LINKS and REFERENCES FOR TROPICAL
GARDENING
Books
on Tropical Plants and Tropical Gardening
Anderson,
Frederick O. How to Grow Herbs For Gourmet Cooking,
Meridith Press, New York, 1967.
Honychurch,
Penelope N. Caribbean Wild Plants & Their Uses,
MacMillan Education Ltd, London, 1986.
Stresau
F.A.S.L.A., Frederic B., Florida, My Eden, Florida Classics
Library, Port Salerno, Florida 33492-1657, 1986.
Bromeliads
http://www.centralcoastbroms.com/plantslinks.asp
This is a good non-commercial site for folks especially
interested in bromeliads.
Bulbs
http://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/index.asp
As
the name implies this is a good site for bulbs, tubers and corms,
etc.
http://www.bloomingbulb.com/
The
name says it all for this commercial site.
Cactus
and Succulents
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/index.html
This is a pretty good non commercial site where you will
find lots of information on all sorts of cactus and succulents.
Ferns
http://www.srtrop.com/index_hm.htm
This
is a page on the indoor care requirements of many of the ferns
we have growing outside in our garden.
Fruit
Trees and Plants
http://www.crfg.org/index.html
This
is the website for the California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. It is
an excellent source of information on any and all fruit trees and
fruiting plants you may be interested in growing.
http://www.tntisland.com/fruits.html
This is a lovely site with beautiful photographs of well-known and exotic fruits.
Good
Gardening Practices
http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/
This is a good site for lots of information on growing
specific types of plants, but more importantly it a good site for
looking at your land and gardens in a new way. Even if you live
in an apartment, but have a balcony or terrace this is a good site
to take a look at.
Herb Gardening
http://www.growingherbs.org.uk/
This is a commercial site with lots of advertising, but
it has some useful information as well.
Natural
Pesticides and More Oisat.org/home.html
In
their own words this is an "Online Information Service for
Non-Chemical Pest Management in the Tropics." This may be
one of the best sites I've found to help in managing our unwanted
garden visitors.
http://www.ghorganics.com/
This is a good reference site for organic solutions to plant diseases.
Orchids
http://www.orchids.org
This is an amusing site which will take you some time
to figure out, but I think it probably has a lot of good information
tucked into a lot of confusion.
Parasitic
Plants
http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/index.html
This is a peculiar site, but academically based and amusing
as well as interesting. If you are interested in parasitic plants
take a look below at the Love Vine.
Seed,
Plant and Tree Companies
http://almostedenplants.com
This is a pretty good site for interesting plants. The photography
allows you to really see what you are looking at which is a real
plus.
http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/gardening/GP/gatepage/SiteMap
This is a good site for the spring catalog of seeds and
plants available from this company.
Stokes.com
Recommended for vegetable seeds.
Thompson Morgan.com
Recommended for all types of seeds.
http://www.plantoasis.com/
This
is a good site for houseplants, many of which grow outside in a
tropical climate.
http://www.TroysTropics.com
This is the web site of a plant supplier in Sarasota, Florida. It has good
photographs and helped me identify several of my unknown plants.
Tomatoes
http://www.alltomato.com/
This is a great site with more information than you ever wanted
on how to grow tomatoes.
Tropical
Plants, Seeds and Trees
SouthernTropicals.com
This is a good site for photos to help
you identify what you have growing and to see and buy what you
might like to have growing.
TopTropicals.com
This is a great site for photographs to help you identify what you have growing
and to see and buy what you might like to have growing. They provide lots
of information and photographs on hundreds of plants, only a portion of
which they are selling. I have found their plant information very helpful
and I'm sure you will too.
http://www.flowersofindia.net/
This is a non-commercial site with the goal of posting
information on all of the plants and trees that grow in India.
The site is in English, but does offer information in Indian languages
as well.
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/plants.htm
This
is a non-commercial site posting information on plants and trees
found in Singapore's wetlands.
University
Agriculture Department Web sites
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/basics.html
This is a good site for advice on how, where and when
to plant vegetables in your garden. |