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Gardens

This area lists two categories of website: 1. Sites about actual gardens - public gardens, private gardens, botanical gardens, arboreta, personal garden pages. 2. Sites about particular styles of gardens, including examples of such gardens, tips for creating them, etc. Sites that contain information detailing how to achieve certain effects within a garden are listed here, as well as those showcasing their own achievements with a particular style. Sites are categorized according to their main focus. If a public, private, or personal garden site focuses (almost) exclusively on a particular style of garden, you'll find it in the category for that style. Gardens whose style doesn't neatly fall into the style categories are filed in the general public, private, personal, or community garden categories. Sites that sell products or showcase businesses are not listed here.

Follow the category description below. If the website you''d like to submit is focused on a particular garden or a particular style of gardening, submit the site into the appropriate subcategory. Only sites containing information about multiple gardens spanning various subcategories are listed at this top level

This category is for information only sites. Do not submit sites that sell products or showcase businesses here.

Alpine

This category lists websites dedicated to alpine and rock gardening. Some document a particular public, private or personal garden designed in this style, while others give information, tips, and tricks related to this garden style.

Submit your site here if it fits the category description above. This category is for informational sites only. Please do not submit sites selling products or services here.

Community

Websites related to community gardening, where members of the community tend gardens in public or communal spaces. This includes gardens providing produce for members of the community as well as allotment gardens in which individuals tend small lots within a larger garden area. This category includes sites for specific gardens, community gardening organizations, and forums/other resources on the topic.

Cottage

This category lists websites dedicated to cottage gardens - those designed or tended in a carefree style with plenty of flowers. Some document a particular public, private or personal garden designed in this style, while others give information, tips, and tricks related to this garden style.

Submit your site here if it fits the category description above. This category is for informational sites only. Please do not submit sites selling products or services here.

Japanese

This category lists websites dedicated to gardens in the Japanese style. Some document a particular public, private or personal garden designed in this style, while others give information, tips, and tricks related to this garden style.

Submit your site here if it fits the category description above. This category is for informational sites only. Please do not submit sites selling products or services here. Please see also the Zen Rock Gardens category under: Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Buddhism/Lineages/Zen/Arts/Rock_Gardens/ to see if it is more appropriate for your site.

Low Allergen

Plant selection and gardening techniques that reduce the amount of allergens in the garden.

Sites about allergies should be submitted to Health: Conditions and Diseases: Allergies.

Sites about pollen counts and air quality should be submitted to News: Weather: Air Quality.

Sites offering gardening products for sale online should be submitted to the appropriate category under Shopping: Home and Garden.

Sites offering allergy products for sale online should be submitted to Shopping: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Allergies.

Personal

In this category you will find websites and home pages for gardeners documenting their personal gardens, with non-commercial sites.

If a personal garden website primarily describes a garden (and its flowers, wildlife, etc.), this is the best place to submit it. If the garden is strongly focused on a particular style of garden (for example, Japanese garden, alpine/rock garden, or water garden), submit it in the appropriate style subcategory within the Home/Gardening/Gardens category. If the primary focus of the website is not a particular garden, but a resource to fellow gardeners (how to create a particular style of garden, tips and tricks, etc.), submit the site to the category that most closely fits the topic of the website.

Please do not submit commercial sites or sites with gardening books or services you can purchase here.

Private

Descriptions, photos, and information about private gardens of renown around the world. Gardens featured in the websites listed here are not routinely open to the public, but may be open by appointment or invitation. Examples include gardens designed by famous garden architects, or gardens known from television shows and gardening magazines. Websites listed here are descriptive, focusing more on the garden than the gardener or the process of gardening. They often include sections on the garden's history and development, its design philosophy, and photo galleries.

Submit websites here that fit the description above. Websites documenting a personal garden with a personal feel are properly placed in Home/Gardening/Gardens/Personal.

This category is for information only sites. Sites which sell products or showcase businesses dealing with any of the topics in this category should find the most appropriate subcategory in Shopping, Business, or Regional.

Public

Descriptions, photos, and information about gardens around the world that are routinely open to the public.

This category is for information only sites. Sites that sell products or showcase businesses dealing with any of the topics in this category should find the most appropriate subcategory in Shopping, Business, or Regional.

Sites listed here are about gardens that, as a matter of routine, are open to the public (regardless of whether they are privately or publicly owned).

Rain

Rain gardens are landscaped areas, usually planted with native plants, that make use of rainwater runoff in the yard.

For the gardener, rain gardens reclaim rainwater and result in more rainwater soaking into the ground. This also reduces the amount of stormwater runoff carrying pollution and debris into nearby lakes and waterways and helps reduce local flooding.

Online stores offering plants and supplies for rain gardening should be submitted to the appropriate category under Shopping: Home and Garden.

Religious

Gardening traditions, religion, and spirituality have been interwoven in many cultures. Religious gardens may honor a deity and/or serve as a place of religious meditation. This category collects sites about garden types and styles from various religious contexts.

Sites of general Christian interest should go one level up. This category is intended to hold listings for gardens focusing on elements unique to Catholic and Orthodox Christian traditions, including Marian gardens, contextual outdoor Stations of the Cross, walking rosaries, and gardens built around shrines to saints.

Urban

Urban gardens are located in cities or towns, usually with limited space and facilities. Includes gardens on rooftops, balconies, and other urban spaces.

Water

This category lists websites dedicated to water gardening: in-ground and container ponds, streams, garden fountains and waterfalls. Some document a particular public, private or personal garden designed in this style, while others give information, tips, and tricks related to this garden style. Descriptions of the subcategories are listed below.

Submit your site to one of the subcategories here if it fits the category description below.

This category is for informational sites only. Please do not submit sites selling products or services here.