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Biography
Dictionary
of New Zealand Biography allows you to search for information on New Zealand
citizens, past and present.
Botany
Systematics
Association of New Zealand describes and analyses the biodiversity of
New Zealand’s plants and animals.
BiologyBrowser – resources for the life sciences information community.
Environmental Science Organisations
Natural Selection is a gateway to quality, evaluated resources in the natural world.
Phylogeny of New Zealand Plants – the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s flora.
Commercial
Alpigena Saxifraga Nursery
Bred by Peter Moore – Peter Moore is an independent Plant Breeder.
Evergreen Soil Conservation Limited : Native Plant Landscaping New Zealand – Evergreen Soil Conservation Limited is New Zealand’s foremost hydroseeding re-vegetation company. Our hydroseeding services assist with soil dust suppression and we offer a straw mulch service for sediment control. Our erosion control mat (the Evergreen Bio Mat) is suitable for difficult sites and along with tractor grass seeding we also provide a native plant landscaping service. For sites with underlying structural issues we can work in conjunction with consultants to provide an engineered environmental solution.
ForFarmers is the leading online marketplace for equipment, livestock, realestate, jobs, farm-related products and services. It helps agricultural and rural-based businesses to expand market share through an on-line trading community.
Greenhouse Catalog greenhouse accesssories and supplies
JPR Farm Direct supplies quality top soil, turf, barks, mulches and JPR Gold soil conditioner to gardeners or landscapers. It is a family run business based in the Derbyshire Peak District between Buxton, Bakewell and Sheffield.
Landscaping – Landscaping Contract – Top Dressing – Turf Care Construction Materials Limited specializes in top dressing, turf care, ground care with a variety of roadstone, equestrian sand, bunker sand, crag sand, pathways materials, golf course materials for sports surface and sports turf.
Life Irrigation install watering systems for garden irrigation, landscape irrigation and lawn irrigation.
Redpath Pacific Ltd are suppliers of greenhouses, greenhouse accessories, horticultural film, horticultural textiles and nettings, and stock shelters. Manufactures in Australia and New Zealand.
Ultimate Washer is your source for electric pressure washers, HONDA power washers, trailer power washer models, water vacuum cleaners, stainless steel tanks up to 6 gallons.
Conservation
ARKive’s
aim is to compile audio-visual records, for the 15,000-plus animals, plants and fungi currently threatened with extinction, according to the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
Department of Conservation, New Zealand, is the central government organisation charged with conserving the natural and historic heritage.
Eco-Vista aims to be the best source of bird photographs and images in New Zealand.
New Zealand Plant Conservation Network was 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.
Plant Talk the plant conservation website
NZERN ecological restoration website, New Zealand.
Gardening
Bestgardening.com – everything for New Zealand gardeners: gardens, feature articles, design ideas, plant notebook, practical gardening, garden events.
Eplants is New Zealand’s plant portal.
Garden and Green is a UK site covering gardening, the countryside and greener living. There is an interview with the Hebe Society Secretary, Tony Hayter.
Gardening Links from Garden Tourist
Gardening with Ciscoe, Seattle, WA, USA
Home and Garden Expert Articles – how to fix things up around the home, and work in the garden.
Information and Tips on Gardening
Irish Gardener’s Forum offers free access to a wealth of Irish horticultural information.
Moosey’s Country Garden is near West Melton, New Zealand, and covers about three acres.
New Zealand Gardening Directory
Plants Reunited If you’re a keen gardener then this website is here for you to......
* Buy, sell or swap your surplus seeds, bulbs, plants, vegetables and equipment etc
* Check what others are offering for sale or for swap.
* Place ‘wanted’ advertisements for those items you don’t seem to be able to find.
* Read, comment and contribute in the Community Forum
The Reckless Gardeneris a not too serious gardening magazine!
The Mulch – Gardening Community.
Wikigardens is an educational community resource.
Gardens
Essential British Gardens is a
digest of some of the finest gardens and arboretums throughout Britain and
is based on the original author’s experiences and those of other keen gardening
friends.
Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl, overlooking Puget Sound, Washington State, USA. A large website devoted to a small garden, with 5 hebes.
New Zealand Garden Trust – gardens endorsed by the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.
40 New Zealand gardens to visit – Many garden owners now offer accommodation, and a variety of functions both personal and corporate.
Winsford Walled Garden, Devon, is an enchanting garden that offers inspiring and extraordinary sights at every turn.
Institutes
Bristol Botanic Garden
is investigating ways of capturing and conserving the full width of gene availability
in hebes.
Duchy College at Rosewarne, near Camborne in Cornwall, holds the National Reference Collections for Hebe and Olearia.
Elizabeth C Miller Library, University of Washington Botanic Gardens, serves the gardening public and horticultural professional of the region.
L’Istituto Sperimentale per la Floricoltura (Institute of Experimental Floriculture), Mediterranean plants. Page of Hebe photos.
Manaaki Whenua (Landcare Research), New Zealand, focuses on the management of land resources for conservation and for primary production. They hold a large collection of hebes at Lincoln, Canterbury, South Island.
Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture is the International Registration Authority for Hebe, Leptospermum, Coprosma, Pittosporum and Phormium. There is a gallery of hebe photos.
Te Papa is the National Museum of New Zealand and has a research programme to determine the origins and evolution of Hebe.
Ulster Museum website has a section on New Zealand plants.
Magazines
Gardeners’
World Magazine
is Britain’s biggest selling gardening magazine, providing
fresh ideas and clear advice for thousands of gardeners every month.
The Best of New Zealand is the new magazine and website that focuses on the many wonderful things about New Zealand.
News
New Zealand Herald
has local
and world news, and a conservation
and environment section.
Nurseries
Australian Nurseries Online – Nursery and Garden Directory for Australia. Wholesale, mail order & retail.
Heaselands Garden Nursery Heaselands is the home of the Kleinwort family and is a famous 40 acre haven to countless unusual garden plants. The nursery allows its horticultural treasures to be shared with a wider audience, and is open by appointment only. Holders of the National Collection of Rhododendron, Knaphill and Mollis.
Nurseries Online UK Nursery and Garden Directory for the UK. Wholesale, mail order & retail.
Nurseries Online USANursery and Garden Directory for the USA. Wholesale, mail order & retail.
Pictures
Eco-Vista aims to be the best source
of bird photographs and images in New Zealand.
Fabprints – Orchids, Flowers, Fruits, Butterflies 1650–1930s on Modern Fine ArtPrints.
Foto Search Image Library offers over 1 million images in its extensive online archive, including photography, clipart, illustrations, footage, and maps.
New Zealand Plant Pics – Paul Ashford, a landscape designer from Dunedin, New Zealand, has produced this site as a reference picture gallery for gardeners, and as a catalogue of high quality images for the horticulture and publishing trades.
Pictures of New Zealand plants by Ruth Ripley, also pictures of New Zealand scenery
Places
Exploring the Kaimai Bush is here
to help you to learn about some of the fungi, native flora and fauna of the
Kaimai–Mamaku Forest Park, with particular emphasis on the area near
Katikati, in the Western Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand.
Fiordland is the largest national park in New Zealand and one of the largest in the world. It has been recognised as one of the world’s foremost natural landscapes.
Plants
Alpigena Saxifraga Nursery
is a specialist grower of porphyrion saxifrages, oppositifolias, silver saxes,
androsaces, gentians, and a nice range of other alpines from all over the
world.
Alpine Plants of New Zealand – this site is for those interested in the cultivation and ecology of these plants.
Bushman’s Friend is a website that is developing a biological key for identifying New Zealand native plants.This is a blog (web log) celebrating New Zealand Native Plants.
Deeproot Plant Base is a plant encyclopaedia for Windows PCs.
Flora
of New Zealand
Volume I – Indigenous Tracheophyta. Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae,
Dicotyledons
Volume II – Indigenous Tracheophyta. Monocotyledones Except Gramineae
Volume III – Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
Volume IV – Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
Volume V – Gramineae
Volume 1985 Lichens
Volume 2007(1) Lichens – Revised Second Edition Volume One
Volume 2007(2) Lichens – Revised Second Edition Volume Two
Garden Flora of Northern Ireland the gardens contain a rich selection of flora from around the world. New Zealand Plants are described here.
GIT Forestry Consulting – Northernmost flowering Eucalyptus, Scandinavian gum trees
Grow’Em Plant Propagation Database
Hebes in Oregon – the landscape evaluation of Hebe at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC) was established in 2000. The purpose is to compare performance of a range of Hebe species and cultivars under typical western Oregon conditions.
Heidi Meudt is researching Ourisia, found in the New Zealand mountains, alpine Tasmania and the southern Andes.
Hidden Forest has information and photographs of New Zealand Fungi also including Slime Moulds, Lichens and Bryophytes.
Hoheria page is a good source of information on Hoheria.
Linda Walls’ butterfly garden in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK.
L’Istituto Sperimentale per la Floricoltura (Institute of Experimental Floriculture), Mediterranean plants. Page of Hebe photos.
New Zealand fungi the gateway to all things fungal in New Zealand.
New Zealand Native Orchids are found from the coastline to the alpine herbfields, these shy creatures are a much overlooked part of the New Zealand Native Flora.
New Zealand plants in Northern Ireland
NCCPG National Collection of Phormium , is held by Howard and Sally Wills, near Rosemoor, in Devon, at the Fernwood Nursery; here they grow 70 phormium cultivars.
Pittosporum tenuifolium cultivar pictures – high-resolution (2 MB); low-resolution (710 KB) – RHS Plant Bulletin.
Plants For A Future – information on rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses.
Plants Reunited If you’re a keen gardener then this website is here for you to......
* Buy, sell or swap your surplus seeds, bulbs, plants, vegetables and equipment etc
* Check what others are offering for sale or for swap.
* Place ‘wanted’ advertisements for those items you don’t seem to be able to find.
* Read, comment and contribute in the Community Forum
Polynesian Plants an introduction in German and English with many good photos.
Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture is the International Registration Authority for Hebe, Leptospermum, Coprosma, Pittosporum and Phormium. There is a gallery of hebe photos.
Te Papa is the National Museum of New Zealand and has a research programme to determine the origins and evolution of Hebe.
Wikigardens is an educational community resource.
Schools
Bonsai School of
Minorca courses, workshops and lectures.
Societies
Alpine Garden Society
The Society is for anyone interested in
alpine plants, rock gardening and rock garden plants, in fact any small
hardy plants and bulbs.
American Horticultural Society
Hardy Plant Society – for hardy plant and garden lovers everywhere.
NZ High Commission – Clubs and Associations in the UK and Ireland lists organisations useful to New Zealanders living in the UK and Ireland.
Ranunculaceae Society promotes the growing of members of the buttercup family.
Royal Horticultural Society the Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening.
Scottish Rock Garden Club promotes the cultivation of alpine and rock garden plants and bulbs. The Website is also home of the lively Scottish Rock Forum.
Tatton Garden Society runs the Quinta Arboretum, Swettenham, Congleton, Cheshire. The Hebe Society built five display beds, and planted them with 120 different hebes in spring 2004.
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