In this technological age we are often overwhelmed with information. Some of it good and some of it bad. On the internet there is a tremendous amount of gardening information, but is it reliable? Well, here are five horticulture web sites, which are not only reliable but well organized and comprehensive.

University of Illinois Extension's Hort Corner
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/hort
Now really, did you expect some other web site? The Hort Corner is an easy to navigate, well-organized site with a wide variety of horticultural information. Selecting Trees for Your Home will help you find the right tree for your yard. The Bug Review allows you to control insects inside and outside your home. Ask the Expert allows you to ask an Extension horticulturist a gardening question. There is much more information on this site about perennials, annuals, roses, vegetables, bulbs, water gardens, strawberries and Christmas trees.

The Gardening Launch Pad
http://gardeninglaunchpad.com
If you ever wanted a good starting point for gardening information this is the place. The Launch Pad has thousands of links divided into well-organized categories from African violets to Xeriscape. A retired garden center coordinator from Austin, Texas, started the site.

The Web Garden at Ohio State University
http://webgarden.osu.edu
This award-winning site has a little bit of something for every gardener. A plants fact section has over 260,000 pages of information. Also on this site is a database of images of ornamental plants, turf, plant diseases and insects. Two hundred gardening how to videos and over 600 commonly asked gardening questions make this site a must visit.

Consumer Horticulture from North Carolina State University
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer
This is one of the more comprehensive horticulture sites on the Internet. It has over 4,000 factsheets on specific plants including images, cultivars and cultural information. Five thousand links to horticulture related web sites organized into 50 categories and 100 factsheets on growing vegetables, flowers, houseplants, trees and shrubs provide a gold mine of information for gardeners.

Gardening Resources at Cornell University
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gardening/index.html
This is a fairly new and evolving site with a flower and foliage plant database, vegetable gardening guides and lawn care videos and calendar.

So, rev up that computer and plan your garden for the next growing season, find solutions to last year's problems or get a gardening question answered by a horticulturist without leaving the comfort of your home.