gardening Forum of gardenweb.com competes with Dave's Garden and, in some ways, the posts are better written and more diverse. However, it lacks the quirky participants of Dave's Garden and the house authorities.
• Florida Gardening Blogs
  • Central Florida Gardener
  • Florida Gardening: The Gardener's Gift
  • Gardening in Central Florida (centralfloridagarden.blogspot.com) As I said above (and it's worth repeating), an interesting, well written blog. I always learn something new each time I visit.
  • Hoe & Shovel
  • Pencil & Leaf - Something a little different. Gorgeous drawings.
  • Simply Susan Blog (simplysusansplace.blogspot.com/)
  • Tom's Digs - The blog of Orlando Sentinel garden columnist Tom MacCubbin who covers gardening year-round in Central Florida.
• Central Florida Gardening Web Sites
  • Central Florida Flowers
    • I Love Color
  • Central Florida Rose Society
  • Our Florida Garden - An online diary of a Tampa gardener.
  • South Tampa Orchid Professor
  • Tampa Bay Wholesale Growers

An alphabetic List:

• AfricanGarden.com A website dedicated to Southern African Bulbs and their hybrids (excellent images). Central Florida has much in common with the growing conditions of South Africa (see also plantzafrica.com below).
• Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
• BetterLawns.com The web site for the Better Lawns & Gardens radio program.
• Center for Plant Conservation
• Dave's Garden
• digital-librarian.com - An excellent starting point for other gardening links.
• DonitaWorld - An excellent resource for Florida gardening links.
• EarthBox
• easygardencolor.com Pamela Crawford's web site. She has written several excellent books on gardening in Florida.
• Environmental Horticulture Department of the University of Florida
• florida-agriculture.com Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• Florida Climate Center An interesting resource on current and historical Florida climate data.
• Florida Gardener
• Florida Gardening Forum
• Florida Native Plant Society
  • Suncoast Chapter
• Floridanativeplants.com
• Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association
  • Florida Gardening
• Florida Plants OnLine
• Floridata.com - A great resource with abundant, detailed descriptions of Florida plants.
• floridayards.org (Florida-Friendly Landscaping) Check out the the search tool to find plants that will do well in your Zone.
• Florida Wetland Restoration Information Center
• Florida Wildflowers and Butterflies
• Flowering Tree Society of Central Florida
• flowersforums.com
• GardenCarpentry.com - Gardencarpentry.com specializes in custom designed & built wooden garden structures such as pergolas, arbors, trellises & gates as well as wooden garden accessories. Excellent quality and located in Central Florida.
• Gardens Florida - Monica Brandies' homepage
• Gardening in Central Florida (http://centralfloridagarden.blogspot.com/). An intersting and diverse blog.
• GardenWeb - A great site for forums on gardening and the home. While I prefer Dave's Garden (mostly for the characters that contribute and a few of the regulars who are real experts), GardenWeb is a excellent resource.
• Glossary of plants
• Home Gardening Guide
• Hillsborough County Extension
• Japanese Gardens
  • Bowdin College
  • Dave's Garden
  • Japanese Gardens
  • Japanese Gardens Database
• Montgomery Botanical Center
• National Clonal Germplasm Repository
• National Tropical Botanical Gardens - Comprehensive database on hundreds of tropical plants.
• Natives for Your Neighborhood (regionalconservation.org) While this site covers Southern Florida, it does include information on many plants found in Central Florida.
• Nature Photography - Shirley Denton's extensive, almost boundless, collection of photographs of Florida plants and wildlife. Where did she get the time?
• Obsessed Gardener - A resource for North Florida gardeners.
• Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) links for Florida gardening
• Osceola County Extension
• perfectisland.us - A fascinating exploration of creating a natual environment on the barrier islands of southwest Florida.
• plantfinder.com - An online guide to wholesale plants. If you are looking for a rare, hard to find plant, the Search tool will tell you if wholesale nurseries in your area have it in stock.
• plantzafrica.com - Plants native to South Africa. An interesting comparison with plants that grow in a climate similar to Central Florida.
• plantsystematics.org (diversityoflife.org) As the site says, "Built by Biologists" and a bit of a challenge for the non-biologist to navigate or understand. Regardless, the site has over 20,000 images.
• Something Different....
• Sarasota Fruit & Nut Society
• Southern-Gardening.com
• Southwest Florida Water Management District
• The Wise gardener
• Tropical Designs of Florida
• Tropical Flowering Tree Society
• Tropical Plants Library Online
• University of Florida Electronic Documents (EDIS)
• Urban Forest Ecology Institute While UFEI is part of Cal Poly and focuses on urban forests in California, the site contains an extensive database of trees.
• USDA Plants Database
• Vascular Plants Image Library (University of Texas)
• Volusia County Virtual Arboretum
• Wildflowers of the Escambia
• You Grow Girl
• Your Florida Backyard - eclectic, truly eclectic.