ONLINEPLANTGUIDE.com is a FREE information source which showcases materials authored, gathered, and cataloged by Thomas Pope, Ph.D. and Neil Odenwald, Ph.D. over their extensive careers, over a century of collective experience in horticulture and landscape architecture. This site includes information on more than 3,500 species more being added all the time and over 12,000 digital images of those plants.  Information includes common and scientific names as well as climate zones, height, spread, flowering seasons, flower colors, fruits, sun light requirements, water requirements, soil types and more.  A powerful search tool allows you to search through the plant database quickly and easily to find information and pictures.

Thomas Pope, Ph.D., specialist, Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, Louisiana State University, has more than forty garden publications to his credit in thirty-two years of academic work at the University of Kentucky, Universityof Florida, and LSU.  He has also written for Southern Living and Louisiana Conservationist and done television programs on gardening subjects for more than twelve years. He is the senior author of Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens.

Neil Odenwald, Ph.D., ASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana StateUniversity.   The author of Live Oak Splendor: Gardens along the Mississippi, from Natchez to New Orleans and the award-winning Southern Plants, he has also served as a consultant for Time-Life gardening books.  He is an enthusiastic speaker and an honored member of the National Council of State Garden Clubs.