On a rainy day, playing with gardening websites instead of playing outdoors

We've had 16 days straight of measurable rain, breaking all past records for most rainy days in a row. This means that, despite May being the prime time to plant seedlings, weed, etc., I've spent most of that time indoors.

While it's enjoyable to look on the misty and verdant scene outside my window, my gaze is not without wistful longing. The seedlings I've carefully nurtured under a grow light in the basement need to be transplanted--now. But I worry they might not survive a heavy deluge, and the rain is supposed to continue at least another three days. (Unfortunately, the organic basil plants I bought a couple of weeks ago have been damaged by an onslaught last week of hailstones as big as large pebbles, and haven't been able to recover in the sunless dampness. Other plants also look equally lethargic and waterlogged).

So this is a good time to look at landscaping and gardening websites and Pinterest pages. Here are a few of my go-to places, along with others I'm listing for my own future edification.

• For landscaping tips and garden plans, one of the first places I check is Better Homes and Gardens' landscaping pages: http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plans/ (I often find pertinent pages there by first using Google search for a particular topic, or via pinned pages in Pinterest).

• It's easy to get lost in Pinterest, especially if you start pinning all things related to your current garden wish list. Fortunately, it has become easy to find specific and related topics using the Google search engine. For example, here is what Pinterest sent me to when I googled "circular driveway landscaping": https://www.pinterest.com/explore/circle-driveway-landscaping/

• Fine Gardening magazine and finegardening.com are like porn for plant lovers. An especially useful tool on its website is the Plant Guide.

Here are other websites I've bookmarked to check out later:

• Gardens Illustrated 

• Garden Design

• Mother Earth News (not advice I can use all that much, given my shady yard, which won't allow me to grow much in the way of food crops)

• About.com's Gardening page