The Inside Dirt at iloveplants.com - January 2004

In This Issue:
* Our Top Website Choices for January for Garden Catalogs, Garden Websites and Garden Products

Greetings fellow gardeners and a warm welcome to all of our new subscribers!

Happy New Gardening Year! A brand new year is a great time to make some changes and this year we will be featuring our most popular websites. Our top choices will be determined by you. All visitors to iloveplants.com can rate and review every website we have listed. So take advantage of this opportunity and leave your comments as you browse our links. January may not be the best time to garden in some parts of the country, but it's a great time to begin preparing for spring.

This month our top website choices include the top two garden catalogs and garden information websites on iloveplants.com. Enjoy browsing through these catalogs as you begin placing your spring orders and don't miss out on all the 'free' gardening advice and tips offered in the garden websites. If you're not able to go outdoors and enjoy your garden then pull up a seat and do your gardening online.

Our Top Website Picks for Garden Catalogs

Now that the holidays are over it�s time to surf the web for plant and seed catalogs and place your orders for spring. A quick and easy way to locate garden catalogs or order them online is in our �ORDER YOUR GARDEN CATALOGS DIRECTORY.� We�ve got links to 19 catalogs covering everything from apples to wildflowers. Here are two of the most popular catalogs contained in our directory. You can order them online in one easy step or visit their websites.

AMERICAN MEADOWS carries 70 individual wildflower species. You�ll find a great variety to choose from such as regional mixes, partial shade mix, all-perennial and all-annual mix, butterfly and hummingbird mix and a kid�s ladybug garden kit.

GRACEFUL GARDENS provides a selection of English cottage garden plants, with a specialization in delphiniums, annuals and perennials. Here you will find easy to grow plants at affordable prices.

Our Top Website Picks for Garden Information

The weather outside might be dismal, but garden websites are filled with inspiration. Our GARDEN WEBSITES PAGE has links to 60 garden related websites offering a vast amount of gardening advice for free! Our viewers have rated these two websites a �10� � the highest rating possible:

THE GARDEN HELPER is peppered with gardening and landscape advice and tips, including a garden encyclopedia, photo gallery, help for beginners, gardening and plant guides, a forum for sharing with other gardeners and much more.

THE GARDENER'S NETWORK contains an abundance of plant and seasonal information, garden fun and a garden message board. If you have created your own gardening homepage, you can add it to their website to share it with others.

Our Top Website Picks for Garden Products

Now is a great time to check your garden tools and supplies to see what needs replacing. Our GARDEN SUPPLIES PAGE provides 26 links to companies with all sorts of helpful products.

One website of interest offering garden supplies is YARDIAC.COM. Here you will find a multitude of products ranging from animal repellants to trellises and everything in between. They�ve got a great selelction of Felco Tools � hand pruners, tools, pruning saws, loppers and hedge shears.

The Gardener�s Bookshelf

It's the start of a new gardening year and a garden journal is a practical and easy way to help you remember monthly tasks, plant names and much more. The New Three-Year Garden Journal: With Regional Planning Guides by Louise Carter and Joanne S. Lawson is �chock full of information, it is spiral-bound to lay flat so it�s easy to write in. Each month begins with advice on plants and design. It is illustrated with color photos and weather warnings and garden tasks are given by regions of the country.�