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  • Home
  • About
    • COVID-19 Resources
  • Youth Lessons
    • Project S.O.W.
    • Gardening in Our Warming World: Youth Grow!
    • Dig Art!
    • Seed to Salad
    • Curriculum Classics
    • Short Activities
    • Citizen Science- Youth
    • Educator Planning Tools
  • Adult Programs
    • Resilient Gardens Conference- Geneva, NY
    • Seed to Supper
    • Vegetable Variety Trial Gardens
    • Food Forest Trial Gardens
    • Sustainable Landscape – Horticulture Program Work Team
    • Citizen Science- Adults
  • Extension Master Gardeners
    • Current Master Gardener Volunteers
    • Master Gardener Volunteer CCE Staff
  • Garden Guidance
    • Troubleshooting
    • Food Gardening
    • Lawns & Landscapes
    • Pollinator Protection
    • Composting
    • Healthy Soil
    • Ecological Gardening
    • Gardening in a Warming World
    • Invasive Plants & Pests
    • Site Design
    • NY County Extension Gardening Resources
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Lawns & Landscapes

Lawns
Trees and Shrubs
Annual and Perennial Flowers

Lawns
  • Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset
  • Lawn Care ebook 2016
    Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset
  • Turfgrass and Landscape Weed ID

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Trees and Shrubs
  • Urban Horticulture Institute  Resources for assessing sites, choosing trees, transplanting
  • Woody Plant Database
  • ForestConnect  Resources for sustainable production and ecological function on private woodlands
  • Guide to Identifying Viburnums

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Annual and Perennial Flowers
Plants that Deer Do Not Like to Eat (pdf)

Flower Growing Guides
Herbaceous Perennials Database
Annual Flower Research
Flower Bulb Research Program
Weed Suppressive Ground Covers Brochure (pdf)

Cornell Classics:
Sequence of Bloom (pdf)
Ornamental Grasses for Garden (pdf)
Rock Garden (pdf)

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Pat Curran’s ‘Top’ Plant Lists

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Contact

Have a question on specific gardening programs in your community? Find your local Cornell Cooperative Extension Office.

Not from New York? Find your state’s extension office here.

Questions about Cornell Garden-Based Learning Program?

Ashley Helmholdt
Extension Associate
Cornell Garden-Based Learning
alm443@cornell.edu

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  • Horticulture Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS)
  • College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS)
  • Cornell University

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