With gray dreary days and frost on the windowsill, it may not seem like spring is just around the corner -- but before you know it you'll be out there with a hoe in hand! So as long as you are sitting around staring at a computer screen, you might as well be working on those gardening plans or at least daydreaming about all the new plant and seed varieties cropping up.

To help you in your quest, AHS OnLine has put together a collection of on-line gardening catalogs. Our collection includes both companies familiar to most gardeners and some lesser-known, but exceptional plant, seed and supply sources. For your convenience, we have divided the collection into the following categories: seeds, perennials and ornamental shrubs/trees, specialties, and tools and garden supply. So, go get yourself a cup of hot chocolate, snuggle up to the warmth of the computer screen, and enjoy...

SEEDS

• Johnny's Selected Seeds has been serving home gardeners and commercial growers with quality vegetable, flower, herb, and farm seeds, tools, and supplies since 1973.
• Park Seed Company has an easy-to-use on-line seed catalog and so much more, including gardening how-to's, recipes, and a tomato contest.
• For the gourmet gardener, try The Cook’s Garden.
• An old favorite, Burpee Seeds delivers on-line!
• Earthly Goods promises to have on-line shopping by late February.
• Heirloom Seeds -- all heirlooms, all the time!
• One of the big seed companies, Stokes Seed also has interesting information on farm tests of new varieties.
• Need lots of seed? Territorial Seed Company offers alot of varieties in varying quantities.
• In the tradition of the great 17 - 19th century botanists who travelled the globe in search of new species for gardens back home, we sail the seas of the electronic age and bring you a world of plants right to your garden eSeeds.com.
• Victory Seed Company is a small family operated organization working to preserve old seed varieties as well as horticultural history. They offer only untreated, open-pollinated seeds. Their site contains hundreds of pages of information as well as many rare varieties.

PERENNIALS AND ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS/TREES

• An amazing assortment at even more amazing prices -- Bluestone Perennials
• Great plant descriptions on the Companion Plants site.
• White Flower Farm, well known for its beautiful mail-order catalog has only limited varieties available on-line, but the site also includes gardening tips and links.
• Niche Gardens offers an extensive list of plants, but appears to still be working on-line from the 1998 catalog.
• Plants of the Southwest specializes in drought tolerant native plants and seeds.
• Plant Delights specializes in unusual perennials including amorphophallus, arisaema, asarum, ferns, hardy palms, helleborus, heuchera, hosta, lobelia, ornamental grasses, pulmonaria, tiarella, and verbena.
• The Wayside Gardens site touts over 1,200 plants, bulbs, roses and gardening supplies.

SPECIALTIES

• For rhododendrons and Azaleas try Roslyn Nursery or A Sandy Rhododendron
• Over 700 cultivars of daylilies are available on-line from Oakes Daylilies.
• Evergreen Gardenworks offers a vast selection of bonsai-trained shrubs, trees, and vines.
• Sixty-four years of growing tuberous Begonias gives Antonelli Brothers Begonia Gardens an edge!
• Rose experts and novice gardeners alike are familiar with Jackson and Perkins roses; also give Edmunds’ Roses a try.
• Good photos, a downloadable plant list and order form, and lots of Cacti and Succulents for sale from Miles to Go.
• Stark Brothers, a great standby for fruits or try Edible Landscaping with on-line specials!
• Be a "Fun Guy" with Fun Guy Farm or "perfect" your fungi garden with Fungi Perfecti.
• Rock Spray - the source for heaths and heathers.
• Everything for your water garden is available from Van Ness Water Gardens or Lilypons.
• From orchids to oranges, palms to passiflora, helconia to hibiscus, you'll find it on one of these exotics and tropicals sites - Glasshouse Works; Aloha Tropicals; Four Winds Growers
• Bulbs for fall and spring planting are available from Dutch Gardens and Van Bourgondien Bros.
• Great herbs, on-line specials, and medicinal information from Ritchers.

GARDEN SUPPLY AND TOOLS

• Charley's Greenhouse Supply is a great source for greenhouses and indoor gardening supplies.
• A.M. Leonard, Inc. offers "tools that work" and internet specials!
• The popular mail-order Gardener's Supply Company catalog is on-line, too!
• Organic gardening supplies from Gardens Alive!
• From tools to clothing, Gempler's has "real products for real people doing real work."
• Hydro-Gardens, Inc. offers hydroponics information, supplies, and more.
• Looking for a tool bargain? This site is the "yard sale" for Ames Tools.
• Garden Hardware Co. is a new source for quality tools and other gardening equipment.”

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