Forums and Online Communities

Lively community of gardening enthusiasts, forums, plant and seed swaps, articles, gardening tips, and photographs.

A forum and the ability to browse members' gardens. Listing new gardens is only available to paying members.

Message board for communing with other gardeners. Includes a butterfly garden guide, weed identifier, and e-cards.

Discussion forums on several gardening topics, as well as a few home improvement topics.

A web front to several usenet newsgroups, covering general, regional, and water gardening topics. Threads are displayed forum-style. Posting requires registering with the site.

Family-friendly site offering gardening forums, members photo albums, and member-contributed links.

A very active gardening forum with members from around the world.

The website of Gardens Monthly magazine with an active forum for swapping ideas and solving problems.

Community of gardeners offering a wide range of resources. Forums on a large variety of general and specialized topics, glossary of botanical terms, seed exchange, and plant directory.

Hosts forums, garden exchanges, articles, contests and a plant database.

Offers planting tips, gardening history, forums, quotes, and a monthly newsletter.

A free social network for gardeners that provides photo upload, gardening blog and a feature to list plants.

Canadian gardening resource site by editor and Master Gardener, Donna Dawson. Includes a member's area, news, articles, book reviews, clubs, suppliers, pictures and links.

MYeFlora is a complete garden resource and community: A Channel for all gardeners to come together to share knowledge and information for the benefit of other gardeners.

Information resources, e-zine, forums, and links of interest to Northern gardeners and landscapers (USDA hardiness zones 1-5). Includes a landscape plant search, articles, climatic data, and business locators.