All-America Selections The All-America Selections mission is "To promote new garden seed varieties with superior garden performance judged in impartial trials in North America." Check their website for award winning flowers.
Annual flowers for Minnesota Defines annual flowers and illustrates many uses in the landscape, including container growing. Discusses choosing kinds and varieties for different growing conditions, starting from seeds or plants, times of planting, and seasons of bloom. Pictures twenty common Minnesota annuals plus several varieties. This is a downloadable slide program.
Celebrating Wildflowers Celebrating Wildflowers is dedicated to the enjoyment of the thousands of wildflowers growing on our national forests and grasslands, and to educating the public about the many values of native plants. We hope you enjoy the website and come back to visit often!
Cornell Flower Guides
Guides to 269 flowers and foliage plants. Each profile contains a detailed description and growing instructions, site and soil requirements, varieties, and special
uses.
Gardening with Perennials Cultural information for common perennials including specific uses, planting, transplanting and division.
Perennial Plant Association: Perennial of the Year Memebers select a perennial plant of the year based on suitablity for a wide range of climatic conditions,low maintenance, pest and disease resistance,
readily available in the year of release, multiple seasons of ornamental interest, easily propagated by asexual or seed propagation
Stepping Stones to Perennial Garden Design Information on site assessment, garden style and display, perennial selection, perennial placement and bed preparation and maintenance.
