To start your learning experience, you could try the following website :
http://plantsdatabase.com I have found it helpful at times ! Ben.

"Marconius" wrote in message
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I'm relatively new to gardening and I bought a few plants to put in
some planters the other day. I don't know much about them and would
like to look them up. Can anyone refer to me to an "encyclopedia" type
website or something that can give me adecent amount of background on
them?
Thanks