Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Tips for Starting a School Garden
Find a useful guide to help start a school garden. Kids will dig the class project!
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Rain Garden Resources
Find some tips on how to plant a rain garden to help filter and absorb rain.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Elements of a Japanese Garden [Pdf]
A multi-faceted activity where students learn about the elements of a Japanese garden, then construct a peepshow book that demonstrates their understanding of foreground, middle ground, and background to represent a Japanese garden....
Practical Action
Practical Action: Floating Garden Challenge
In this unit, students will learn about the difficulty that farmers in Bangladesh and the UK experience trying to grow crops on land that is regularly flooded. Then they will be challenged to make a model of a structure that can float to...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Read an overview of "The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Install Edible Gardens
Find out the benefits of planting a garden that provides a sustainable source of food for people.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Garden Vocabulary: Haiku [Pdf]
A mini-unit on haiku where learners learn about and write haiku inspired by Japanese gardens. This activity is intended to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden, but this is not essential.
Other
Garden With Insight: Vapor Pressure in the Garden
Basic information about the role of vapor pressure in the garden. In addition, a free garden simulator can be downloaded in which various quantities can be measured.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Buds and Blossoms From Our Own Garden
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Buds and Blossoms from our Own Garden by Francis Channing Woodworth, a book of stories for children.
Other
Better Homes and Gardens: Ethnic Food Recipes
Enjoy your favorite restaurant meals at home with ethnic-inspired recipes from Better Homes and Gardens. You'll find delicious recipes for cuisine including Mexican, Asian, Italian, French, and more.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: I Haven't Told My Garden Yet
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "I Haven't Told My Garden Yet --", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Native Habitat Garden Tip Sheet
All regions grow special plants naturally which attract specific creatures. This tip sheet will help guide planters to selecting native plants for an area.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27)
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27)", an expressionist painting by Wassily Kandinsky.
Other
Patterns of Evidence: Hanging Gardens of Babylon Made by Biblical King?
The author of this blog entry discusses the theory that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon mentioned in the Bible and generally attributed to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon may have actually been built by King Sennacherib of Assyria at his...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Occasional Garden" by H. H. Munro
Text of the short story "The Occasional Garden" by Scottish author H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Pollinators at Home: Intro to Pollinator Gardening
Find out how to provide native plants that foster the activity of insects and other pollinators.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Georgian Entertainment: From Pleasure Gardens to Blood Sports
This article examines the variety of entertainment and leisure activities enjoyed in Georgian Britain.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Irrigation Conservation for Trees, Shrubs, Gardens, and Lawn
Find out how to provide the proper amount of water for optimal growth and biodiversity in a backyard habitat.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Grounds Maintenance Workers
This resource offers insite to various ground maintenance occupations. Includes information on jobs such as landscaping, groundskeeping, nursery, greenhouse, and lawn service.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Additional Poems by h.d.
This site houses full texts of numerous poems by the American poet Hilda Doolittle. Among the poems are "Sheltered Garden," "Sea Poppies," and "Cities," to name just a few.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics&victorians Popular Culture
From circuses and 'freak shows' to broadsides and novels, from pleasure gardens and music halls to chapbooks and penny dreadfuls, Georgian and Victorian Britain offered the public a rich range of affordable entertainments. Read more...
Royal Botanic Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens: Millenium Seed Bank
The Millenium Seed Bank is one of the Millenium Commission's National Landmark projects. Visit this site to learn how this project hopes to conserve seed samples.
Other
A Virtual Tour of St. Petersburg, Russia
Take a virtual tour of St. Petersburg, Russia. See the Peter and Paul Fortress, the cabin of Peter the Great, the summer garden and summer palace of Peter the Great, the Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, the Menshikov Palace, the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in Early Colonial America
Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...
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