habitat gardening resources

The University of Maryland College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension operates the Home and Garden Information Center. Resources on lawns, fruits, vegetable gardening, pests, etc.

Widely acknowledged as a sustainable approach to pest management, the Integrated Pest Management[IPM] approach combines the use of biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tactics in a manner that strives to minimize economic, health, and environmental risks.

The Maryland Turfgrass Council

Insect Pests of Ornamental Plants -- "Bug of the Week"

Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing encyclopedia of life that now has 1,194,793 species pages.

WildFlower.org - Lady Bird Johnson, our former first lady, and Actress Helen Hayes founded an organization in 1982 to protect and preserve North America's native plants and natural landscapes.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Wild Ones - Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.