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Advice about Specific Plants
Below you will find links which will help you find information about specific plants. Some of the sites just provide information about a plant's characteristics whereas others provide detailed plant care and cultivation information.
Includes recommended varieties and "top growing tips" for many popular plants.
The Plant Press is an online Garden Encylopedia. Although it is a subscription based website you can get plant characteristics informatin for a wide range of plants for free.
Crocus, is of course a commercial site, but you will find that they tend to give a lot of information about each of the plants they sell including basic care information.
Includes general advice for many different types of plants
Specialised Plant Advice
Bulbs
Direct Bulbs has information about different types of bulbs and how to cultivate them.
Clematis
Information on planting & pruning clematis, and growing clematis in containers from Thorncroft Clematis Nursery.
Fruit Trees & Bushes
Advice on growing a wide range of fruit trees and bushes from Reads Nursery - Nurserymen since 1841.
Blackmoor Nurseries' Fruit Growers Handbook (online) provides information on the planting & pruning of fruit trees, soft fruit culture, pests & diseases & pollination together with a calendar of care.
Trees
Online guides to planting and caring for trees from The Tree Shop (Woodland Improvement & Conservation)
Vegetables
Thompson & Morgan provide a guide to growing potatoes and a number of factsheets on how to grow popular vegetables.
BBC Gardening have detailed information about how to grow a wide range of vegetables.
Wildflowers UK.com has an extensive information about cultivating wildflowers.
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