Resources

We have over thirty-five years of horticultural experience and can also help answer many general gardening questions. Please feel free to contact us at 952-443-2248 or 877-211-9769. Please leave a message if we are not available. During the growing season, e-mail is perhaps the best way to make an initial contact with our staff. We are located very near the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and a visit to our nursery location would be a perfect complement to your next visit there. Staff at both locations can offer you much helpful advice.

As you are undoubtedly aware, the Internet is loaded with plant information, some good and some bad. To help you in researching additional perennial data, we recommend the following sites for their accurate and relevant information.

American Clematis Society (www.clematis.org)
American Daffodil Society (www.daffodilusa.org)
American Fern Society (www.amerfernsoc.org)
American Hemerocallis Society (www.dayliles.org)
American Hemerocallis Society Region 1 (www.northerndaylily.com)
American Horticultural Society (www.ahs.org)
American Hosta Society (www.hosta.org)
American Iris Society (www.irises.org)
American Iris Society Region 8 (www.aisregion8.org)
American Peony Society (www.americanpeonysociety.org)
American Primrose Society (www.americanprimrosesociety.org)
Chicago Botanic Garden (www.chicagobotanic.org)
Daffodil Data Base (www.daffseek.org)
Daffodil Society of Minnesota (www.daffodilmn.org)
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden (http://minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=4&parkid=340)
Florifacts (www.florifacts.umn.edu)
Garden Minnesota (www.gardenminnesota.com)
Garden Web (www.gardenweb.com)
Gay Gardener (www.gaygardener.com)
Hosta Image Data Base (www.hostalibrary.org)
Iris Society of Minnesota (www.irismn.org)
Is this plant a weed? (www.extension.umn.edu/gardeninfo/weedid/index.html)
Landscape Plant Development Center (http://www.landscapecenter.org/11)
Median Iris Society (www.medianiris.com)
Midwest Regional Hosta Society (www.midwesthostasociety.org)
Minnesota Chapter North American Rock Garden Society
(www.nargs.org/meet/chap_mn)
Minnesota Extension Service (www.extension.umn.edu)
Minnesota Grown (www.mda.state.mn.us/food/minnesotagrown)
Minnesota Hosta Society (www.mnhosta.org)
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (www.arboretum.umn.edu)
Minnesota Native Plant Society (www.mnnps.org)
Minnesota Peony Society (www.mnpeony.org)
Minnesota State Horticultural Society (www.northerngardener.org)
Minnesota State Master Gardener Program (http://www.mg.umn.edu)
My Northern Garden Blog (www.mynortherngarden.com)
National Chrysanthemum Society (www.mums.org)
North American Lily Society (www.lilies.org)
North American Rock Garden Society (www.nargs.org)
North Star Lily Society (www.northstarlilysociety.com)
Ornamental Grass Society of Minnesota (www.ornamentalgrasssociety.org)
Perry's Perennial Pages (www.uvm.edu/"pass/perry/)
Plant Information Online (www.plantinfo.umn.edu)
Rain Garden Information (www.bluethumb.org)
Rain Garden Information (www.learning store.uwex.edu)
Renegade Gardener (www.renegadegardener.com)
Royal Horticultural Society (www.rhs.org.uk)
Society for Siberian Irises (www.socsib.org)
Soil Testing Information (www.soiltest.cfans,umn.edu/index.htm)
Spuria Iris Society (www.spuriairis.org)
Sustainable Landscapes (www.ag.udel.edu/udbg/sl)
Sustainable Urban Landscape Information (www.sustland.umn.edu)
The Epimedium Page (home.earthlink.net/"darrellpro/)
The Gifted Gardener (www.pamthegiftedgardener.com)
The Hardy Fern Foundation (www.hardyferns.org)
Three Rivers Park District/Noerenberg Gardens
(www.threeriversparkdistrict.org)
U.S.D.A. Hardiness Zone Map (www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html?)
University of Minnesota Gardening Info(http://www.extension.umn.edu/gardeninfo)
What is wrong with my plant? (http://www.extension.umn.edu/gardeninfo/diagnostics/index.html)
What insect is this? (http://www.extension.umn.edu/gardeninfo/insectgallery/index.html)
Wild Ones (www.for-wild.org)
Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society
(www.madison.com/communities/wisconsinhardyplantsociety/)

What's New at Amergate Gardens!

Penstemon
'Dark Towers' - USPP 20013
(Beard-tongue)
Courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries
Hosta
'Popcorn'
Courtesy of Shady Oaks Nursery
Allium maximowiczii
'Alba' (Ornamental Onion)
Tiarella
'Sugar and Spice' -
USPP 16738 (Foamflower)
Courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries
Schizachyrium scoparium
'MinnBlueA' Blue Heaven™ -
USPP 17310 (Little Bluestem)
Courtesy of University of MN
Echinacea purpurea
'Pink Double Delight'
Cone-fections™ - USPP 18803
(Double Purple Coneflower)