When I am looking up stuff I end up here a lot. They have a lot of herb and plant stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_plant

Here is a link that might be useful: Wikipedia

OOOOhhhhh, I like this.

One of my favorite sites to order gardening and butterfly books from is Abe Books (www.abebooks.com). They have a lot of rare and out of print books for very low prices.

I like Dave's Garden, too. One of their best features is their watchdog list for online nurseries, which they rate and post comments from people who have used them.

For identification and lists of host plants for butterflies, I love the Dallas County Lepidopterist's Society (www.dallasbutterflies.com).

I use the USDA website for native plants at www.plants.usda.gov for ID of natives, and it provides a lot of info on whether certain natives are invasive, photo IDs, growth habits, geographical location of natives, etc.

Since Oklahoma doesn't have that many native plant nurseries, and the one I frequent only attends farmer's markets (Wild Things), I have ordered from Mail Order Natives in Florida, Shady Oaks Butterfly Farm in Florida, Woodlanders in South Carolina, and Pine Ridge Gardens in London, Arkansas. A lot of times, I have to get host plants from these places that I cannot find locally. Pine Ridge has higher S&H costs, but Mail Order Natives and Woodlanders shipping is less expensive because they send a lot of their plants bare root. Bare root plants are always less costly thru the mail. Since then, I have discovered that Steve Buscani in Oklahoma has "some" native plants available for online ordering, and I will probably use him as well in the future.

MOBOT (Missouri Botanical Gardens) also has an extensive library of native plants and I frequently visit them for information.

Noble Foundation in Oklahoma also has a good list of natives, but it is not as user friendly to "search" unless you know what you're looking for.

For seeds, I use Prairie Moon Nursery a lot (natives; they sell some plants at reasonable prices, too); J.L. Hudson; Pinetree; Seedman.

Susan

I like Wikipedia, too. I recently was sent some Quince Cydonia seed and they had a great write up on Wikipedia about the history of this tree.

Another place I like is Freetreesandplants.com. Nurseries and florists donate plants to them, it is a workshop for people with mental disabilities in Lincoln, NE. They sell the plants via the website and only charge a $7.50 shipping and handling fee for what is usually two of the same plant. I've ordered several things this year. If you order soon enough in the summer they will ship in the fall. Otherwise they ship in the spring. I got two nice Nanking cherry bushes from them last year, they arrived bare root and they've been doing just great where I planted them.

There are so many that I hardly know where to start.

For organic info, Dirtdoctor.com.

For regional horticultural info, Neilsperry.com.

For crape myrtle info on variety selection/growing: crapemyrtletrails.org.

To track the purple martin migration in spring: purplemartin.org.

For monarch butterfly info/migration tracking: monarchwatch.org.

For wildflower seeds, wildseedfarms.org.

For Oklahoma weather info, a wealth of info can be found at the Oklahoma Mesonet, mesonet.org.

For Oklahoma climate info, there's the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, at http://climate.ok.gov.

I use the Sam Roberts Noble foundation at noble.org for Oklahoma-specific agricultural and horticultural info. They have lots of stuff, but sometimes you really have to search for it. They're the best source for info on growing strawberries here using plasticulture, and have done a lot of research with "homemade" hoophouses.

To track the hummingbird migration in spring: hummingbirds.net.

For OSU fact sheets on all kinds of agricultural and horticultural topics: http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-297. This takes you to the beginning of the index pages.

A quick link to several tomato problem solver websites is to go to Tomato Pest and Disease Forum here at Garden Web, and search for Tomato Problem Solver 2 and search the resources linked there.

For Texas A&M University's extensive veggie question and answer website, go to: htp://plantanswers.tamu.edu/vegetables/veg.html.

I order seeds from quite a few websites. Someone already mentioned rareseeds.com which is the website for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and it is my favorite source for many heirloom vegetables.

Sandhill Preservation Center is a great source not only for heirloom seeds, but also heirloom poultry, and they have the best prices on seeds that I've ever seen.
Seed Savers Exchange is great and anyone interested can buy from their public catalog, but the best thing is to buy an annual membership which gives you access to the many thousands of seeds their members save and perpetuate.
Other favorite seed sources include Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Harris Seed (for some tomatoes they developed that are only available through them), Victory Seed (the BEST info avail. on the heirloom seeds they carry and high-quality seeds and packaging), and--for heirloom flowers of all kinds--Select Seed.

I like allrecipes.com but also use recipezaar.com too.

For "freebies" there are the many Freecycle sites across the country. To find the one nearest you, go to freecycle.org us. Membership is free and members can post messages about stuff they want to give away to someone who'll use it (better than sending stuff to the landfill!) and also members can post messages about stuff they are looking for. NO SELLING allowed, only free stuff. I believe there is a related Cheapskate organization to.

For used merchandise, DS uses Craigslist. Find the Craigslist nearest you at Craigslist.org. Just this year, DA has found great buys: a fishing boat, a boat motor, a 125 gallon aquarium and a refrigerator. The refrigerator, for example, was in great condition and was only $50.

For books, especially used books, I use Amazon.com but also use Half.com, which is where Kristine just bought books for the upcoming fall semester for $140 instead of spending $500 at the college campus bookstore.

Every major retailer in the USA has a website and I shop at a lot of them, but I usually restrict myself only to the "Outlet" section of the website because the prices there are so much better even than sale prices. I also look online for coupon codes to get further discounts and free shipping. I just google the retailer name and words coupon codes because there are tons of coupon code websites.

And, because it is always cool to find a cheaper way to feed our gardening habit, I love the ideas you can find at Garden Web's Frugal Gardening forum.

I use DG's Garden Watchdog as well.

For organic supplies I use a lot of different sites, including Planet Natural, Arbico (beneficial insects) and Worm's Way among others.

When DS was younger and I was doing a lot of room mother type stuff, carnival type stuff and Cub Scout den leader type stuff, I always shopped at Oriental Trading Company (Orientaltrading.com) for theme merchandise, novelties, art and craft supplies, holiday decorations, etc. AND, if you're planning a wedding, they even have oodles and oodles of wedding favors, supplies, decorations, etc.

That's all I can think of at this moment, but I can always post more later.

Dawn

I can't believe I forgot Monarch Watch. However, IMHO, the best website for all migrations, including the Monarchs, is Journey North (Monarchs, hummers, whooping cranes, whales, etc.). It is great! And you can sign up for e-mail updates, too!

Susan

Here is a link that might be useful: Journey North

How about something pretty to look at (if you aren't inclined to grow them)?

Here is a link that might be useful: Just our pictures

It's not really a website, but if you haven't already, you should download Google Earth. It's a free application that basically consists of satellite images of the Earth, and you can zoom in and see some pretty detailed shots of the Earth's surface. The images are probably 3-4 years old. In the metro areas the imagry is particularly detailed. No kidding: I could not only identify the building I used to live in before I moved here, but I could see my car in the parking lot! It's also cool to zoom into places like the Amazon rain forest and see how all the tributaries meander throughout the jungle. You can unfortunatly also see the huge swaths of rain forest that have been slashed and burned...very depressing, but very amazing to see from outer space. One warning: the newer version of this program requires a higher quality video card, so it may not work on older computers. My home PC is a 2001 (yes) and my video card will not run it.

GM