I'll be the first to say that I am not a gardener. I thought Peonies was a misspelling of ponies and I can kill a common cactus in two weeks.

That having been stated, I know that many of my readers have green thumbs and want to know where to go on the Internet to find good gardening material.

I recommend that you start at Garden Escape, the magazine that looks quite a bit like a catalog and has the prices for everything to prove it.

In addition to reading excerpts and archives from their magazine, you can check into departments like bulbs, fruits and nuts, roses, seeds, irrigation or one of the other 25 major topic headings.

Each topic gives an incredible amount of information and covers the smallest details.

Claiming to be "the world's largest horticulture database" the Plant Finder search allows you to find the perfect plant by selecting up to 19 different criteria.

Since I want easy, but quick results, I searched for bulbs (so I can just dig a hole and toss it in) that grow well in my planting zone, have to be planted only once (perennials), can be planted now but will bloom by summer, and, of course, require only "minimal care needed."

Believe it or not, I found four varieties of Lilies and four other low-maintainence plants that met my needs. The Rain Lily (Zephyranthes var. "Citrina Yellow") looks like what I want, grows in rock gardens and costs only $.83 a bulb if I buy it from them on their secure online ordering system.

Most plants show pictures and every plant has detailed plant information such as Plant Type, Soil Moisture, Blooming Time, Attributes (like fragrant, humming bird attracting or deer resistant) and much more.

Another nice section of Garden Escape is the Garden Planner.

It takes about one minute to load up on your browser, but is well worth the wait. Once loaded, you get a basic grid structure and some plants to select. You pick up the plants and set them on the grid where you want them.

Each plant has the same information you found in the Plant Finder database and can be added to the cute little wheelbarrow (instead of the traditional shopping cart) for online transactions.

You can select from fifteen different Garden Templates and see what their "award-winning" designers have created for a Perennial Cottage Garden, Heirloom Vegetable Garden or Sunny Border.

Of course, you get a list of the plants needed plus all the prices.

Other major sites I found for gardening included: Gardening.Com which has an incredible "Ortho Problem Solver" for figuring what to do for pests or disease, GardenWeb with tours of Gardens of the World, The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book for the more technical-minded horticulturist, and Flowerweb, created in conjunction with the Flower Council of Holland.

While Garden Escape and the other sites can't keep you from killing your plants, it can tell you what you have been doing wrong and how to you were supposed to treat your lilies.