Links and Other Blogs with Helpful Tips:
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Californian Garden Wonders:
Environmental Organizations:
- Almanac: This is a great website with many tips from farmers and gardeners in the United States! They have everything from Planting Guides to Frost Maps.
- Better Homes and Gardens: You might have heard about their magazine. Their website is a treasure hoard of valuable tips and information for all sorts of places. As students living in Arcadia, the link specifically brings you to Southern California tips -- but don't let that discourage you. They are masters of the whole country on garden-related tidbits!
- UC Master Gardener Program: Don't let that intimidating title discourage you -- this is a site meant for the public with advice from professors and students from Universities of California to make YOU the Master Gardener! No pay, no anything -- just a wealth-load of information at your hands!
- Wildlife Hotline: Humans and wildlife are getting closer and closer each day with the ever-changing environment. With contact unfortunately comes conflict at times. Here's what to do with an orphaned, injured, or problematic animal on your yard.
- Beyond Pesticides: While not entirely about gardens, this site's great for understanding the dangers of industrial chemicals like pesticides and the threat they pose to humans. They provide alternatives to pesticide use and give a deeper understanding of IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
- Water Use It Wisely: Visit for 100 ways to save water in your household and educate your kids about the importance of water!
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- US Humane Society: This is a website filled with links to safe products to resolve wildlife conflicts.
- Armstrong Garden Centers: These stores provide quality service as well as an abundance of garden plants and equipment -- all with delivery service and warranties!
- Garden Center's Top 100: This pdf of a magazine tells the top sales-making independent gardening retailers in America with little descriptions and links to each store chain's website.
Californian Garden Wonders:
- Garden Design: This link actually connects to the tag of our very own Southern California area! There are many great designs of SoCal's own unique tastes and individualistic ideals!
- Houzz: This link also connects to California tagged photos -- 150,000 of them actually! If you ever want inspiration, then here's the place to look!
- Garden Visit: This site has detailed information of California's publicly-funded botanical gardens and even tour guide information! Want to check out an arboretum? Here's a great place to look before you make the drive -- or fly for our airplane users~
- Las Pilitas: Ever wondered what a California native garden looked like? Or even what our local native plants are? Look on this site for more information and pictures!
Environmental Organizations:
- Heal the Bay: An organization dealing with Earth's lovely water systems. Become a member or volunteer to save the turtles!
- TreePeople: An organization dealing with Earth's earthy terrestrial systems. Become a member or volunteer to save the trees!
- California Native Garden Foundation: An organization encouraging the growing of California's very own native plants in gardens! They teach eco-literacy, urban sustainability, and life sciences in their ELSEE program as well! All free~!
- Amigos de los Rios: An organization encouraging public awareness of the nature around them and revitalizing city neighborhoods by protecting and restoring open spaces with public environments like parks and trails. Become a member or volunteer to make Southern California a better place!
- California Native Plant Society: Native plants are important so here's another website with guides on native planting in California, stores for local nurseries, and opportunities to learn more!
- Food Forward: A voluntary organization in Southern California that promotes issues of food justice and donate excess fruits and vegetables to the community's most vulnerable and hungry. Share the joy of food; share the abundance of good!