Nursery and Grower Links (and others)
Hostas
- American Hosta Growers Association
- American Hosta Society
- Hosta Library
- Jeroen Linneman's Hosta Valley
- Danny van Eechaute's Hostacollectie, the website of one the premier Hosta breeders in Europe. Website is in Dutch, but pictures are universal.......
- Hugo Philips' site for the Hostaholic, with a treasure trove of links on Hosta matters and a FABULOUS database for getting information about any given cultivar
- Rob Sneyer's Hosta Mill, one more Belgian Hosta website.
- Hosta this and that
- Fraternal Order of the Seedy Fellows - a group of very accomplished Hosta hybridizers
- The Hosta Network
- Green Mountain Hosta Nursery
- Hallson Gardens
- Frida's Hosta.com
Ontario Hosta Society- Budd Gardens
- Canning Perennials
- Gardens Plus
- Goldenbrook Hostas
- Handlebar Hosta Farm
- Hosta Choice Gardens - in Appin, ON
- Hosta Geek - Fundy Beauties
- The Plant Farm
- Walnut Gardens
- Whitehouse Perennials
- Click here for a PDF version of the Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet on growing Hostas.
If you share our passion for lilies, you probably use at least some of these links already, but just in case, here they are, and SURPRISE, SURPRISE, most of them are in Holland:)
Lilies
- De Jong Lelies
- Hoff Quality First where you can see the world's first double flowered Oriental Lily
- Liliande
- Mark Lily
- Mondial Lilies shows probably the largest diversity of lily hybrids and cultivars we have seen on the internet, almost 1500 are shown
- Onings
- RoyalVanZanten
- Sande
- Vletter Den Haan
- Zabo Plant
- North American Lily Society
- Kremp Florist Lily Facts
- Victoria Lily Society
- Alberta Regional Lily Society
- South Saskatchewan Lily Society
- The Genus Lilium
Seeing as a great deal of this site deals with flowers and plants and stuff, go plant surfing with these links:
Canada
- Botanus.com
- Ferncliff Gardens
- Fraser South Rhododendron Society, hosted and maintained by my youngest
brother. Has some great information on growing, diseases and propagation.
- Cedar Rim Nursery in Langley, B.C.
- Phoenix Perennials, right here in Richmond, B.C.
- Alpine Garden Club of B.C.
- Fraser's Thimble Farms
- Gardenworks
- Tried And True
- The Lily Nook
- Plantlilies.com
- Heritage Perennials
- The Perennial Gardens
- Gratrix Garden Lilies
- Plant Explorers, a fascinating site originating from our local Van Dusen Botanical Gardens
For our Canadian visitors, they also have a seed collectors store on-line.
US
- Helleborus.com
- Hellebores.org
- Hallson Gardens - Hostas and other Perennial Plants
- Heronswood Nursery
- Plant Delights Nursery
- Schreiner's Gardens
- Sunshine Farm and Gardens: Focus on Hellebores
Various
- Millette Photomedia, Flower, Plant and Garden Picture Collection, the online marketplace to provide the best pictures of plants. With the addition of more great garden photographers, Millette Photomedia is now offering image buyers access to one of the widest and most commercial imagery that is quality-proof and ready for instant purchasing.
- Helleborus.be, for those among us who speak and read Dutch, but we can ALL look at pictures:)
- Blooms of Bressingham Perennials
- Farmyard Nurseries: garden plants and gardening (UK)
- Plant Delights Nursery
- Wanna see how many Snowdrop varieties there are?
- Flower Delivery, a resource for flowers of all kinds
- Wintersown.org, a treasure trove of information on winter sowing outdoors
- iloveplants.com is a popular web directory and internet garden resource guide to plants and gardening
- The Informed Gardener where you will find a treasure trove of gardening myths debunked.
Forums I hang out in from time to time
- Hostaseedgrowers Forum
- Hallson Hosta Forum
- Gardenweb Hosta Forum
- UBC Botanical Garden Forums
- American Hosta Society Forum
- Hostaforum Lage Landen - in Dutch
Personal garden sites etc.
- Mike's Backyard Garden
- Crafty Gardener ... In The Canadian Garden
- Hosta: Simple Gifts, a wonderful 8-minute presentation on YouTube of some Hosta gardens in New England.
Having problems with rodents? Here are instructions on how to construct a safe bait station for RATS.
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