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Gardening improves the outside appearance of your living space, cultivates healthy living habits through growing and eating your own produce, and has positive benefits from the exercise you get while planting and maintaining your own garden. The following guide provides the latest tools and resources you need to learn about gardening to fit your lifestyle. Adults, seniors, and children can find gardening a healthy and exciting hobby to pursue.

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Gardening Resources

If you're looking for some sites chock-full of information about all sorts of gardening, the online homes of some offline gardening resources, or even some reference tools to help you plan and plant, you've come to the right place.

If you don't feel comfortable shopping online, most gardening suppliers will mail a catalog to your home. Take a look at the Web site of your favorite supplier to see if this option is available to you.

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Many online garden communities and magazines have a list of garden retailers or vendors from which you can order products. They often list products by subject category or location.

Some sites have a "zone finder" or "region locater" that can tell you what plants are best suited to your region. Using plants suited to the climate and soil where you live is important to planning a successful garden.

Gardening may be beneficial to your health. Take a look at "Go for Green" from the Evergreen Foundation.

For another health-based article, visit and "Healthy Gardening" from the University of Vermont Extension for more information.

Most garden sites are geared toward adults and seniors. For kid-friendly gardening information, check out the "Gardening for Kids" section of this guide.

If you are looking to do some landscaping as opposed to general gardening, see our findingDulcinea Landscaping Web Guide.

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Learn2Grow is a well-organized site that makes it easy to get started on your gardening project. When you register with the site for free, you gain access to an online garden journal where you can record plant details, bookmark articles of interest, and post photos of your garden. There are also low-cost garden courses, easy-to-follow projects, garden guides, and inspirational stories about gardening.

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BackyardGardener sells seeds, gardening products, and decorative garden items but the site also offers lots of helpful information in their "Articles" section. Find gardening tips organized by month, and garden articles arranged in categories like "Cooking and Vegetable Gardening" and "Water Gardening."

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Flower Gardening Made Easy is written by gardening writer and photographer Yvonne Cunnington. The site covers every aspect of flower gardening imaginable with sections on wildflowers, shade gardening, water gardens, roses, where to order plants online, flowering bulbs, and much more.

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The National Gardening Association site is a must-see for every gardener. It features regional reports, garden news, a zone finder, and calculators to help you determine material quantities for landscaping. There are entire sections devoted to "Urban Gardening" and "Edible Landscaping" complete with Q&As and how-to articles.

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WebGarden is a multimedia resource center for gardening information hosted by The Ohio State University's page. It offers "PlantFacts," a program that is a combination of how-to videos, photos, information, and a powerful search engine. "Pocket Gardener" is a collection of Web pages designed for Pocket PC and Palm PDA users. The site offers timely garden tips for new and experienced gardeners alike.

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Home Gardening offers "Flower Growing Guides" with over 269 varieties of flowers and "Vegetable Growing Guides" with over 58 varieties of vegetables. Detailed information on planting and growing flowers and vegetables is provided, along with fact sheets and articles.

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Better Homes and Gardens magazine is a perennial favorite with gardeners, and the Web site is no exception. Their "Garden Plans" feature boasts a long list of design ideas for different types of gardens, from a small front yard to a family backyard, and everything in between. Register for free to access the complete plans which include a large, color illustration of the garden, a layout diagram, a list of suggested plants and alternatives, and complete installation instructions.

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The Victory Garden PBS show has this site for avid gardeners. The "Ask" tab at the top of the homepage is where you can get answers to your tough gardening questions. The "Grow" tab has a variety of features like "Kip's Maintenance Blog" for monthly advice and poems, and "Primers & Projects" for basic gardening techniques and projects featured on the show. For inspiration, visit the "Explore" tab to see the visually stunning gardens that the show has toured.

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Horticulture magazine's Web site has articles written by garden experts that are complemented by a "Garden Center Directory", blogs, an online community composed of several forum topics, and much more.

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Sunset magazine has an excellent online gardening section with articles about small gardens, edible plants, outdoor garden design, and more. The "Community" tab features a very active forum on topics like gardening, outdoor style, and "Show off your garden," an area where you can post photos of your garden projects.

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