Gardeners’ Links

This is a great list of resources to broaden your garden knowledge!.

City of Coronado Approved Street Trees
Coronado has beautiful tree lined streets that are maintained by the City of Coronado. Through trial and error the City of Coronado has compiled a list of trees that are less invasive and more sidewalk friendly.
Download PDF – “Caring for your Street Tree”

Master Gardener San Diego
Hotline phone number – (858) 694-2860
Over one-hundred Master Gardeners provide home gardening and pest control information through out the county, FREE to the public. The Master Gardeners are volunteers trained and supervised by Farm Advisor Vincent Lazaneo, of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE).

Be Water Wise
From Southern California Water Agencies: California Friendly Garden Guide
This site is full of useful information geared toward water conservation, including plant lists, online classes and even a hotline for your questions.

Cuyamaca College Water Conservation Garden
Promoting water conservation in the southern California landscape through excellent exhibits and programs that educate and inspire the public.

Quail Botanical Gardens
Located up the coast in Encinitas, Quail Botanical Gardens features over 35 acres of exhibits, including rare bamboo groves, desert gardens, a tropical rainforest, California native plants, Mediterranean climate landscapes, the Undersea Succulent Garden, Landscaping for Fire Safety and a subtropical fruit garden.

Wild Scaping
Wildscaping is a site dedicated to helping fellow gardeners in Southern California learn how to attract and nurture wildlife in their own yards.

American Rose Society
The American Rose Society invites all lovers of roses to join, regardless of knowledge and experience of roses. For information about choosing, growing, pruning roses and more, this website will have all the information you are looking for. The only qualification you need is a love for roses!

National Garden Bureau
The National Garden Bureau is dedicated to the dissemination of accurate information so that home gardeners can successfully grow flowers and vegetables from seed.

All American Selections
Use this site to discover what plants are new and highly rated in the gardening world. Plants are judged by a network of independent judges to determine the most superior plants to be found in nurseries and seed catalogs.

National Arbor Day Foundation
Inspiration for People to Plant, Nurture, and Celebrate Trees! This site is a great resource for all sorts of information about trees including tree identification, planting, pruning, and benefits of trees.

Emily Compost
An Internet Plot with a Garden of Information

Theodore Payne Foundation
Founded and incorporated in 1960, the Theodore Payne Foundation promotes the understanding and preservation of California native flora.

USDA PLANTS Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about plants of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references.

The International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.

Hortiplex
This site contains plant images and data, as well as links to information sources, plant images and vendors at other sites.

iVillage Garden Web
A website devoted to providing resources for the serious gardener including discussion forums, plant exchange and lots of interesting information.

Desert Wildflower Watch
This site is a great way to know when the wildflowers are in bloom in the deserts. Also, lots of other information related to the desert.

The Mulch
A new website to research plants, learn from experts, share ideas and information about plants in the San Diego area. Join in gardening conversation with fellow gardeners!!!

Laminated Garden Guides
- Click here to visit Laminated Garden Guides website!