Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000 species), including trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns.
Recommended Resources
The African Trees website provides detailed botanical data on the trees of Africa. Whether you want to learn about the Sausage Tree, Baobab, African wattle, Corkbush, River Indigo, you can also learn about African trees here. The website has also been celebrating African trees every year since 2001.
http://www.africantrees.com
Promotes interest in all activities relating to gourds: cultivation, historical uses, gourd show competition, craftwork, and artistic decoration.
http://www.americangourdsociety.org/
Living trees shaped into furniture, art and architecture by grafting for sale. Winner of two Netscape's what's cool awards. Artist shapes living tree trunks, planting, bending and grafting to grow awsome forms in livng tree trunk.
http://www.arborsmith.com/
Company offers a wide range of quality cannabis seeds on the Internet.
http://www.cannabis-seeds.co.uk/
Features information about growing hops, the main plant used as an ingredient in beer brewing. Covers planting, the growth cycle, pruning, spacing and support, harvesting, drying, diseases and pests, and the different varieties of hops. Includes links to pages on insect and disease damage and to sites about home brewing.
http://www.freshops.com/
The Northscaping website is a resource for those who enjoy outdoor living spaces. You also get information on how to plant Japanese plants and others. The website also has a plant search tool which helps people find plants at a nursery or garden center near you.
http://www.northscaping.com
A guide to rose gardening. Includes tips for selection of variety, site selection and bed preparation, planting, pruning, and pest and disease protection. Features image galleries, videos, diagrams, and links to related resources. From the University of Illinois Extension.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/roses/
Extensive information about plants and vegetation indigenous to the southern African region, including hundreds of alphabetically arranged plant portraits and an article archive dating to 1990. Presented by the National Botanical Institute of South Africa.
http://www.plantzafrica.com/
