Websites of Interest to Gardeners in the Coastal South

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Leon Extension
Extension Office of Leon County, FL.  Several gardening articles every month.

Southern Living
"Around Your Garden" articles, archives

Dave’s Garden
Gardening articles, plant encyclopedia, much more.

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Lazy Gardener
Several new articles per week by Brenda Beust Smith of the Houston Chronicle.  I check this daily.

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Houston Chronicle
More garden columns at the Houston Chronicle.  New articles daily.  Plant selector database.

Felder Rushing,
Gardening articles by Felder Rushing, author of many books on gardening, especially Southern gardening.

Gardening in Acadiana
Archive of over 800 articles about gardening in Southern Louisiana.


Grumpy Gardener
Steve Bender's column in Southern Living.  Steve edited the "Southern Living Garden Book" and co-authored "Passalong Plants" with Felder Rushing (above).

Theresa Friday  
Garden Columns for Northwest Florida


.Erica Glassener
Garden columns by the host of "Gardener's Diary".   Based in Atlanta.

Floridata
Gardening articles; writer lives  south of Tallahassee, Florida.  Plant Encyclopedia, updated several times per week.

Bill Finch
Garden column at Mobile Press-Register. .


Marie's Garden
Marie Harrison is the author of several books, including "Gardening in the Coastal South".  Based in Florida Panhandle.
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.Plant-Quest
Tim Wood searches the world for new plants varieties.

Georgia Gardening
Gardening articles by Walter Reeves.


Fine Gardening

Online version of the popular gardening magazine (Taunton Press).


Just Fruits and Exotics

Good nursery south of Tallahassee near Crawfordville. Helpfull  plant info, gardening newsletter.  Best fruit selection around, many ornamentals also.
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Escambia Wildflowers
Many photos of North Florida wildflowers, sorted by color.

Florida Wildflowers
Flowers from all over Florida.

Alabama Wildflowers
Lots of categories, useful for ID.

Native Plants for Georgia
Plant profiles, applicable to much of Coastal South.

Arbor Day Foundation
Lots of information on trees.   Features a tree selection wizard and an  interactive tree identification wizard.

Eat the Weeds
Edible wild plants, commonly known as weeds.  The author, Green Deane, identified some of the weeds that I posted on Gardenweb.

Gardenweb
Garden forums

Crosby Arboretum
Arboretum in near the Misssissippi-Louisiana border.   Huge habitat with plants native to the Coastal South.

A Garden's Forum
Garden forums, similar to Gardenweb.
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Successful Gardener
Garden columns from North Carolina State University.
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Texas A&M Extension
Many useful articles & links.  Don't miss The Southern Gardener (Bill Welch).
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Georgia Gardener
Newsletter with profiles of plants suitable for our area.

Georgia Gold Medal Plants
Good plants for our region.  From the University of Georgia

Defining Your Garden
Excellent blog, nice photos and narratives.  Updated every day.

Secrets of a Seed Scatterer
Blog focused on Florida-Georgia line, but applicable to the Coastal and Lower  South in general.