Places where gardeners meet online to share questions and answers, experience, companionship, photos and/or journals. Includes general gardening forum sites as well as people-oriented gardening portals, and sites for "mailing lists" that conduct all or part of their communications via email.
Maintain plants and seeds inventory, discuss gardening, and trade seeds and plants with fellow gardeners. Many features are only available to paying members, some also to the general public. http://davesgarden.com/
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. http://www.icangarden.com/
A discussion forum for the home gardener. Members provide helpful answers for home gardening questions in a number of topics. http://www.helpfulgardener.com/phpBB2/
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. http://www.gardenweb.com/
Worldwide community chats via an e-mail mailing list on a wide variety of topics including gardening. Archives online available to members of the list. http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/gardens.html
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. http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/
Forums and photo galleries covering many gardening topics, visited by an international audience. Archives of plant information. http://gardenbuddies.com
Friendly meeting place for home gardeners, mostly from the Northern half of the US. Photo galleries, message board, and lots of links to gardening resources. http://groups.msn.com/NorthernGardening/
Directory of gardening topics available at this resource site. Each topic is written by a different regular editor. http://www.suite101.com/gardencenter/
Online community focused on gardening with a simplified-living bent. Forums, a few articles, links to extension services, and printable journals and logs. http://www.homesteadgarden.com/
This site focuses on daylilies, providing articles on their cultivation and hybridization, as well as an extensive database. Also provides discussions of some other flowers and vegetables. Most of the action is in the many forums. http://www.tinkersgardens.com/
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. http://www.northscaping.com/
The treehouse forum at this group features friendly discussion of various gardening topics. Also includes links to worthwhile gardening resources, and members' photo albums. Must join group (free) to read and participate. http://groups.msn.com/greatimpressions/