As a member and Past President of the Harris County (Texas)Master Gardener Association, I dedicate this garden page to the Master Gardener Program and the many Master Gardener Associations throughout the United States and Canada. Master Gardening is an outreach of the various State Agricultural Extension Services and is created as a volunteer program for these agencies. For more information about this program go to "My Master Gardener Page".

I don't want to mislead anyone - all of the pictures are not from my own garden - although some are. Except for the border graphics all of the pictures are of gardens that I have visited and are photos that I have taken. Information about the pictures and borders are shown at the bottom of each page.

"My Garden" has grown over time and has now gotten almost too large to load as one page - it just takes too long - so I've divided it. Its still all there but you will have to follow the arrows or the buttons. I hope the greater speed in loading will make up for the other inconveniences.

WARNING!! I may have a few bugs on these pages so watch your step!

Hey! Don't take this seriously. A while ago a lady e-mailed me and told me that when she got to this part of the page, her computer hung up and she wanted to know why I wanted to spread viruses (bugs) on the Net. Really, all of my "bugs" are graphical.

My own organization, Harris Country Master Gardener Association, puts out a pretty good newsletter "Urban Dirt" on a bimonthly basis. In addition to Association news, each issue is chock-full of good gardening tips and articles. I've developed a page for Harris County Master Gardener Association and you might like to take a look at it. You can find several issues of "Urban Dirt" included.

I've received email from many of you asking gardening questions. I love to get the mail and I try to give some kind of answer - but .... you know I'm down here in the south part of Texas and when you ask me what time you do certain things and you don't let me know what part of this world you live in .... Well, when I trim my roses, yours may be under 3 feet of snow. Besides, I like to know what part of the world you live in.

Not to be putting anyone off, but the best source of agricultural or horticultural information for those of you who live in any of the 50 states is right in your own back yard - your local County Extension Agent. Every state has an Agricultural Extension Service and every county has at least one agent who probably knows more about the agriculture and horticulture of his county than anyone else. The next best source is your local nursery.

For those interested in gardening or any other phase of Horticulture, the Internet is a vast library of information - books, magazines, articles, images, institutions of higher education, ad infinitum. Rather than attempting to ferret out each individual site, I have put together a beginning list of sources of links to these individual sites. Since Web sites are being added at an amazing rate - this list will change from time to time.

The banner photograph on this page was taken in the Beaumont, Texas Botanical Gardens in March of 1999

All banner scenes, on this and all other pages of "My Garden"were photographed, digitally processed and copyrighted by Tom H. Robb, Jr. The border graphics on this page and all others in "My Garden", unless otherwise indicated are the product of Pat's Web Graphics whose logo appears here. Click on it to go to a wonderful graphics site.

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