Gardening Resources

Online Resources & Apps

What should I Plant?

If you are thinking of planting in your garden in Chautauqua, we recommend you look at our own web app, ExploreChq. There you can scroll through plant lists and look at photos of what is planted in the gardens of Chautauqua. It's the perfect resource! And download Betsy's List of Unicorn Plants.

Insect Indentification:

• Bugguide.net

• Earthbox Insect Identifier

Plant Disease Indentification:  

• What’s Wrong with My Plant from University of Minnesota

Native Plant Information:

• Native Plant Selection

• Native Plant Hand-out from NY DEC

• Alternatives to Invasive Plant Species

• Regional Native Plant “Starter” List

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Recommended Native Plant List for NY

Rain Gardens & Shoreline Buffer Gardens:

• Blue Thumb Planting for Clean Water

• Native Plants for New England Rain Gardens Hand-out

• A How-to Manual for Homeowners from the University of Wisconsin

General Gardening Info:

• Interactive Hardiness Zone Map from the USDA

• General Gardening info, definitions/cost savings
  (This excellent link was a gift from Mrs C’s High School Club - we’re so grateful for these ‘Citizen Scientists'!)

• Topiaries -

PDFs We Love 

• Betsy's Unicorn Plants

  • This is a list of Betsy Burgeson's "Go-To" plants for Chautauqua gardens—beautiful, long-bloomers that are hardy and mostly native.

• ​NY DEC Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Fact Sheet

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BTG Recommended 
Nearby Attractions 

(within 2 hours of Chautauqua Institution)

• Holden Arboretum (Kirtland, OH)

• Cleveland Botanical Garden (Cleveland, OH)

• Tom Ridge Environmental Center (Erie, PA)

• Asbury Woods Nature Center (Erie, PA)

• Roger Tory Peterson Institute (Jamestown, NY)

• Buffalo Botanical Gardens (Buffalo, NY)

• Audubon Community Nature Center (Frewsburg, NY)

• Panama Rocks Scenic Park (Panama, NY)

• Nannen Arboretum (Ellicotville, NY)

• Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park (Erie, PA)

Gardens of Chautauqua Map of the Grounds

• BTG Garden Map and Garden Description