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Gone Gardening - Seasonal gardening information, task lists and garden projects with an emphasis on ecologically friendly methods published from Brecon, Wales.
GardenWeb Europe - Includes forums, directories, plant exchange, articles and reviews.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Urban Wildlife Garden Site - Stuart Etheridge's advice on urban wildlife gardening based on his own experience in London. Includes composting tips.
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 maintenance, and causes you anxiety, then the following pages, could well be useful.'
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.
Garden Designer UK - Tips, links and garden design articles.
Netgardeners - Gardening information, tips, features, suppliers, books and links to advice lines
Greenfingers.com - Garden information from editorial team headed up by George Plumptre; with club, advice, tips, features, competition, databases and superstore.
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.
Over the garden gate - A gardening and wildlife cybercommunity with chat, forums, play area and marketplace.
Little gardens - Reference for small gardens. Includes links to Societies and suppliers.
gardenforum.co.uk - Information, advice and news on and about gardens and the gardening industry in the UK.
WotNext - Advice on constructing a pond in your garden.
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.
BA Education: Gardening - Month-by-month index of gardening activities on a site aimed at students.
Leisure and Living: Horticulture - Directory of garden centres, retail nurseries, wholesale nurseries, landscape gardeners, plant suppliers and official horticultural societies and organisations.
Gardening.telegraph.co.uk - Plant profiles, garden project advice and ask an expert service from the Daily Telegraph.
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.
Gardening Questions Answered - Answers to seasonal gardening questions and 'things to do' calendar. With gardening pictures.
GardenForum Horticulture - Advice on pests and diseases, pruning and other garden topics and offers a shopping facility.
Doctor Greenfingers - Help and advice clinic for sick plants and amateur gardeners. Jobs to do diary, video tips, how to pages. Fun site with lots of humour and based on a hospital theme.
Spiritual Garden Design - Designers and creators of spiritual gardens combining spiritual energy with natural features. Also incorporates aspects of feng shui. Information and photo examples.
UK Gardening - Provides the gardeners of Britain with an information source of gardening questions and advice. Gardening diary, tips, projects, design and contact details.
Garden Advice - Home of gardening knowledge - Expert gardening advice from horticultural specialists in plants and gardens. Feature articles, calendar and tips on gardening and garden design.
Suite101.com - Gardening and Gardening Products - Access a wide range of articles and discussions on gardening and related topics.
Hortic - High on Horticulture - A page of horticulture-related links presented as drop-down menus 'built by plants-people for plants-people'.
Plants of Global Conservation Concern - Database of endandered plant species maintained by the UN World Conservation Monitoring Centre (for CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
Debby's Garden Links - Links to UK garden-related websites, with useful information for gardeners.
Cottage Garden Plants - Small Cumbrian nursery with a good range of hardy geraniums and other cottage garden plants, visits to garden by appointment. Mail order available most of the year: email for prices and availability.
@www.grow.co.uk - Categorised listings of gardening and horticulture resources.
National Garden Gift Vouchers - Stocked and redeemed at garden centres and nurseries throughout the UK.
The Gardener's Almanac - A guide to growing flowers, fruit and vegetables for the ornamental garden and allotment; organised as a weekly task list.
British Hedgehog Preservation Society - Advice on encouraging hedgehogs in the garden, creating a wildlife garden, caring for hedgehogs in the wild and hedgehog helpline.
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Gardening Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Gardening A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Gardening We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Gardening The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Gardening 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Gardening the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Gardening "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Gardening Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Gardening I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Gardening If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Gardening Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Gardening To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Gardening "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Gardening "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Gardening Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Gardening Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Gardening If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Gardening "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Gardening The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Gardening True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Gardening CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Gardening
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