Forums and Online Communities Resources from Home Directory

Blossom Swap - Lively community of gardening enthusiasts forums plant and seed swaps articles gardening tips and photographs.

Dave's Garden - Maintain plants and seeds inventory discuss gardening and trade seeds and plants with fellow gardeners. Many features are only available to paying members some also to the general public.

Digital Raingardens: Gardening Questions and Answers - Forum for general discussion of gardening questions.

Garden Bed - Reviews on a range of flowers plants trees and shrubs. Section for kids.

Garden Country - Message board for communing with other gardeners. Includes a butterfly garden guide weed identifier and e-cards.

Garden Stew - Discussion forums on several gardening topics as well as a few home improvement topics.

GardenBanter - A web front to several usenet newsgroups covering general regional and water gardening topics. Threads are displayed forum-style. Posting requires registering with the site.

GardenBuddies.com - Forums and photo galleries covering many gardening topics visited by an international audience. Archives of plant information.

GardenWeb - Community of gardeners offering a wide range of resources. Forums on a large variety of general and specialized topics glossary of botanical terms seed exchange and plant directory.

GardenWeb Australia - Hosts forums garden exchanges articles contests and a plant database.

Gay Gardener - Offers planting tips gardening history forums quotes and a monthly newsletter.

Happy Moose Gardening Forum - Offers specialty forums on daylilies hostas and irises.

Homestead Garden - Online community focused on gardening with a simplified-living bent. Forums a few articles links to extension services and printable journals and logs.

Hort.net: Archived Active Horticultural Mailing Lists - Maintains archives of about 30 gardening-related mailing lists with a link to archives of additional now defunct lists.

I Can Garden - Canadian gardening resource site by editor and Master Gardener Donna Dawson. Includes a member's area news articles book reviews clubs suppliers pictures and links.

International Home & Garden Club - Online gardening club that offers members-only forums gardening resources and monthly newsletter. Paid membership.

Just Gardeners - Includes forums articles catalog reviews and a plant and seed swap area.

MSN Groups: Great Impressions - The treehouse forum at this group features friendly discussion of various gardening topics. Also includes links to worthwhile gardening resources and members' photo albums. Must join group (free) to read and participate.

MSN Groups: Northern Gardening - Friendly meeting place for home gardeners mostly from the Northern half of the US. Photo galleries message board and lots of links to gardening resources.

Northscaping - Information resources e-zine forums and links of interest to Northern gardeners and landscapers (USDA hardiness zones 1-5). Includes a landscape plant search articles climatic data and business locators.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette Bulletin Boards: Backyard Gardener - Discussions on various gardening topics.

Plantideas.com - Garden resource site with articles tips and links about many indoor and outdoor gardening topics forums and exchanges.

PlantTraders - Online community of friends and gardeners sharing experiences plants and seeds.

SeeMeGarden - Community of gardening enthusiasts sharing tips advice experiences and knowledge covering many aspects of gardening.

Suite101.com: Gardening Community - Directory of gardening topics available at this resource site. Each topic is written by a different regular editor.

The Helpful Gardener: Garden Forum - A discussion forum for the home gardener. Members provide helpful answers for home gardening questions in a number of topics.

Tinker's Gardens - This site focuses on daylilies providing articles on their cultivation and hybridization as well as an extensive database. Also provides discussions of some other flowers and vegetables. Most of the action is in the many forums.

UKY Listserv: Gardens & Gardening - Worldwide community chats via an e-mail mailing list on a wide variety of topics including gardening. Archives online available to members of the list.

You Grow Girl - Offers a young fresh twist on gardening information tips and articles. Discussion forums and archives available.