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Pick of the Bunch
our Favourite Horticulture
and Related Sites
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- New
Zealand Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
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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
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- 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."
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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".
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- 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.
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- 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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"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.
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Dave's
Garden
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A community of gardeners that share tips and
ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants.
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- 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.

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A really extensive and useful site containing
about 4,000 botany and horticulture related links.
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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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"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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Homepage to the Royal Horticultural Society. Includes
access to the RHS
Plant Finder.
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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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Search
Engines and Directories
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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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NZPAGES
- "Your New Zealand Web Directory"
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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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