Gardenology.org is a wiki

Wiki

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, launched in 2007, meant to serve as a free

Free content

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, "complete plant and garden wiki encyclopedia." There are over 19,000 articles on the site, and a plant search box. Gardenology.org is a "reference database with botany

Botany

Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...

 basics, cultivation, propagation

Plant propagation

Plant propagation is the process of creating new plants from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings, bulbs and other plant parts. Plant propagation can also refer to the artificial or natural dispersal of plants.-Sexual propagation :...

, plant maintenance, glossary of botanical names and glossary of gardening terms".

The site runs on MediaWiki

MediaWiki

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 as well as the Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki

Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki...

 extension.

Gardenology.org uses the Creative Commons

Creative Commons

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Attribution ShareAlike license for its content. Articles can cover an individual species or cultivar, a family, a gardening term or gardening topic. The site has message forums for gardening-related discussions.

Milestones

• May 10, 2009 — 5,000 articles
• August 9, 2009 — 10,000 articles

External links

• Gardenology.org (Home Page)