Websites for gardening and landscaping.
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Anonymous
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First-time homeowner here. Back yard faces south and gets plenty of sun. Would love to learn the basics about gardening, and find some websites with plant/flower suggestions. If you're an avid gardener, please recommend some of your go-to sites.
TIA |
Anonymous
| Gardenweb! |
Anonymous
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Adrian Higgins has a column and chats occasionally at the Post. It's a great resource for local plants.
Garden web is great. I buy all of my plants via mail order from small nurseries, as I did not find most of the plants I wanted locally. |
Anonymous
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Fine Gardening.com has great photos.
Go to the library and check out books specific to this area. Adrian Higgins has one, and I also like Landscaping for the MidAtlantic or something like that. Ask your neighbors what plants do well for them. Try to figure out whether you have clay soil, sandy soil, or loam (i.e., good soil). |
Anonymous
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The Washington Post gardening book (by the aforementioned Adrian Higgins) is a great reference. So much of gardening is place and climate dependent that I really like having a local guide.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Washington-Post-Garden-Book/dp/0962597155 |
Anonymous
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Not OP, but thank you thank you thank you!
I'm from SoCal and this is *very* different. And in a way, it's nice to actually be able to take a BREAK from having to garden 12 months of the year! (well to be really honest, there are two weeks in February where everything is dormant in SoCal, but other than that, it's non-stop) going to buy that book right now, PP |
Anonymous
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^^ Also want to add that my favorite catalog and website is something that locals may not be familiar with. The catalog is drool-worty, in part because of her descriptions:
anniesannuals.com Many of these flowers should grow here. And they'd be really unusual out here! |
Anonymous
| Go to American Plant Food on a weekday and pick their brains, very knowledgable. |
Anonymous
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Bluestoneperennials.com
gardeners.com ediblelandscaping.com whiteflowerfarm.com |
Anonymous
| washington gardener is a good magazine. DC Recreation has 2 gardening classes starting in a week or two. |