There are thousands of good web sites that deal with gardening, landscaping, and home improvement. Here are some of the best for the Kentucky/Ohio/Indiana area:

Local home and garden sites 

www.bcarboretum.org
Boone County Arboretum... just down the road from us.  See more than 3000 varieties of trees and shrubs growing in a "living museum."

www.tristatehortconsulting.com
Tri-State Horticultural Consulting, LLC.  Commercial and Residential Landscape Solutions.  In Boone County.

www.civicgardencenter.org
Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati.  Gardening programs and classes in the Cincinnati area.  Plant sales, kids' garden activities, and community gardening projects too.

www.mastergardener.org
Greater Cincinnati Master Gardener Association.  Find out about horticultural projects and learning opportunities going on around the Cincinnati area.


Plant information sites

www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/SCIENTIFIC/scientific_index.html
Great pictures and useful information on hundreds of varieties of both woody plants and herbaceous perennials.

www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Alpha.asp 
Missouri Botanical Garden website with lots of good information on hundreds of plants grown in a climate very much like our own.

www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/bloom.asp 
Find out when a particular plant will bloom on this Missouri Botanical Garden website. Their bloom times are very close to our own in Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky. 

 www.cincyzoo.org/Exhibits/GardenBest/DeerSurvey/deersurvey.html
Carefully researched list of plants deer avoid as well as those they prefer. From the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.