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Links Worth Searching This page lets you link to other Horticultural Pages and some very cool places to view, read and download interesting information. No obligatory or useless links here; just solid information and some real fun Websites to visit. http://waterfallforge.com/aboutuspage.htm Next time you're on the Net or going to Louisiana, go visit Buddy Holmes, owner of the Waterfall Forge, in Prairieville, LA. He's an true Artisan Coppersmith, who's been crafting copper waterfalls, garden fountains and other copper art for homes and businesses for almost 17 years. Someday, I'd like to visit that beautiful part of America, and see Buddy's legendary operation. My new Marketing Agency is Infinite Solutions With Marketing, here in the York (PA) area, and the owner would love to hear from you, if you're looking for a top-notch marketing firm, to partner with in the business world. My testimonial to her marketing prowess and acumen, is here. We're featured on a review page at Gardens.com, so stop by when you get a chance and browse their entire site. Better bring a lunch; it's a large place. My all-time favorite flower, with over 26,000 varieties and counting, is the orchid. And there's no better authority on the Net, than Orchid Forums, for information, discussion and expertise. Stop by, sign-up and jump in with both feet, or just lurk and learn. Be sure to stop by and visit Sue Sweeney's, The Monday Garden. It's eco-gardening, indoors and outdoors, on the web, at its very best in her acclaimed website, The Monday Garden, with great photographs and new articles every week. Sue's now on my "must visit list", every Monday, BTW. Everything you could ever want to know about City Gardening has been compiled by Walter Urban, plus lots of photos, tips and highly-useful information for gardeners of all stripes and locations. We've just been listed on the Landscaping & Ornamental Gardens section of EcoIQ, which provides media products and services to promote community, business, and personal decisions that are at the same time economically and ecologically beneficial — decisions that are eco-intelligent. Heck, sounds good to me; we've been doing that for over 16 years. Thanks, folks. One of my most-visited and heavily-read Conservative websites is EtherZone, and two of my favorite writers are Barbara Stanley and William Kaliher. There's a wealth of intelligent opinion every day and in their archives. Bookmark Barbara's Personal Site and visit Bill's thought-provoking articles in the Etherzone Archives. There's a new Garden Designer Community website up and running, and we're listed in their links. It's almost as vast as www.gdnctr.com, so you'd better take a sandwich and iced tea along for the day's journey. Moosey's Country Garden has been completely redesigned and they've now got their own domain; stop by for a visit and tell them we sent you. Arts and Music Pa.com has a new area on the site, and we're in it. Called the Home & Garden and Family Pages, they're adding adding family health, computing, home business, babies and children, pet care, decorating and entertaining, music and video, vacation planning and lots more We will include builders, architects, interior designers and gardening experts, public gardens, exhibits, nurseries and clubs. Stop by and say hi to Mary, the webmistress. When you're in the neighborhood, stop by and visit Emily Compost. It's a virtual Internet plot with a garden of information for the new gardener and for those who have gardened a while. Their goal is garden education and sharing information to benefit the Planet Earth. Lots of great tips, information and links. Here's a nice listing of Garden Centers, Nurseries and Landscape Contractors in Maryland and they were nice enough to include us under Nurseries. Pat Core built and maintains the site; drop him a line and give him a report on the ones you visit. Looking for the ultimate in sculptured copper water fountains? Check out Mister Bud's site. He's a local Pennsylvania craftsman who can ship the most unusual and unique sculptured copper water fountains anywhere in the world. They're perfect for a patio or deck table, office, inside or outside and anywhere else you can think of. Here's a wonderful website that Nick developed to showcase his mother's beautiful country garden located in West Melton, New Zealand. The site is a mother's day present that sort of got completely out of control. The garden is not open to the public (but it should be!) and the site is of high quality with no commercial content or interests. Stop by for a visit, when you're in that virtual neighborhood. One of the very best sites for the northeast is the Rochester Gardening Website; for all things gardening, on which we're included. Thanks, gang. Want to read one of my favorite conservative sites? Try The Informed Electorate. It's my 3rd daily read, and that's saying something significant. Want to send a great electronic greeting card? Choose from dozens and hundreds at 123Greetings!. They're free, so be nice and drop a kind thank you to the site's owner, Chiradeep. I will use them all the time now. My hometown, York, PA has celebrated it's 250th Anniversary. Stop by their cool Website. Looking for some gardening resource information? One of the definitive sources is The Weekend Gardener, where almost everything from A-Z is listed. We're listed at Web Picks; then over to Seed & Nursery Catalogs. Drop a thank you note to Mary Anne Lynch, the site's creator, for doing such fine work in bringing all this information together. Visit the wonderful folks at Crabtree & Evelyn®'s website when you can. They've got gardening-related products for the weary and tired among us, which will rejuvenate and re-invigorate our psyches and bodies. They've even got a monthly gardening reminder section; something I've sporadically tried to do in here. For an amazing story on his lawn business, visit www.lawnservicing.com. For some great, lucid advice on websites, HTML and a dozen other topics of interest to anyone building either personal or corporate websites, visit Robert Crooks' Web Worker's Toolbox, a project he's recently completed while teaching at Bentley College, in Massachusetts. He's also a wiz with my favorite HTML Editor, HomeSite, and graciously helped me out with some install problems on my office machine. I'm spending some quality time at his Toolbox; see you there. For the very finest in herbicide and pesticides, stop by the Ortho® Website; their product line is all we've carried since we opened in 1991. My landscape crews and nursery maintenance crews use and recommend their fine line of products to all of our customers. We also use so much RoundUp® around the nursery and on landscape jobs that we could float a battleship! It's environmentally friendly, extremely effective, safe and easy to use. For some wild, personally-selected unusual websites in three categories, stop by Bill's Best of Everything and check out his zany, wild and wonderfully wacky picks. Bill's an old friend from New Jersey: we were in the BMW Car Club of America, NJ Chapter. In fact, he wrote a very nice piece on a one-of-a-kind BMW 335 I owned in the late 70s. I had no idea he was such an important executive with ZD Magazine. Drop by for his latest musings and tell him I sent you. For the very best selected Italian vegetable seed, stop by Ingegnoli and check out their wonderful offerings. We're listed on their links page with many others specializing in hortiuclture. I think I'll order some of their seed varieties to try for next season and see what the reaction is over on this side of the pond. Stop by Bahia, Inc's Website if you're in the Atlanta are; my friend Greg is as meticulous and quality-driven as we are, so for the very finest in Landscape Maintenance and a host of other services, get in touch with a real professional. Looking for the best source for cactus and succulents anywhere? Dr. Tony Mace and his lovely wife, Suzanne, have the the ultimate compendium of cactus and succulent sources worldwide, at The Cactus & Succulent Plant Mall. It's the very best source for cactii and succulents anywhere. Stop by for a visit, send them a note and tell them we sent you. One of the best sources for plants, seeds and books anywhere is The Amateur's Digest and it is run by Marina Welham. Stop by and visit some of her quality links to other sites of interest. Her Website is growing all the time; we're listed there under Sources. Drop her a note and tell her we sent you. If you're taking a trip to Europe — either digitally or for real — plant to stop by Marion's Garden and see what she has growing this week in her Netherland's garden. Don't worry about the language difference; Marion will translate for you and take you to all the best places in town. If you're looking for a good web design and hosting company, try WebLaunchers; they helped me with my Site Map and can work wonders for your site too. Ask for Vandana; she's very, very good and will get back to you promptly with whatever help you need. Over the Winter, take a trip to beautiful, lush Oregon and visit The Gardener's Advantage. (We buy a lot of exotic nursery stock from many wholesale nurseries all over Oregon.) They have some wonderful things in their on-line catalog and, they pay the shipping and handling! My pre-alma mater, Prospect High School, in Mt Prospect, Illinois, has it's own page up! Imagine that. I went to PHS from 1963 to 1967, and then on to Drake University in Des Moines, IA, from 1967 to 1971. Read the Me Page for the gory details. Say hello to the Illinois town I grew up in: Arlington Heights and they have their own Website, a spin-off of The Chicago Tribune. Very fond memories of people and places back there. Visit David Cushing's newly-designed Granite State Bonsai Page for a tour-de-force of the world of Bonsai. Go through the registration process and become a special, registered user-guest; it does have its rewards for future visits. Wave to him as he passes by in his 35ft RV. He's off on an unlimited journey across North America in search of the perfect place. Read about his travels in his eJournal, see the beatuiful photos from around the world, watch where he goes next, sign up for his electronic mailing list. Who else? The consummate world traveller: Patrick Jennings at Synaptic Grey Matter Media, of course. If you're new to HTML, PhotoShop, Illustrator, making Web Pages etc, there's a really good WebSite to visit, called Ask Dr. Web by Jeffrey Zeldman, a kindred advertising spirit of mine at Grey Advertising in New York City. (At least he's still there in the thick of it; I bailed out after 17 years.) It's the best advice and compilation of things you'd ever need to know. After you've spent a couple of days there reading his tutorials, check out his main Site called Jeffrey Zeldman Presents and have some real quality fun time. This man is one of the genuises behind the Batman Forever WebSite. He and his partners built the place. No small feat! Read about how they did it at Jeffrey's Site. Need some great artwork for either print or electronic media? Then visit my friend Dorothy Lasky: she does all my ads, newsletters and is one of the best graphic artists I've ever met. She has her own company called Dot.2.Design in Baltimore. Want the very finest in real aged hardwood floors? Visit my friend Jeff Horn's company in York, PA, specializing in rustic recycled antique aged woods at Aged Woods, Inc.. Or visit my friend Dennis' (the channel manager for #gardening on the undernet) organic gardening page (his farm is certified organic here in Pennsylvania) and lots of really good links at Organic1's Home Page. Or do you need to know something about Tomatoes? Here's the definitive source! Check out my friend Keith Mueller (aka "muleman" on IRC) at North Carolina State University with everything you need to know about Tomatoes at Keith Mueller's Tomato Page. Or see what's new with my friend Rusty's (aka "mander" on IRC) spectacular Orchid Collection in Hawaii at Rusty's Home Page. Aloha! Visit one the of largest and best organized WebSites to garden-related links anywhere; this one's in Texas and is called John's Rainbow Garden. Tour Cheryl Netter's Rose Gardens and find some great links to other sites at The Netter Page. Want to see one of the largest listings of horticultural businesses available? Visit the Horticulture Web . Or find the best places in business and shopping in York, PA, USA . Or see what cool things Texas Master Gardener Tom is doing in his virtual Garden, as he invites you to Come Into My Garden . You can go visit and actually shop online at The New York Botanic Garden. Or experience the beautiful Nature and The Environment Page. Or see how Steve Kelly who publishes monthly "InterNet Profit Report" can help you make your commercial Website profitable at Free Profit. Read his March review of us at the bottom of my Corporate Page. Or experience the exquisitely-designed Take A Stroll In The Garden Page of Denise Chen. Or find out what Harriet is growing organically in The Gardens at Thunder Ridge . Or see Horticulture In Virtual Perspective at Ohio State University, and Cornell University. Or see the most recent horticultural research at Virgina Tech University. Or learn what new botannical advances are occurring at Penn State University. Or see how The Department of Horticulture fosters environmental stewardship while improving the economic well being, health, and quality of life for all at Clemson University. Or gain a wealth of important information about horticulture at Texas A&M University. Or view the latest horticulture resources page at South Dakota State University. Or see what cool gardening things Dr. Deb of Florida State University is up to at The Armchair Gardener . Or learn the fine art of HTML, very classy page design, visit his site design company, VERSO, read Web Wonk, see the much-coveted High Five Award winners; heck, spend a couple of days here learning from a real anal-driven designer at The David Siegel Project. Or find the biggest and best list of resources for home and garden improvements anywhere at The Building and Home Improvement Products Network. Or use the ultimate research tool for your home project. Research your project using past issues of Home Mechanix magazine, request free product literature, and link to over 800 industry websites at Home Ideas. Or learn JavaScript the easy way from a real JavaScript Master at JavaScript by VooDoo. Or see good JavaScript at work at Diego's Home Page. Or spend some time visiting the hundreds of links to JavaScript and many other topics that Gary has saved for you at StarWeb Home Page. Or have a great time at Pete's Pages. Or find everything you wanted to know about Butterflies at The Butterfly Zone. Or surf hundreds of cool pages for a month at Karma on The Web. Or see the finest 3D Landscape program available today and lots of good gardening links at Books That Work. Or see what new coolness Matthew is up to at Matthew Mandia's Home Page. Or find the latest horticultural research at PlantNet. Or see what new things Susan is doing at Susan's Home Page. Or preview 3-D at The Center For Landscape Software Development. Or collect good customer handouts at Horticultural Information Leaflets. Or view nursery stock on Branch Smith Co's Home Page. Or shop the largest selection of nursery stock available on Nursery Net. Or learn why Dioxins are carcinogenic at any level, and especially deadly when sprayed onto hardwood mulch, put onto a garden, is uptaken by fruits and vegetables, and people unknowingly eat them and die at The EPA Home Page. Or read The Weekly Record and York Daily Record subsequent articles on cancer-causing mulch, as follow-ups to our ads, exposing a local paper mill's past criminal activity. Or review the latest weather forecasts before you launch a major gardening or landscaping project at NOAA Weather NetCast. Or browse lots of books at The New York Public Library Home Page. ©1996 - 2008. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. 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