Kit Gage Gardener's Adviser

Kit Gage - Gardener's Adviser - Resources

Activist Plant and Land/Biome Groups

• National Capital Region Watershed Stewards Academy
• Anacostia Watershed Society
• Audubon Naturalist Society of the Mid-Atlantic
• Chesapeake Bay Landscaping Council
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Friends of Sligo Creek
• Garden Rant blog by local gardeners
• Maryland Native Plant Society - also includes plant lists
• Montgomery County Maryland Rainscapes rebate program

Plant Identification and Source Websites

• US Dept of Agriculture Plants Profile
• Invasive Plant Lists - National Park Service
• Maryland Invasive Species
• Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
• Native Plant Nurseries of the Chesapeake Bay Region - US Fish & Wildlife Service

Very Selected Books and Pamphlets

• Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens, Allan M. Armitage
• Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers, American Horticultural Society , Christopher Brickell & Trevor Cole
• Manual of Woody Landscape Plants , Michael A. Dirr (or anything else by Dirr)
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, Brooklyn botanic Garden All-Region Guides , C. Colston Burrell
• Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat & Conservation Landscaping, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service booklet
• Native Plants of the Northeast, Donald J. Leopold
• Rain Gardens, Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden