~ Early Web Links ~

Sharon Bryson shares the story of The Willow Garden, a semi-woodland property near Antigonish, Nova Scotia featuring thousands of rhododendron and azalea seedlings cultivated over decades by the late Bill Wilgenhof. Visitors will find seasonal garden photography, seed exchange information, and a deeply personal record of a lifelong horticultural passion.

Phoenix Tropicals covers the art of growing citrus and tropical fruits in the Arizona and California deserts, with detailed guides on varieties like Meiwa kumquats, pest management, soil, watering, and frost damage. The site is a practical reference for desert gardeners tackling everything from avocados and mangoes to orchid trees and passion fruit.

The Pottawatomie Garden Club has been beautifying St. Charles, Illinois since 1928, planting flowers on bridges and public spaces, honoring members with memorial trees, and awarding scholarships to horticulture students. With over 100 members, this civic-minded club hosts regular meetings, a Garden Walk, and community beautification programs throughout the growing season.

Front Range Food Gardener is a detailed blog by Carl Wilson focused on fruit and vegetable gardening along Colorado's Front Range, covering local growing challenges like temperature extremes, rabbit damage, and soil improvement. Posts include practical advice on tomatoes, cover crops, transplanting, and variety selection tailored specifically to the Colorado Front Range climate.

Hannelotte Kindlund's personal garden site documents her collector's garden in Övertänger, Sweden, where she cultivates rare alpine and woodland plants including Meconopsis, Gentiana, hardy orchids, and Pulsatilla. Photo galleries organized by plant genus make this a visually rich resource for enthusiasts of cold-climate and rock garden plants.

The Gardeners Directory is a comprehensive UK-based links directory covering over 50 gardening categories, from bonsai and orchids to allotments, water features, and garden design. Visitors can browse curated links to nurseries, seed suppliers, gardening clubs, plant databases, and a gardening shopping mall all in one place.

The Saline Stone & Thistle Garden Club is a community gardening club based in Saline, Michigan, with 51 members who have been meeting monthly since their founding in August 1986. The site covers club meeting schedules, member gardens, a pollinator bed project, and an upcoming plant sale, offering a welcoming entry point for anyone interested in joining.

Glenwild Gardens is a nursery and garden center located in Bloomingdale, NJ, offering plants, organic products, classes, and curated links to trusted gardening resources. The links page highlights recommended suppliers and local groups like Peace Tree Farms and Sustainable West Milford, making it a handy hub for gardening enthusiasts in the area.

The Colorado Dahlia Society is a club dedicated to growing and showing dahlias, with resources covering cultivation techniques, virus information, and variety galleries. Members can find meeting announcements, show catalogs, supplier lists, and a blog packed with practical dahlia culture guidance.

An Iowa Garden is a photo-rich blog by IBOY documenting the joys and seasonal rhythms of gardening in a wooded valley in eastern Iowa. Spanning posts from 2006 through 2009 with occasional later updates, it offers a visual narrative of a backyard garden through lush Picasa-uploaded images.