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Pick of the Bunch —
our Favourite Horticulture
and Related Sites
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"Garden Information for Enthusiastic Gardeners." Includes Garden Forum, Gardens to Visit, NZ Native Plants, The Rose Garden, Garden Links and more. A beautifully presented and highly recommended site.
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"Everything for New Zealand gardeners: gardens, feature articles, design ideas, plant notebook, practical gardening, garden events and much more"
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New Zealand website that presents a variety of garden news and information.
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Written with the home gardener in mind, providing an understanding of the fascinating science behind gardening. Developed by Crop & Food Research and HortResearch, with funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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A diverse selection of New Zealand nature photographs, from plants and fungi to invertebrates, birds and landscapes.
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A website developed by Paul Ashford (a landscape planting designer from Dunedin, New Zealand). Contains images of New Zealand garden plants, both native and exotic.
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- To provide excellent, innovative and relevant training for our stakeholders that empowers individuals and enables horticultural industries to create wealth for New Zealand.
New
Zealand PlantFinder - Meg Gaddum's database that makes plant hunting easy. Over 46,000 plants listed from NZ nursery catalogues.
- HortSource
- A directory for the New Zealand Horticulture Industry.
Liddle
Wonder- Website of Liddle Wonder Ltd, a New Zealand production nursery well-known for the introduction of new plant selections. Their website contains images and details of a wide variety of pants that they grow.
- Naturally Native NZ Plants
- Specialist growers of New Zealand native plants since 1980. Their website includes an online plant catalogue.
- Nursery World
- "Gateway to the Nursery Industry in New Zealand". Broad site covering everything in the gardening, nursery and horticulture industries. Commercial Horticulture Magazine, Trade Days, Nursery Registers, seed suppliers, Reference Publishing, gardening, plants.
Weekend
Gardener- Website of New Zealand's fortnightly do-it-yourself consumer gardening magazine. The magazine provides a wealth of gardening and horticultural information of wide interest, some of which has been reproduced on the RNZIH website.
- Action Bio-Community
- "The Action Bio-Community project is building capacity for biodiversity management in councils and communities across New Zealand."
- Biodiversity Information Online - BIO
- Information about Aotearoa New Zealand's native biodiversity, what is being done to help conserve and manage it, and who is involved. The information and work programmes covered in this site are part of New Zealand's long-term commitment to conserve its natural heritage under the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.
Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand
- New Zealand's network of groups which share a concern for the environment.
- Natureandco.com — Discover Nature in New Zealand
- Justifiably claims to be "the best site of New Zealand's nature". Main sections include Land & Wildlife, Travel & Adventure, and Conservation.
New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network (NZERN)
- "A non-profit, community-driven organisation dedicated to sharing knowledge and experiences about native habitat protection, management and ecological restoration in our special land - Aotearoa-New Zealand."
New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
- Established in 2003 with the vision that 'no indigenous species of plant will become extinct nor be placed at risk of extinction as a result of human action or indifference, and that the rich, diverse and unique plant life of New Zealand will be recognised, cherished and restored'.
Landcare Research Home Page
- Includes New Zealand Plant Names Database, PeoplePlants Infobase, and Manaaki Whenua Press
- New Zealand Plant Names Database
- Part of the Landcare Research site. "Whether your interest is systematics, ecology, conservation, or simply browsing, these web pages provide a gateway to a wealth of information on New Zealand plants."
Project Crimson Pohutukawa & Rata Conservation, New Zealand
- Project Crimson is a charitable trust that aims to protect New Zealand's endangered pohutukawa and rata trees.
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
- A New Zealand based conservation organisation that works for the protection of New Zealand's native forests, threatened species, marine heritage and for a healthier environment.
Weedbusters New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
Weeds in New Zealand
- The illustrated list of weeds compiled by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, and sorted by common names and by botanical names.
- Manaaki Whenua Press — New Zealand Natural History & Science books
- Also part of the Landcare Research site: "we publish books on New Zealand biological and earth sciences, as well as offering some of the best natural history titles produced by other local publishers".
- Touchwood Books
- The "Grower's Bookshop" for tree, gardening, horticulture, viticulture, olive, and farming titles.
- Bonsai in New Zealand
- New Zealand Bonsai Association, the nationally recognised portal and repository for information about the New Zealand bonsai scene.
- Cactus and Succulent Society of New Zealand
- Has links to websites of branches throughout New Zealand, as well as the Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall (CSPM), an Internet resource for all growers of cacti and succulent plants.
- New Zealand Alpine Garden Society
Includes an extensive Alpine & Rock Garden Resource Link Page.
- New Zealand Arboricultural Association
- The NZAA represents Arborists throughout New Zealand.
- New Zealand Iris Society
- A non-profit society dedicated to the iris and its band of admirers.
- New Zealand Carnivorous Plant Society
- The New Zealand Carnivorous Plant Society is a nonprofit making organisation, formed in 1982 in response to the growing interest in Carnivorous Plants.
- New Zealand Native Orchids
- An outstanding site dedicated to the native orchids of New Zealand. Contains articles from the NZ Native Orchid Group Journal, a large photo section, descriptions of the various species, their habitats, and more.
New Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms and methods for modifying their effects."
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A great site for plant enthusiasts interested in the internet. Includes a Glossary of Botanical Terms, a HortiPlex (plant images and database), and much more.
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"Welcome to the Gardening Launch Pad! This list is friendly to the Home Gardener. Make The Gardening Launch Pad your starting point for all your electronic gardening needs. Number of gardening links 4883, 95% of these links are content links not commercial links."
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Photographs of perennials, gardens, and photographic tours of special gardens.
Dave's
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A community of gardeners that share tips and ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants.
- SafeGardening.co.uk
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- A public interest website developed in the UK and providing a
collection of useful garden safety tips and advice from experts.
- A public interest website developed in the UK and providing a
collection of useful garden safety tips and advice from experts.
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A really extensive and useful site containing about 4,000 botany and horticulture related links.
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"Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium."
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"The Tree of Life is a collection of about 2000 World Wide Web pages containing information about the diversity of life. These pages are authored by biologists from around the world."
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Descriptions, illustrations, interactive identification, and information retrieval. Includes Families of Flowering Plants and Grass Genera of the World.
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"Dedicated to the cultivation, conservation and scientific study of native orchids in the Australasian region." The New Zealand Native Orchid Group and several Australian Orchid groups are subsites of this parental site.
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"The professional association for qualified Horticulturists in Australia, including Landscape designers, educators, writers, nursery people, etc."
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"Growing, studying and promoting Australia's flora." A useful and comprehensive site with many links to the conservation, cultivation and study of Australian plants.
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Provides an insight into their research, collections, conservation and other activities.
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The Institute of Horticulture is the authoritative organisation representing all those professionally engaged in Horticulture in the UK & Ireland.
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The AHS is an educational, non-profit, organisation that recognises and promotes excellence in American horticulture.
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"The IBS image gallery is devoted to providing a comprehensive pictorial record of all recorded species of geophytes, including true bulbs, corms, tubors, and rhizomes."
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"The Society for Hebes and Other Native Plants of New Zealand. The Hebe Society encourages the growing of hebes and other New Zealand plants, e.g., parahebes, celmisias, olearias and leptospermums, the society also assists in their conservation and improvement."
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The
Tree of Life Home Page
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Search New Zealand and the world from this page.
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"(almost) All the New Zealand Web Sites you will Ever Want!" More than 30,000 links in their directory, including New Zealand Horticulture.
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A directory of New Zealand websites, including NZ Gardening links.
NZPAGES
- "Your New Zealand Web Directory"
AltaVistaŽ
— New Zealand
PIPERS
New Zealand Pages
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"Te Puna Web Directory is the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa's listing of New Zealand and Pacific Island web sites."
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