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On the Web for the Holidays at White River Gardens

By Mary Welch-Keesey, Purdue University Consumer Horticulture Specialist, at White River Gardens

Holiday Plants

Christmas trees

• Learn about the tree species used as Christmas trees: http://www.splusnet.com/~carlson/hist_chr.htm and http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treetypes.html
• Need to know which tree you have? Use this key: http://www.bbg.org/gardening/christmas/index.html
• Locations of Christmas tree farms? Look here: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treefarms.html

The making of a Christmas tree

• All about Christmas tree farms: http://www.christmastrees.on.ca/vtfsite/vtfmain.html
• It all starts with a seed--growing a Christmas tree: http://www.willeyschristmastrees.com/seedharv.htm

Caring for your tree

• Living Christmas trees: http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/HO/HO-211.pdf
• Caring for a cut tree: http://www.bugwood.caes.uga.edu/christmas/97007c.html
• Holiday safety: http://www.realchristmastrees.org/001020_safety.html

Other holiday plants

• Holiday plants: http://members.aol.com/arbexhibit/holiex.htm
• Flowers and greenery, a list of links: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/flowersgreen.html
• Holiday greens: http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/HO/HO-22.pdf
• Sacred plants of the Winter Solstice: http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/YulePlants.html

Also for the Holidays

Christmas traditions

• Around the World: http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm
• Christmas traditions: http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19971201/ARTICLES/ADVTRAD1.HTM
• Explaining Christmas traditions to "Gorg the extraterrestrial": http://www.howstuffworks.com/Christmas.htm
• Chronological history of the Christmas tree: http://people.delphi.com/mariachristm/trees.html
• American Christmas decade by decade: http://hoover.nara.gov/gallery/x-mas-intro.html
• Recipes: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/recipes.html

Hanukkah traditions

• History and customs: http://www.vjholidays.com/chanukah/
• Jewish holidays &endash; a list of links: http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/jewish.htm
• History, music, crafts and recipes: http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/

Kwanzaa traditions

• The official site: http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/
• Symbols, a Swahili dictionary and video clips: http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/whatis.html
• Everything about Kwanzaa: http://www.tike.com/celeb-kw.htm

Kids activities

All holidays:

• http://www.cass.net/~rainiew/sarahbear/bigc4/colorbig.htm
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/fun.htm

Christmas:

• http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treefun.html
• http://www.realchristmastrees.org/kids.html

Hanukkah:

• http://vjholidays.com/chanukah/kids.htm
• http://www2.priscilla.com/priscilla/hanukkah/home1.html
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/hanukkah/hanukkah.htm

Kwanzaa:

• http://members.dca.net/areid/oware.htm
• http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/kwanzaa/
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/kwanzaa/kwanzaa.htm

Last updated: 6 April, 2006
For questions on this article, please contact Mary Welch-Keesey (mwelch@indyzoo.com).
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