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Searching for gardening sites on the web can be a trying time, while using a search engine you can end up with thousands of sites and still won't know where to look.
Some of these sites may be of interest to you and lead you on to other areas of interest.

'Garden Web'
www.au.gardenweb.com (Australia)
or
www.gardenweb.com (United States)
or
www.gardenweb.com/vl
This site has an Australian flavour and is linked to sites in the United States, Canada and Europe. Features lots of handy information, gardening forums, tips, group listings, a garden exchange for seeds and plants and lots more.

'About Gardening'
gardening.about.com/homegarden/gardening
This is a constantly updated U.S. site with some good information, well worth a visit.

'The Spirit of Gardening'
www.garden-digest.com
A fun site of ongoing works by Michael P. Garofalo. Sorry ! no pictures of lovely gardens but lots of gardening quotes, quips, poetry, sayings, wisdoms and cliches.

'Burkes Backyard'
www.burkesbackyard.com.au
This web site for the popular television programme covers both Burkes Backyard and Backyard Blitz with lots of information and facts sheets for the shows.

'Gardening Australia'
www.abc.net.au/gardening/
This site is continually growing with facts sheets, coming television programme information and lots more.

'Ground Force'
www.groundforce.i7.com.au
The online site for the television programme with fact sheets on the garden make overs.

'The Global Garden'
www.global-garden.com.au
An interesting online Australian gardening magazine.

'The Green Webb'
www.thegreenwebb.net.au/garden
An interesting online Australian gardening magazine.

'Xeriscaping'
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/xeriscaping
A great site for those wanting to garden with minimal water. Plenty of tips and links to other subject related sites around the world.

'Garden Girl'
www.gardengirl.co.ukmain.htm
An award winning UK site, fun to explore.

'Google'
www.google.com
This site will lead you to a huge number of other gardening sites around the world.

'The Virtual Garden'
www.vg.com
This is a good site with lots of interesting information and good topics and even a kids garden page, as well as a good link into a host of other great sites.

'The Garden Bed'
www.gardenbed.com
An innovative site for gardeners at all levels. Packed full of great information, photographs, book reviews, Q. & A.. A semi-finalist in the Australian Internet Awards.

'Landscape Australia'
e-landscape.com.au
This site is a directory operated by Landscape Publications Pty. Ltd. that provides information about landscape related enterprises, from design through to the supply of services and products.

 Plants

'Pinerise Peonies'
www.pinerise.com
For the Peony lover this site features helpful cultivation notes and a catalogue of lovely photographs from the experienced grower Marg Hansen from the Tasman Pensinsula.

'Growing Australian Plants'
farrer,riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP
For the native plant enthusiast the site for The Society for Growing Australian Plants is very good.

'Weeds'
www.ergonica.com
For those interested in weeds, this could be you.

 Gardens to Explore

'Paradise'
http://members.tripod.com/~klok/eden.htm
A personal site of Tasmanian Gay Klok, describing a decade of hard yakka involved in converting an old apple orchard into a stunning garden. Lots of pictures to help you along.

'Mediterranean Gardens'
www.support.net/Medi-Plants/index.html
Trevor Nottle is an author and an advocate of Mediterranean style gardens. This web page is nicely designed and easy to get around.

The Cooks Garden'
www.cooksgarden.com
The cook's garden has plenty of great kitchen garden growing tips, and recipes.

 Organics

'Organic Down Under'
www.organicdownunder.com
A great site for those interested in organic gardening.

'The Vegetable Patch'
www.thevegetablepatch.com
Created by Gavin and Paula Atkinson this is a great site for the organic and vegetable grower with loads of information.

'Dig Magazine'
www.digmagazine.com
Dig magazine exists online only, so don't bother looking in a newsagent for the mag. A very diverse gardening website, full of practical and sometimes off beat ideas and advice.

'Australian Nurseries Online'
www.nurseriesonline.com.au
This site is organised state by state and is very easy to link up with all sorts of Australian nurseries and retailers.

Gardens Online'
www.GardensOnline.com.au
A big Australian gardening site with all manner of products for sale as well as information.

'Yates'
yates.com.au
Yates web site is a good starting point to go garden shopping on the net and it is full of good information as well.

'Green Gold'
www.greengold.com.au
A mini shopping mall on the web, for a wide variety of other Australian online gardening sites.

'National Gardening'
www.nationalgardening.com
The online site for the National Gardening Association. A huge amount of information, ques. & ans.

'Australian Institute of Landscape Designers & Managers'
www.aildm.com.au
Information on the Institute Code of Practice, members, contacts and more.