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• BA Education: Gardening - Month-by-month index of gardening activities on a site aimed at students.
• British Hedgehog Preservation Society - Advice on encouraging hedgehogs in the garden, creating a wildlife garden, caring for hedgehogs in the wild and hedgehog helpline.
• British Lawnmower Museum - Includes information on the museum along with details of various manufacturers. Also includes technical information on some of the important lawnmowers in history.
• Browsing 4 Gardens - Resource with extensive database of UK and international gardening links browsable by category or by company, with a gardener's diary, events calendar and forum.
• CITES: The Official Site - The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora has a membership of 150 countries who ban commercial international trade in an agreed list of endangered species.
• Concept Gardens - Offering progressive styling tuned by a sensitivity to culture Concept Gardens design gardens and all accessories with the landscape, from the groundworks up to the canopy.
• Debby's Garden Links - Links to UK garden-related Websites plus gardening hints and tips.
• Doctor Greenfingers - Amateur gardeners' advice clinic with chat room, gardening links and tips maintained by anonymous gardener north of Leeds.
• e-garden - News, features on garden design and organic gardening, seasonal tips, an image library, Latin plant name translator, selected mail-order offers and biographies of Richard Jackson and Geoff Hodge from London-based publisher.
• Eco Composting Ltd. - Information and stockist list for compost and soil improvement products from green waste composting company based in Christchurch, Dorset.
• English Country Gardening (Suite101.com) - Articles by Jane Hollis, useful links, gardening discussions.
• English Town Gardening (Suite101.com) - Forums and links, with features by Graham Leatherbarrow.
• Evergreens UK - Artificial grass manufacturer and supplier Evergreens UK. A range of artificial grass, ideal for gardens, displays, home putting greens and play areas.
• Expert Gardener - Articles, timely reminders of jobs to be done and advice on planting, plant care, pests and diseases, ponds and water gardening and garden design from monthly magazine; features chat and shop.
• Flowerpotman Landscape Gardeners Decking Carpenter - Landscape gardener and decking carpenter designs and builds cottage gardens, In Bristol, Bath, Weston Super Mare and Southern England.
• Garden Centre - Seasonal tips, a diary of garden events, links to fencing and solar fountain suppliers, and the opportunity to engage in 'telegardening' by operating a robot arm.
• Garden Centre Direct - Offers sheds, garden furniture, barbeques, lawn mowers and water features.With free UK delivery and permanently low prices.
• Garden Designer UK - Tips, links and garden design articles.
• Garden Talk.co.uk - Share your tips, ask questions, swap seeds on this online bulletin board.
• Garden Trouble - Free practical gardening advice. Ask an expert or browse the archived information.
• Gardeners Quotes - Looking for a gardener? Receive free quotes from gardeners near you!
• Gardeners' World at beeb.com - Site from the 'commercial' arm of the BBC, bristling with information, forums, news, seasonal tips, media-gardner-screensavers; features useful short-term local weather forecast.
• gardenforum.co.uk - Information, advice and news on and about gardens and the gardening industry in the UK.
• Gardening Directory - Listings for nurseries, designers, machinery, plant care, garden buildings and ornaments.
• Gardening Questions Answered - Answers to seasonal gardening questions and 'things to do' calendar. With gardening pictures.
• Gardening.telegraph.co.uk - Plant profiles, garden project advice and ask an expert service from the Daily Telegraph.
• Gardenseeker.com - An all-in-one site for gardening and gardeners. Descriptive articles, pruning guide, competitions, garden doctor, events, employment, featured pages of places to go in UK.
• GardenWeb Europe - Includes forums, directories, plant exchange, articles and reviews.
• Gone Gardening - Seasonal gardening information, task lists and garden projects with an emphasis on ecologically friendly methods published from Brecon, Wales.
• Greenfingers.com - Garden information from editorial team headed up by George Plumptre; with club, advice, tips, features, competition, databases and superstore.
• Hampshire Hydroponicum - The Hydroponicum is housed at Houghton Lodge Gardens in Hampshire - England, also the base of The Hydroponic Society of Great Britain. It features a soil and pest free greenhouse.
• Hedgeline - Support and pressure group for 'Monster-hedge victims' dedicated to changing the law concerning nuisance hedges.'If a neighbour's hedge grows out over your land, takes your light, ruins your plants, spoils your enjoyment of your garden, needs continual ma
• Hedges and Edges - Topiary grown and designed by Lancaster based specialists.
• High Hedges: Possible Solutions - Report dated 13 Nov 1999 on the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions' study into the problem of high boundary hedges, including Leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii), and possible solutions, including the best way to address re
• Hortic - A page of horticulture-related links presented as drop-down menus 'built by plants-people for plants-people'.
• InsideOut Buildings Ltd - Environmentally friendly, architect designed, timber frame garden offices for people who work from home or who need more space.
• Leisure and Living: Horticulture - Directory of garden centres, retail nurseries, wholesale nurseries, landscape gardeners, plant suppliers and official horticultural societies and organisations.
• Little gardens - Reference for small gardens. Includes links to Societies and suppliers.
• Museum of Garden History - Located at the restored church of St Mary-at-Lambeth next to Lambeth Palace in London and featuring a recreated historic knot garden, the museum offers activities and lectures.
• Netgardeners - Gardening information, tips, features, suppliers, books and links to advice lines
• Nothing but Seeds - Seeds for Palms, Cacti, Tropicals, Trees, Herbs, Bonsai, Sunflowers, Tomatoes and Peppers.
• Organic Recycling UK - Organic waste recycling and composting in the UK.
• Over the garden gate - A gardening and wildlife cybercommunity with chat, forums, play area and marketplace.
• Parks on the Web - Alan Barber's site devoted to urban parks in the UK and elsewhere.
• Paul's Garden World - Paul Owen's compendium of practical instructions for growing fruit, vegetables and herbs and garden construction projects, with information on pests and diseases and a weekly diary of gardening jobs.
• Real Gardeners UK - Gardening community with discussion forums, diary, seed exchange, live chat room, and photograph albums.
• See-inside Nesting Boxes - Handmade nesting boxes with integral video cameras, to bring nesting birds into the home and classroom.
• The Garden - An embryonic directory of trade and retail nurseries and horticultural services, with useful links directly to gardening tips on other Websites.
• The Garden Show Stansted Park, Hants - Garden show held annually at Stansted Park, Hants, with specialist plants, garden designers, art, design, gifts, food, wine, complementary therapy, garden lectures childrens entertainment.
• The Internet Garden - Searchable database of gardening links with some gardening tips.
• The Listing of Gardening Websites by Categories - A directory of Websites with gardening content.
• The Surrey Garden Show - Springtime indoor gardening event held at Esher, Surrey, UK every April. Details of what's there, how to get there, and tickets.
• The Urban Garden - Suppliers of a stylish collection of garden furniture, sculptures, water features, window boxes, planters, BBQs, outdoor lighting and bird feeders.
• The Web Garden - Plant and gardening equipment finder searchable by post code, with feature articles and garden quiz; identity of publisher not disclosed; site requires Flash.
• Tropical Gardening - Resource for palms, cycads, bananas, tree ferns and growing plants in cooler climates. Includes purchasing ability.
• uk.rec.gardening MetaFAQ - Accumulated wisdom in answer to practical gardening questions on topics ranging from slugs, snails and vine weevils to cultivating potatoes in pots.
• Urban Wildlife Garden Site - Stuart Etheridge's advice on urban wildlife gardening based on his own experience in London
• WotNext - Advice on constructing a pond in your garden.