Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Gardening

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries - Has a list of Member Libraries. There is a list of winners of the Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature. Also provides access to the CBHL Newsletter:

No. 108 - February 2008

No. 107 November 2007

Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks - Plant awards program for Pacific Northwest gardens.

Fleuroselect - International organisation for the ornamental plants industry. There are annual Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winners and Quality Awards.

International Herb Association

Herb of the Year

New England Wildflower Society: Awards Given by the Society For Outstanding Achievement

Perennial Plant Association

Perennial Plant of the Year

Databases

Acta Horticulturae - "Complete and accurate record of all Acta Horticulturae titles with more than 27,000 full text articles and abstracts." (International Society for Horticultural Science.)

Agricola - National Agricultural Library Article Citation Database

Andean Botanical Information System - Provides "collection information from the floristic and systematic investigations of the phanerogams (flowering plants) of Andean South America. ABIS is developing a networked database of specimen-label data for selected groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru, and monographic treatments with online images."

Atlas of the Flora of New England - Ray Angelo and David E. Boufford, Harvard University Herbaria.

Biocomplexity Thesaurus - Try searching for moss

Botanical Collectors Database

Botanical Image Database - University of Basel

Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System

Carnivorous Plant Database - Rick Walker, HP Labs, Palo Alto

Catalogue of Life Annual Checklist

Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics: Botanical Databases - The Medicinal Plants of North America Database (MPNADB) is "based on a two-volume book of the same name published in 1986 by the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan. The database - which contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups - was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn." The Food Plant Database, based on Food Plants of the North American Indians by Elias Yanovsky, c1936, reviewed approximately 80 years of literature, back to around 1850, listing 1,112 species in 444 genera of plants among 120 families, used for food by the North American Indians.

Collections of the Nordic Herbarium - Database from the Swedish Museum of Natural History contains over 32,000 entries.

Cultivar Checklists for Ornamental Plants (2000) - Art Tucker, University of Delaware. "Updated vesion of Appendix XI, Checklists of Ornamental Cultivars, of the International Code of Nomenclatue for Cultivated Plants-1995, pp. 89-140, which in turn was taken from Arnoldia 55(4):1-59 (1994-1995)." This 90 page checklist (Acer to Zinnia ) is helpful for authenticating plants purchased from nurseries.The Literature Cited section begins on p. 34.

Ecological Flora of the British Isles

Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium

Families of Flowering Plants - Description, illustrations, identification of families of flowering plants by L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz

Flora of California - By Willis Linn Jepson. With index.

Flora of North America - Collaborative project of over 800 botanists and 30 institutions in the US and Canada "to provide authoritative, up-to-date information on the names, relationships, characteristics, and distributions of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico."

FloraWeb - Service of the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation). In German only. Click on (1)Datenservice, (2) Information und Fotos zu Pflanzenarten (3) search for viola.

Flowering Plant Gateway - Texas A&M University Bioinformatics Working Group provides "various paths for exploration or comparison of three major systems of flowering plant classification."

Flowerweb - Dutch site offers Flowerbase, a database offering over 10,000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants.

Garden-cult - Garden database (Freitext-Datenbank) developed by Uwe Schneider and Gert Groning. "Allows access to bibliographical information for articles which have been published in the field of garden culture and open space development in professional journals between 1887 and 1945 in Germany." Has over 52, 000 annotated entries. The search page has an English interface, but the results are in German.

Gartendatenbank

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Global Invasive Species Database - "Developed by the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) as part of the global initiative on invasive species led by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). It provides global information on invasive alien species to agencies, resource managers, decision-makers, and interested individuals."

GRIN Taxonomy - National Genetic Resources Program. A simple search for kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L) provides the Genus (Hibiscus), Family (Malvaceae), common names (bastard-jute, bimli-jute, Deccan-hemp, Indian-hemp, Java-jute, mesta, chanvre de Bombay, Ambari, Dekkanhanf and Gambohanf) and seed sources.

Herbarium Specimen Catalog - New York Botanical Garden

Index Herbariorum - Detailed directory of over 3000 public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members associated with them. Joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the New York Botanical Garden. Information available for searching includes addresses of herbaria, names of those to write to for use of the collections via loans or visits, names of staff members associated with herbaria, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and URL addresses, and research specialties.

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) - U.S. National Herbarium, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution.

Index to American Botanical Literature - New York Botanical Garden

Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium Project Database - University of Maryland at College Park

International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - With Project list. Of note is the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St. Louis Code) which has an Index of Scientific Names and a Subject Index.

International Plant Name Index - "Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community."

John Clayton Herbarium - Natural History Museum, London.

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources - Has a Red List of Threatened Species

Kew Herbarium Catalogue - "The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew houses approximately 7 million specimens, collected from all around the world. Specimens are either pressed and dried or preserved in spirit. Kew is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we are building an electronic Herbarium Catalogue containing images of the specimens and information taken from their collection labels."

Kew Bibliographic Databases

Kew electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC)

Linnean herbarium - Over 2,000 images from the Department of Phanerogamic Botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Medicinal and Poisonous Plant Databases - Collection of links related to medicinal and poisonous plants assembled by clinical herbalist Michael C. Tims

Mints of Texas - University of Texas at Austin Plant Resources Center Herbarium.

Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera (NCU-3e) - International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

National Agricultural Library - United States Department of Agriculture. The NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) provides citations to agricultural literature.

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland

Native American Ethnobotany Database: Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples - Dan Moerman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. "The current edition of the database is substantially enlarged and including foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants (a total of over 44,000 items). This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families."

Natural History Museum Botany Department Database Page - London. The Sir James Sloane Jamacian Botanical Collection has plant specimens from Sloane's Voyage to Jamaica, 1687-1689. The Paul Hermann Herbarium has specimens and drawings from Hermann's years in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677.

NatureServe Explorer - "An authoritative source for information on more than 65,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species."

New York Flora Atlas (NYFA) - "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State."

OAIster - "Goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources." A search for garten retrieved abstracts for over 200 records, one of which was Der botanische Garten als Ort für Umweltbildung: gartenpädagogische Konzeption unter besonderer Berücksichtigung formenkundlicher Inhalte by Marina Fischbeck-Eysholdt, a 408 page thesis in pdf format, in German, on the botanical garden (Botanische Gärten). There is a map showing locations of German botanical gardens on page 2 (10). Try searching for
French: jardin(s), jardinage(s), jardinier(s), fleur(s), fleuriste(s), plante(s) medicinale(s), labyrinthe(s), orangerie(s), plan(s), carte(s), dessin(s)
German: garten(s), landesgeschichte, landschaftsgarten, gartenkunst, schloss, grotten
Italian: giardino, giardini, flora, orto botanico, orti botanici, laberinti, labirinti, labyrinthos, grotte, grotta
Latin: hortus, hortorum,

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Analyses and scientific abstacts for thousands of plants assembled by James A. Duke, an ethnobotanist at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. For example, there is a list of Species used for Diabetes.

Plant Kaleidoscope - "Rare & unusual plants" in cultivation in Europe, growing in public or private gardens." Consists of 707 pictures and 349 descriptions of "woody plants like trees, shrubs , conifers, climbers, bamboos and palms."The "people involved" are Rainer Oberle, Ulrich Herzog, Frédéric Tournay, Hubertus Nimsch and Diethard H. Storch.

Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database - Online version of the book published by CAB International.

PlantCare.com - House plant database has over 2,900 listings with care information and photos, searchable by name and by type.

PlantFacts - Searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural fact sheets produced by Tim Rhodus of Ohio State University. Also offers Plant Dictionary, a searchable database of 3,431 high quality plant, insect and disease images.

Plants for A Future Species Database (PFAF) - Contains over 7000 species and has extensive details on edible, medicinal and other uses of plants together with information about their cultivation and habitats.

Plants Database - Contains 2,547 plants and 2,865 photos. (Part of Dave's Garden.)

Plants National Database - U. S. Department of Agriculture database "provides standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information." There is a list of topics It's a good place to look for the following information: identifying characteristics of plants, threatened and endangered plants, geographical distribution of plants, culturally significant plants, plant guides and fact sheets, invasive plants, and a plant image gallery.

Plantscope - Dutch image database. You can search by color.

Postcode Plants Database - The goal of this UK database is to encourgage gardeners to grow indigenous plants. Input your postcode and you're shown a list of recommended plants.

Protabase - Database of useful plants of tropical Africa.

Regnellian herbarium - Collection of plants from South and Central America and the Caribbean at the Swedish Museum of Natural History has a Botanical type collection database.

Search the Living Collections of Multiple Botanical Institutions

Species in Parks: Flora and Fauna Database Online Query System - Databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal species reported to occur within lands managed by the U.S. National Park Service.

SPIRO: Architectural Images Database - UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library. A search for garden in the Subject or Object Type field retrieved 771 records.

Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland - Biota of North America Program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley

University of Connecticut Plant Database of Trees, Shrubs and Vines

Vascular Plant Type Catalog - New York Botanical Garden

Den Virtuella Floran - Swedish Museum of Natural History (in Swedish only)

English Gardens

Alnwick Garden - Alnwick, Northumberland

Association of Gardens Trusts

Barnsley House Gardens

BBC Gardening - See also Gardener's Corner

Bodnant Garden - Conwy, North Wales. (See also National Trust description.)

British Tourist Authority

Christopher Smallwood Architects - See Country Houses

Cotswold District Council

Cotswold Way National Trail - Ramblers' Association 101 mile walking trail from Chipping Campden to Bath. (See the Countryside Agency website for information on other National Trails.)

English Heritage

English Tourism Council

Garden History Society - Has a Cumulative Index 1966-2000

Gardens Guide - UK garden directory. (Use the GardenFinder, to locate Syon Park, Biddulph Grange Garden and Newby Hall & Gardens.)

Gloucestershire Tourism

Great Dixter - Family home of Christopher Lloyd Hidcote Manor - National Trust garden located near Chipping Campden, Glouscester, England. Created by Lawrence Waterbury Johnson (1871-1958). See The Enigma of Hidcote by Christopher Reed, Horticulture Magazine, August 1986. "If you were to see it from the air," says Paul Nicholls, Hidcote's head gardener, 'the garden would look like a house with the roof off.' The walls are built of yew, beech, box, holly, and hornbeam, sometimes daringly mixed together to create Johnston's famous 'tapestry hedges' ". (Do a satellite search in Google Maps for Hidcote Bartrim.) Hidcote Manor Garden: the hidden truth by Noel Kingsbury, Telegraph, October 8, 2007. Books about Hidcote and Johnston include Hidcote : the garden and Lawrence Johnston (2007) by Graham S. Pearson and The Garden at Hidcote (2007) by Fred Whitsey (you can search inside this book at Amazon.com).

Historic Gardens Foundation

Iford Manor - Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. See Architect of a Lovely Garden: At Iford Manor, Harold Peto Built a Landscape of Memories by Jane Garmey, Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2008 and The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto: From the Archives of Country Life (2007) by Robin Whalley.

Information on UK Gardens

Kiftsgate Court Gardens

Landmark Trust

Landscape Design Trust

Mottisford Abbey Gardens - Romsey, Hampshire, UK

Museum of Garden History

National Council for Conservation of Plants and Gardens

National Gardens Scheme

National Trust - Has information on many gardens including Hidcote Manor and Sissinghurst Castle

National Trust Cottages - "A unique collection of over 330 properties in outstanding locations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland."

Royal Horticultural Society - Sponsors the Chelsea Flower Show and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. There is a Garden Finder.

Scotland's Gardens Scheme

Sisley Garden Tours

Smithsonian Journeys - Offers an English Gardens and Gardeners tour.

UK Database of Historic Parks and Gardens

West Oxfordshire Tourism

Wolsey Lodges

Ethnobotany

Amazon Conservation Team - Organization directed by Mark J. Plotkin, author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest (the subject of Amazon, a documentary by Kieth Merrill and Jonathan Stern that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998) and Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage - Henriette Kress's site on culinary and medicinal herbs includes 3290 plant pictures.

Liber Herbarum - Erik Gotfredsen's database is subtitled "the incomplete reference-guide to Herbal medicine" and is based on the first known Danish medicine book, Henrik Harpestreng's Liber Herbarum. The entry for Drosera rotundifolia Linne or Round-leaved Sundew, for example, provides the common name of the plant in 12 languages.

Medline Search for Herbal Medicine - Article citations within last 90 days. Also try Ethnobotany or Medicine, Traditional.

Plants for a Future

Richard E. Schultes, 86, Authority on Hallucinogenic Plants, Dies - New York Times obituary (April 13, 2001) of the man known as the founding father of ethnobotany. Richard Evans Schultes was also the subject of an article by E. J. Kahn Jr, in the June 1, 1992 New Yorker titled Profiles: Jungle Botanist (Vol. 68, issue 16, p. 35). Two million acres the Amazon are named after him - the Amazonian tract Sector Schultes.

Events

Canadian Tulip Festival - Ottawa. Held annually in May.

Charleston Garden Festival

Le festival des jardins - Chaumont-sur-Loire

GardenFair - Winterthur, Delaware. "Autumn sale of plants, tools and accoutrements for passionate gardeners."

Philadelphia Flower Show

Royal Horticultural Society Flower Shows

Full-Texts / Electronic Texts / E-Books

Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Gallica - French National Library electronic text project. A search (recherche) for jardin* (title) retrieves over 200 images and texts. Volumes of note include:

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (in Gallica 2)

- 1872 (vol. 1)-1937 (vol. 20)

Description des plantes de l'Amérique (1693) by Charles Plumier and North American sylva, or A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia (1819) in Vol. I and Vol. II.

Cornus, specimen botanicum sistens descriptiones sistens descriptiones et icones specierum corni minus cognitarum (1788) by L'Charles Louis Héritier de Brutelle.

Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.-M. Cels (1799)

Labiatarum genera et species, or A description of the genera and species of plants of the order labiatae, with their general history, characters, affinities, and geographical distribution (1832-1836) by George Bentham.

Handbook of the british flora: a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the british isles (1866) also by Bentham

The Flora of British India [in seven volumes], by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya also by Hooker

L'art de composer et décorer les jardins (1846) par Pierre Boitard.

Bilder ur Nordens Flora - Full text of 1917 work by Swedish botanist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856 - 1928). Includes descriptions and images of 526 plants and an index. In Swedish.. (Project Runeberg)

Biodiversity Heritage Library - Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. ( American Museum of Natural History, Field Museum, Harvard University Botany Libraries, Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Natural History Museum New York Botanical Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Libraries). " On 28 October 2009 the library contained: "15,078 titles, 40,248 volumes, 16,303,197 pages." You can browse by title, author, subjects, names, map, and year.

BioLib Online Library of Historic Biological Books - Kurt Stüber, of the Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, has assembled a full-text collection of historic biology books, many "currently out of print and hard to obtain from public libraries or book sellers." There are over 150 titles on botany. Titles include:

History of European botanical discoveries in China (1898) by Emil Vasilievitch Bretschneider.

Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1879) - 4 Volumes with 572 botanical plates.

Botanicus - "Feely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library." You can browse books by authors, titles and subjects which include pictorial works

Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame vogelen :benevens eenige vreemde dieren en plantgewassen by Mark Catesby, 1772-1781.

Hortus Europae americanus, or, A collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs: the produce of North America... by Mark Catesby, 1767.

La botanique de J.J. Rousseau: ornee de soixante-cinq planches, imprimees en couleurs d'apres les peintures de P.J. Redoute - 1805

Classic Herbal Texts: old books and journals - Henriette Kress.

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture - Core electronic collection of over 800 agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Examples of titles include History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 1829-1878, The trees of California (1909) by Willis Linn Jepson and Plant propagation; greenhouse and nursery practice (1916) by M. G. Kains. See also the NEH Book Collection, a collection of 599 core agricultural books from the 19th and 20th century. (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.)

Culpeper: The Complete Herbal - Complete text of the 17th century herbal, along with The British herbal and family physician by Nicholas Culpeper, (1616-1654). From Bibliomania.

Curtis Botanical Magazine is a digital collection of "one thousand fifty records, one thousand forty-eight plates, (two of the original plates are missing, plates 797 & 860), and there are one thousand four hundred fifty-six related pages of text from the first 26 volumes. The entire print collection of 164 volumes is housed at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland." Images include Heath-leaved Banksia, Honey-bearing Protea, Laurel-leaved Rhododendron and the Yellow Day-lily. An electronic publication of the National Agricultural Library Rare Book Collection.

Description Botanique du Chiranthodendron (1805) - José Dionisio Larreátegui. Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Edition, 1999. Also in the collection Observationum Botanicarum (1802) by D. Romanus Adolph Hedwig.

Digitale Bibliothek Braunschweig - Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig. Includes Botanische und zoologische Bücher.

Dunbarton Oaks Electronic Texts - Includes John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening, Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century, Perspectives on Garden Histories and Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850.

Fuch's Botanical - 516 woodcuts of plants, some colored, from Leonhard Fuch's Primi de stirpivm historia commentariorvm tomi uiuæ imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] forman contractæ, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissime expressæ...Basileæ, 1545. Site created by Richard Siderits, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Index to 18th and 19th Century Botanical Literature at Gallica (Bibliotecque Nationale de France) - Stewart R. Hinsley

Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) - Digital reproduction by the Library of Congress of ten volumes, comprising 8,400 pages and over 1,000 photographs and other illustrations, of the journal established by Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. The work is fully searchable and browsable, and each volume has an index. A Boolean search for Llewellyn, Park and Orange, for example, retrieves 13 results, among which is p. 578 of Volume 5, Issue 250. Phis provides some of the history of Llewellyn Park, one of the first planned developments or "residence parks". As early as 1853, Llewellyn S. Haskell purchased some 700 acres on the southeastern slope of Orange Mountain, in Orange, New Jersey. Figure 100, on page 583 shows a drawing of the main entrance to Llewellyn Park. Plantings of Oaks, Chestnuts, Hickories, Maples, Tulip Poplars, and Beeches enriched the park. Eugene A. Baumann & Howard Daniels were the landscape designers.

Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums - Digital Library at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, consists of over 2800 volumes, including a good collection of early travel books. You can search or browse. Among the digitized titles in the collection is Annonce d'un ouvrage botanique sur les arbres, arbustes et plantes de l'Empire de Russie, qui sera publié par ordre et sous les auspices de sa majesté impériale (1782) by Peter Simon Pallas.

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH) - "Core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950..." (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.) Garden-related titles in the collection include Flower Decoration in the House (1907) by Gertrude Jekyll, Principles of Flower Arrangement (1923) by Edward Albert White, The Livable House, its Garden (1917) by Ruth Dean and The Book of Market Gardening (1906) by R. Lewis Castle.

Köhler's Medicinal Plants - Hermann A. Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen was published in Leipzig in 1887 and has nearly 300 finely detailed illustrations (Missouri Botanical Garden)

Making of America Project - "Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877)." The site is searchable and includes a number of gardening-related titles:

The American gardener: a treatise on the situation, soil, and laying out of gardens (1854) - William Cobbett

Treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (1853) by Andrew Jackson Downing

American gardener's assistant (1866) by Thomas Bridgeman

Country life: a handbook of agriculture, horticulture, & landscape gardening (1866) by Robert Morris Copeland

Family kitchen gardener; containing plain and accurate descriptions of all the different species and varieties of culinary vegetables (1861) by Robert Buist

Farmer's guide to scientific and practical agriculture (1853) by Henry Stephens

Plain and pleasant talk about fruits, flowers and farming (1859) by Henry Ward Beecher

Parsons on the rose. A treatise on the propagation, culture, and history of the rose (1869) by Samuel B. Parsons.

A Modern Herbal Home Page - Online searchable edition of 1931 book by Mrs. M. Grieve. With Common Names Index, Recipe Index and Poisons Index.

Notions Élémentaires de Botanique - "Rare botanical work of nomenclatural importance" by Jean François Durande, a French botanist at Dijon, published in 1782. (Rare Book Collection, National Agricultural Library.)

Organic Agriculture Information Access - "Electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are almost 200 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. Access to this data is intended to provide growers with new ideas on crop production without chemicals, as well as help researchers conserve scarce resources by avoiding unintended duplication. This collection is provided by the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), a part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with funding from the USDA National Organic Program and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. This effort is part of the AFSIC "Organic Roots" project."

Plantaardigheden

Cruydt-Boeck - Herbal with over 700 images of plants, written by Belgian naturalist Rembertus Dodonaeus in 1644. See title page.

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine - Bisbee, Arizona. Includes many classic texts. (If this url doesn't work try searching ibiblio.)

Garden Writers and Blogs

Association des Journalistes du Jardin et de l'Horticulture

British Garden Writers' Guild

Garden Writers Association of America (GWAA) - Has a Speakers Bureau

The Virago Book of Women Gardeners (1996) - Edited by Deborah Kellaway. With Biographical Notes on pp. 259-271 and Notes on Sources on pp. 247-253. You can "search inside" this book at Amazon.com.

Transatlantic Plantsman - Graham Rice

Gardens and Arboretums

Royal Horticultural Society Garden Finder

Airlie gardens - Wilmington, North Carolina.

American Public Gardens Association - Searchable by state and provides address, phone & web site address (when available) of its members.

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Association Francaise des Directeurs de Jardins & Espaces Verts Publics - With links to city parks and gardens.

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Australian Botany Pages - Provides information on Australian National Botanic Gardens

Barnsley House - Garden of Rosemary Verey, who died on May 31, 2001, is located in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, UK.

Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens - Stamford, Connecticutt

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)

Botanical Garden of Nijmegen - "Extensive Solanaceae collection comprising more than 1,000 accessions with many species of wild origin." Includes many images.

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)

Botanischer Garten der Universität Basel - With high quality images of some very unusual plants (select Pflanzen (Bilder) from the sidebar)

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve - New Hope, Pennsylvania

Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum - Superior, Arizona.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Brooklyn, New York.

Butchart Gardens - Vancouver Island

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - Has information on Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Canada

Les Cedres - Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, France

Centre des Monuments Nationaux - The French Ministry of Culture and Communication provides information on French chateaux, monasteries, cathedrals, palaces, and other important monuments. (In French and in English.) The following are recommended for their "parcs et jardins".

Château d'Angers

Château de Bouges - "Une élégante demeure du 18e siècle, remarquable par son mobilier et ses jardins."

Château de Champs-sur-Marne

Château de Gramont

Château de La Motte Tilly

Château de Rambouillet

Château de Talcy

Domaine national de Saint-Cloud

Maison de George Sand à Nohant

Cornell Plantations - Ithaca, New York. There is a List of publications.

Chateau de Chantilly

Chateau de Courson - Site of the Journees des Plantes, a flower show held twice annually at the chateau of Patrice and Hélène Fustier located 30 miles from Paris.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation - Visit:

Duke Farms - Near Somerville, New Jersey

Shangri La - Honolulu, Hawaii

Rough Point - Newport, Rhode Island

Dumbarton Oaks - Washington D.C. research facility offers program in Garden and Landscape Studies. The Research Library provides online access to HOLLIS , the Library catalog.

Edith Wharton Restoration - The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. (See also Save America's Treasures.)

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Founded in Coral Gables in 1938 by Robert H. Montgomery (1872-1953) and named in honor of his friend, the plant explorer David Fairchild, it is a "leading center of palm research, horticulture, and conservation". The Library and Archive provides information about the collections. The Virtual Herbarium is a "text and photographic database of the specimens in the Fairchild Tropical Garden Herbarium." Of particular note is the Guide to Palms which has hundreds of high-quality images, including detailed photographs of the fruit. See, for example, Washingtonia robusta, Gastrococos crispa and Areca aff. multifida.

Florida Gardens and Preserves Collaborative - Provides Alphabetical List of Gardens and Parks in Florida

Fondation Claude Monet - Giverny. (See also Giverny.)

Fondation Parcs et Jardins de France

Gardens Guide - UK garden directory. (Use the GardenFinder, to locate Syon Park, Biddulph Grange Garden and Newby Hall & Gardens.)

Garden Week - With archived photographs of Garden Week Virtual Visits for Wave Hill, Stone Crop, Wisley, Kew, Aberglasney, White Flower Farm, Dunbarton Oaks, National Arborretum, Old Westbury Gardens, Heritage Plantation (Dexter Estate and Pond View, the editor's own garden.

Gardens Collaborative - Gardens in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Provides list of members.

Gertrude Jekyll - Official web site of the Jekyll Estate.

Göteborg Botanical Garden / Göteborgs botaniska trädgård

Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden - North Salem, New York

Herrenhausen - Baroque garden near Hanover (Germany)

Het Loo - Apeldoorn, the Nethlerlands

Hidden Gardens of Paris

- By Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, Sunday, June 29, 2008. "Intimate, lightly trafficked and often quirky, the small gardens of Paris can be ideal places to rest and to read. The trick is to find them."

Hillwood Museum & Gardens - Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Washington, DC.

Historic Garden Week in Virginia

Holden Arboretum - Largest arboretum in the United States is located in Kirtland, Ohio and encompasses over 3,100 acres.

Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam - Founded in 1638, it is "one of the oldest botanic gardens in the world. Today, there are more than 6,000 plants (over 4,000 species) growing in the garden and greenhouses."

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens - San Marino, California. Has section devoted to the Amorphophallus titanum also known as the Titan Arum or Bunga Bangkai, "Corpse flower".

I Love Gardens - Treasury of public and private gardens.

Innisfree Garden - Millbrook, New York

Jardins Botaniques de France et des pays francophones - Has over 500 members in 115 countries.

Les Jardins de Métis: Portrait of a Landscape - Estevan, Quebec, gardens created by Elsie Reford.

Jardins des Sambucs - Saint-André-de-Majencoules

Jardins ethnobotaniques de la Gardie

Les Jardins Singuliers -

JGarden: the Japanese Garden Database - Robert Cheetham's site on the historical gardens of Japan.

J. C. Raulston Arboretum - Nationally acclaimed garden is part of the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. The web site provides descriptions and photographs of the Arboretum's plant introductions. Also available at the site is an archive of Arboretum Newsletters and descriptions of the major collections.

Kykuit - Former John D. Rockefeller Jr. estate built in 1905, the Gardens were designed by William Welles Bosworth.

Ladew Topiary Gardens - Monkton, Maryland (410-557-9466). Created by Harvey S. Ladew (1887-1976).

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, Texas. Texas Plants Online is a guide to Guide to native plant landscaping.

Longwood Gardens - Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Florida. "Open-air and under-glass museum of thousands of orchids and bromeliads."

Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens - On Whidbey Island in Washington's Puget Sound.

Missouri Botanical Garden - St. Louis. Provides a tour of Seiwa-en, their Japanese garden. Illustrated Garden: Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden consists of over 100 digitized volumes..."350,744 pages and 12,357 botanical illustrations currently [January 23, 2006] online."

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson - Has a section on the Grounds. The Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants has articles from Twinleaf, CHP's annual journal.

Morton Arboretum - Lisle, Illinois. Offers plant information and a searchable plant collections catalog.

Mt. Cuba Center - Greenville, Delaware

Mounts Botanical Garden - West Palm Beach, Florida

National Association for Olmsted Parks - The Olmsted Research Guide Online is a database "that will index the 150,000 Olmsted landscape plans and drawings and other archival materials housed at Fairsted, the firm's former headquarters in Brookline, Massachusetts, and the 500,000 pages of related correspondence housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C." Database consists of descriptions only - you do no have access to the actual documents. See also Olmsted Associates Papers (Library of Congress) and Olmsted Associates: A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress.

National Gardens Scheme - UK organization raises money for charity by opening private gardens to the public for a few days a year. They offer a Garden Finder and a Archive of Stories.

National Tropical Botanical Garden - Kalaheo, Hawaii

National Trust - Index of protected houses, gardens, coast and countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Directory is searchable by theme (gardens) and provides information about such gardens as:

Stourhead,

Sissinghurst

Hidcote Manor - Hidcote Bartrim, Ebrington, Gloucestershire. Garden designed by Lawrence Waterbury Johnston (1871-1958).Johnson's garden in Menton, France, Serre de la Madone, is owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral.

New York Botanical Garden - Located in the Bronx, their LuEsther T. Mertz Library has over 1.26 million items in the collection and is one of the most comprehensive libraries in the field in the U.S. The library catalog is searchable by author, title, keywords, and subject heading. There is a section devoted to Staff Research Projects and Project Web Pages, a What's New in the Botanical Science Division page and access to Searchable Databases. The Vascular Plant Type Catalog is a work in progress to catalog approximately 75,000 vascular plant type specimens.

Old Sturbridge Village - Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Palmengarten - Frankfurt botanical park

Perennial Plant Association - They have a A Guide to Herbaceous Perennial Gardens in the United States and Canada

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park - Oyster Bay, New York

Quarryhill Botanical Garden - Glen Ellen, California. "Quarryhill today is recognized as a conservation and aesthetic treasure. Twenty of the site's 61 acres are home to one of the largest collections of scientifically documented wild-source Asian plants in North America. Its repository includes rare and endangered plants, and it distributes its plant material to other botanical gardens and research universities in North America." (Newsletter of the Garden Conservancy, Fall 2007, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 6). Their Database of Asian Plants in Cultivation

is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and "provides an inventory of living specimens, held at various institutions throughout North America and Europe, which have originated primarily from collecting expeditions to eastern Asia."

Les Jardins de Quatre-Vents - Located on the St. Lawrence River, some 80 miles northeast of Quebec in La Malbaie, Quatre Vents is considered by many to be Canada's best private garden. Make reservations through the Le Centre écologique de Port-au-Saumon (CEPAS). Quatre Vents was created by Frank Cabot, who also created Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, New York, and who is the founder and chairman of the Garden Conservancy. He was the 2000 recipient of the American Horticultural Society's Liberty Hyde Bailey Award. See Cabot's book Greater Perfection: the Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents. You can search inside the book at Amazon.com (look for pigeonnier). Margaret T. Baird's describes Cabot in Member in Focus Frank Cabot: AHS Award Winner in the The American Gardener, March/April 2000 issue. If you visit the gardens, accommodations and an excellent menu can be found at Auberge des Peupliers in Cap a l'Aigle. Chef is Dominique Truchon. (418-665-4423).

Red Butte Botanical Garden - Salt Lake City, Utah

Royal Botanic Garden - Edinburgh

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - London

Royal Botanical Gardens - Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site - Cornish, New Hampshire. "Consists of the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), one of America's greatest sculptors."

Serre de la Madone - Propriété du Conservatoire du Littoral située à Menton, France.

Stonecrop Gardens - Cold Spring, New York. "Open to visitors by appointment only from April 1 thru October 31 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and the first and third Saturdays of every month." Photographs of the garden are available in the archives of Garden Week. Stonecrop Gardens were created by Frank Cabot, founder and chairman of the Garden Conservancy, who also created Les Quatre Vents in La Malbaie, Charlevoix, Quebec. (You can read about the latter in Greater Perfection: the Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents.)

Stowe Gardens and Park - One of the birthplaces of the English landscape garden.

Toronto Botanical Garden - Library has an Online Catalog

Tower Hill Botanic Garden - Boylston, Massachusetts

Trustees of Reservations - Organization formed to "preserve, for public use and enjoyment, landscapes of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts and to protect special places across the state." With database describing 80 reservations across Massachusetts.

Union of European Historic Houses Associations - Has lists of properties for France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Great Britain.

United Kingdom Database of Historic Parks and Gardens

United States National Arboretum - Washington, D.C.

University of Washington Medicinal Herb Garden - Access by botanical or common name. Provides photographs, brief description, and links to Medline, Mrs. Grieve's Modern Herbal, AGIS EthnobotDB and AGIS Medicinal Plants of North America DB.

VanDusen Botanical Garden - Vancouver, British Columbia.

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens - Coral Gables, Florida

Wave Hill - Bronx, New York.

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library - Winterthur, Delaware

General Gardening Sites

CGVlibrary: Gateway to Global Agricultural Knowledge

Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - Has information on Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Canada

Clemson University Home and Garden Information Center - Information and more than 400 factsheets on landscape, garden and indoor plants; insects, plant diseases and other problems; and food safety and preservation.

Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: Gardening Resources

Cyberlandscape: Patrimoine Vert Europeen - "On y parle de jardins, de paysage, de patrimoine et d'environnement." Offers links to a number of European landscape gardening resources (in French).

GardenWeb - Offers Forums and the HortiPlex Plant Database

GardenWeb Europe

Home Gardening - U.S. Department of Agriculture

Hort Corner - University of Illinois Extension

I Can Garden - For Canadian gardeners

Michigan State University Master Gardener

Missouri Extension Service Publications - University of Missouri-Columbia

Ohioline: Yard & Garden

Plant America

Smithsonian: American Architecture and Gardens

Tom Clothier's Garden Walk and Talk - Information for beginning gardeners has extensive photographs and a useful section on seeds

University of Florida IRAS IDES - Offers a number of online publications on garden-related topics including:

Landscape Design

Garlic.

WebGarden - This Ohio State University site is one of the best gardening resources on the Internet. Highlights include PlantFacts, a searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural fact sheets and a database of Images of ornamental plants and pests.

History

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, (Part of the American Memory Collection in the Library of Congress).

American Seed and Nursery Industry - Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Consits of History of the American Seed and Nursery Industry and their Trade Catalogs, a bibliography compiled by Marca L. Woodhams and Biographies of American Seedsmen and Nurserymen.

André Le Nôtre

Annotated Bibliography on Southeastern American Botanical Explorers Prior to 1821 - Ronald W. Gilmour

The Archaeology and Restoration of the William Paca Garden, Annapolis, Maryland: 1966-1990 - By Jason P. Shellenhamer.

Bibliophile of Booknoll Farm - by E. A. Proulx, Horticulture, February, 1983 (pp. 34-45). Profile of Elisabeth Woodburn, a rare horticultural book dealer.

Carl Albert Purpus, Plant Collector in Western North America - Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley. With travelogues (Report on My Journey to the La Sal Mountains (1899)), biographies (On the Trail, with Purpus, in California), collected letters from 1896 to 1907, and plant lists and bibliography.

Celia Thaxter's Island Garden - Information on Celia Thaxter's century old garden on Appledore Island which is maintained by volunteers of Cornell's Shoals Marine Laboratory, which also provides information on Public Access to Appledore Island. Further information on the Isles of Shoals and Celia Thaxter, author of An Island Garden, can be found on the Seacoast NH site. The National Gallery of Art provides access to the painting, Poppies, Isles of Shoals by Childe Hassam.

Century of Gardens - From Atlantic Monthly's Flashbacks, "thematic collections of articles from the Atlantic's past that have gained new relevance today."

Cultivating Canadian Gardens: the History of Gardening in Canada - National Library of Canada.

Darwin Correspondence Project - University of Cambridge. Although you don't have access to the actual letters, you have access to a very detailed index (with cross references) to the correspondence. James Bateman (1812–1897), for example, "cultivated tropical plants, especially orchids."

Directory of botanists, plantsmen, landscapers, gardeners and writers of note

Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts - Relevant articles include Twenty-Five Years of Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks: From Italian Gardens to Theme Parks by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Movement, Intersubjectivity, and Mercantile Morality at Stourhead by Michael Charlesworth.

Fletcher Steele Landscape Architect - Includes biography and photos of Ancrum House, the gardens he designed for Angelica Gerry, Lake Delaware, Delhi, NY. and Naumkeag, Mabel Choate's gardens in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.)

Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards - Blake McKelvey's article about Rochester's hoticultural history was originally published in The Rochester Historical Society Publications, Vol XVIII (1940), 121-169. There is a section on George Ellwanger and Patrick Barry.

Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site - Brookline, Massachusetts

Garden History Links - Edwinna von Baeyer

Gardens of the Mughal Empire - This Smithsonian Productions web site recreates and studies the gardens and architecture of the Islamic dynasty that ruled between 1526-1858 in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kasmir and Northern India. "The project was initiated in Pakistan by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and became a fully collaborative joint venture with the Department of Archaeology of the Government of Pakistan and the School of Architecture at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore."

Historic Bartram's Gardens - America's oldest living botanical garden., located in Philadelphia. Offers a good collection of links to related resources.

History of Horticulture Index - Course outline distributed to students at Ohio State University by Professor Freeman S. Howlett for his 1968 course The History and Literature of Horticulture: From Earliest Times to the Present.

International Council on Monuments and Sites - Has articles on historic gardens.

Les Jardins de Métis: Portrait of a Landscape - Estevan Quebec gardens reated by Elsie Reford.

Lady Jean Skipwith's List of Flowers - Scanned image of a flower list made by Lady Jean Skipwith of Prestwould, Mecklenburg County. Her garden was one of the most extensive gardens in eighteenth-century Virginia and is well documented in the family papers at Swem Library of the College of William and Mary.

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson - Has a section on the Grounds.

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - Sir Joseph Banks was a botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage of exploration into the Pacific region between 1768 and 1771. Digitized collection consists of "10,000 manuscript pages and include correspondence, principally letters received, but also reports, invoices and accounts, journals, plus a small quantity of maps, charts and watercolours." (State Library of New South Wales)

Peter Kalm (1715-1779)- Swedish naturalist who visited the American Colonies from 1748-1751.

A Naturalist in the Colonies - Book review of The Travels of Peter Kalm: Finnish-Swedish Naturalist Through Colonial North America, 1748-1751 by Paula Ivaska Robbins, Purple Mountain Press, 2007 by Stuart Ferguson, Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2008. "We learn from her [Robbins] -- and not from Kalm himself, who died before he could recount his trip in full -- that in western New York state Kalm stayed with Sir William Johnson, a man who lived in a fortified manor house with his Mohawk wife, entertained hundred of Iroquois at a time and presided over his German tenant farmers and Indian allies like a feudal chieftain. It was Johnson who gave advice to Kalm about the naturalist's two trips to Canada, provided guides through the forest and arranged the party of Indians who paddled Kalm across Lake Ontario to the French outpost at Fort Niagara."

Plant Trivia Timeline - Huntington Botanical Gardens

Museum of Garden History - London

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for Ellen Biddle Shipman, for example retrieves records for collections at Cornell and Radcliffe.

Project Linnaeus - Collaborative project of the Swedish Linnaean Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the Linnean Society of London to edit a corpus of 7000 letters to and from Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern botanical classification.

Seeds of Change Garden - Smithsonian Institution site "examines the exchange of plants and seeds between the Old and New Worlds following Columbus's discovery of America in 1492."

South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity - Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University

Images

Note: Search for any of the following: herbals, herbularius, botanical prints, florilegia (compendia of engravings of flowers and plants), hortus conclusus (Latin phrase meaning an enclosed garden), hortus deliciarum (garden of pleasure) or do a Google image search for the following names: Giovanni Battista Falda, Basil Besler (1561-1629), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1742), Launcelot 'Capability' Brown, Peter Schoeffer, Pierre Joseph Redouté, Jean Louis Prevost, James Bateman (1811-1897), George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Thomas Moore, Robert John Thornton (1768-1837, Charles Plumier, Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), Joseph Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), Elizabeth Blackwell (A Curious Herbal), Samuel Curtis, Clara Maria Pope (d. 1838), Ferdinand and Francis Bauer, Francois André Michaux, and Etienne Pierre Ventenat (1757-1808). Botanical Illustration: A Selected Bibliography has been compiled by Julene Sodt of the Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

Almaden Wildflower Photos - From the IBM Almaden Research Center.

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 - Approximately 4,500 photographs from the University of Chicago Library documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. (American Memory Project, Library of Congress.)

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress collection of "approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models. Hundreds of private estates from all over the United States are represented in the collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens (including features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors)."

Archives nationales du Canada / National Archives of Canada - Use the Documentary Art Database to search for online images. Botanical images include Susanna Moodie's Carnations and Bunch of Wildflowers (ca.1870), Prairie Flowers near Broadview, Assiniboia (1887) by Edward Roper, The Market Garden of the Tropics, Malayan Pineapples (1931) by Edgar Ainsworth, Button Wood Tree (ca 1840) by Philip John Bainbrigge, Bloodroot, Dog's Tooth Violet and Red Trillium (ca. 1827) by Fanny Amelia Bayfield, Birch Trees in the Government Gardens, Quebec (ca. 1838-1842) by Millicent Mary Chaplin, Botanical Sketches, (Northwest Territories (1825-1826) by George Back, South African Orange Orchards (1926-1934) by Guy Kortright, Tobacco Plantation in South Rhodesia (1926-1934), Rosa Blanda, Labradore Rose or Hudson's Bay Rose (1797) by Mary Lawrance, Lady's Slipper Orchids (ca 1840) and Fiji (1926-1934) by Keith Henderson

Art of Botanical Illustration - Botanical books published from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States from the University of Delaware Department of Special Collections.

An Array of Botanical Images - Photographs by James L. Reveal, Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland.

Atlas Van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker - Dutch atlases of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are searchable by source, date, name, geography and keyword. Joint project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the British Library. You can also view the maps per atlas (browse). The Atlas van der Hagen consists of four volumes with 447 images. Of particular interest in Volume II are the series of copper engravings depicting views of the pleasure gardens of Enghien near Brussels (85 through 99), "commissioned by Nicolaas Visscher II (1649-1702) and engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708)." (See Number 93, Le labyrinthe avec la magnifique fontaine d' Amphitriae.)

Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles - Tim Baroni, SUNY Cortland

BioImages: Virtual Field-Guide - Offers over 17,000 images of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin. Multiple views are often available, as is the case for Gentianella amarella x germanica. The site has an index. The Plants section consists of:

Bryophyta (mosses and Liverworts)

Chromista

Vascular Plants

Magnoliopsida

Equisetopsida (horsetails)

Pinopsida (conifers)

Pteropsida (ferns)

Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927

- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. This collection "represents the work of intrepid plant explorers who traveled to exotic lands in the early years of the twentieth century and returned to the Arboretum with not only seeds, live plants, and dried herbarium specimens, but also with remarkable images of plants, people, and landscapes" and consists of over 4,500 botanical and cultural images by:

John George Jack (1861-1949) - 172 images

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930) - 2,457 images. See also A Continuing Legacy: Hybrid Marvels of Wilson Plant Introductions by Michael Dosmann, Curator lf Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum News, Fall/Winter 2007-2008. Images include Prunus serrulata var. pubescens Japan - Outdoor market by street with trees behind, Nara Park, Nara, Hondo, Japan, 25 April 1914; Codonopsis tangshen - Vegetation with Man, Codonopsis tangshen Hemsl. Fang Hsien, China. "Root valued as a drug and known as 'Tang-shen.' Altitude 4000 ft." 22 June 1910.

Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918) - 1,350 images

William Purdom (1880-1921) - 173 images

Joseph Hers (1884-1965) - 68 images

Joseph Charles Francis Rock (1884-1962) - 320 images

Botanical Garden of the University of Catania (Orto botanico Università di Catania) - Has over 800 pictures (listed in the index) of plants grown in the Botanical Gardens including:

Lophophora williamsii

Ceratonia siliqua L.

Bougainvillea x buttiana Mrs. Butt.

Botanical Image Database - University of Basel.

Botanischer Garten Bochum - Gesamtabbildungsverzeichnis - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or or browse by subject or geographic location. Here you'll find photographs of:

Japanese Gardens at Kykuit

Greenhouse at Lyndhurst

Pleasure Gardens at Lindenwold

Japanese Tea House at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Gardener's house at Stan Hywet Hall

Toddsbury Outbuildigs & Gardens

Oxon Hill Manor Grounds, Oxon Hill, Maryland

CalPhotos: Plants - Berkeley Digital Library Project has over 21,000 searchable and browsable images of plants.

Charles F. Gillette Photograph Collection - Library of Virginia collection consists of 862 images, all part of the collection of Charles F. Gillette Papers at the Library of Virginia. Gillette (1886-1969) is "nationally recognized as one of the premier landscape architects associated with the restoration and re-creation of historic gardens in the upper South and especially Virginia.". The images "primarily depict Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other landscape design projects. There are also many personal photographs of Gillette, Ellen Cogswell Gillette, and the various homes in which they lived."

Collectie Botanie

- Universiteitsmuseum Amsterdam, Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UBA). Search (zoek) for Wijnands, Orchis, Quercus, aquarel. Click on beschrijving to retrieve the catalog record. Examples:

Caladium bicolor - Watercolor by Maria Moninckx, 1704

Common Plants of the Verde Valley & Sedona -Doug Von Gausig's site's purpose is to assist with the visual identification of the most common native and "feral" or escapee plants of the Verde Valley of central Arizona.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - University of Wisconsin Madison. Among the E-Facsimiles is Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter, and philosopher (1812) by Robert Thornton with the spectacular Night-Blowing Cereus; or, Cactus Grandiflorus.

Flora Danica - The Royal Library, Copenhagen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek). "Danish botanical work Flora Danica, begun in 1761, consists of 3,240 engravings in folio of all the wild plants that grew in the kingdom of Denmark." (Also available in English.) You can browse the images by number and search by name or plate number. Look for:

Digitalis purpurea (foxglove), Hft. 2, Tab. 74.

Dipsacus silvester (teasel), Hft. 17, Tab. 965.

Delphinium Consolida (larkspur), Hft. 12, Tab. 683.

Lonicera Periclym - Hft. 16, Tab. 908.
See also the Flora Danica porcelain dinner set, made between 1790 and 1802, consisting of 1802 pieces, of which 1500 survive. The porcelain is still made today by Royal Copenhagen and is described by them as "the world's most prestigious dinner service." See cake dish (Item no. 1141354) , square tray (Item no. 1141363) and candlestick (Item no. 1141503).

Flora of China - English-language revision of the Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS) in which "all the vascular plants of China will be covered, including brief descriptions, identification keys, essential synonymy, phenology, provincial distribution in China, brief statements on extra-Chinese distribution, and remarks regarding the circumscription of problematic taxa." With a page with links to images.

Flora of Europe: A Photographic Herbarium - 660 pictures of flowers, mostly of southern Europe. A.Voswinkel, the Netherlands.

Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz - By Otto Wilhelm Thomé, 1885 - 1905, 4 volumes. 572 botanical illustrations, also listed alphabetically. Also available here. (Part of Kurt Stüber's online library of historic biological books.)

Florida Wildflower Page - Michael E. Abrams

Forest Flora of New South Wales - by Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925). (Part of the University of Sydney Library's SETIS Australian Electronic Texts project.)

Fungi Images on the Net - Flemming V. Larsen

Fungus plates painted under the supervision of Elias Fries - Selection of paintings of fungi by the Swedish mycologist Elias Fries (1794-1878) from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Fungi of the San Francisco Bay Area - Over 1100 images of the higher fungi (mushrooms) found in the San Francisco Bay Area, an area surrounding the city of San Francisco in central coastal California. (Michael Wood and Fred Stevens.)

Hawaiian Native Plants - Gerald Carr, Botany Department, University of Hawaii.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage - Henriette Kress's site on culinary and medicinal herbs includes 3290 plant pictures.

Herbals & Early Gardening Books from the Doris and Marc Patten Collection - Catalog of the collection includes images, listing by subject, author and title. (From Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University.)

English Heritage - "British Government's official adviser in England on all matters concerning heritage conservation." ViewFinder is a browsable picture library with over 18,000 images, many by Henry W. Taunt, "an important photographer who worked out of premises in Oxford between 1860-1922. His main interests were Oxfordshire and surrounding counties, the River Thames, customs and local history." Garden photographs include Hidcote House, Hidcote Bartrim, Ebrington, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC73/00559), Ankerwyke House, Picnic House, Wraysbury, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT02820), Streatley House, Gardens, Streatley, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT13710), Hatherop Castle, Gardens, Hatherop, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/01932) and Abingdon Abbey, Sham Abbey, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (Ref. no: CC97/02085).

Historic Fruit Images - Images of fruit from U. P. Hedrick's Small Fruits of New York, a classic reference for those working with cultivated varieties of berries, published by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1925. (National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, Oregon)

Hort.net Gallery of Plants - Over 3100 images of over 1500 plants.

Illustrated Garden: Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden - Consists of over 100 digitized volumes..."350,744 pages and 12,357 botanical illustrations currently [January 23, 2006] online."

John Pfahl

- Photographer. See his Extreme Horticulture (1998-2002) series.

Kyoto University Digital Library

Flora Japonica (1827) - The plates illustrating conifers begin with Sciadopitys verticillata in Volume 2.

Flora Javae nec non Insularum Adjacentium (1828-36) - By Carolo Ludovico Blume. Color images begin on p. 136. See, for example, Quercus Platycarpa

Linnean herbarium - Over 2,000 images from the Department of Phanerogamic Botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Lotus in Japan - Images and descriptions of several lotus varieties grown in the Kemigawa Ryokuchi Experimental Station, also known as the Experimental Station for Landscape Plants, which is a division of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo. There are also photographs of camellias. See, for example, camellias with striped petals.

Medical Plant Images - Michael Moore, Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Bisbee, Arizona. Over 1600 images and maps. With Index.

National Agricultural Library Special Collections - Images from Special Collections. Subjects include stewards of the land, forest insects, forest fire fighters, natural phenomena and homesteads, USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection and Rare Book Collection. Curtis Botanical Magazine is a digital collection of "one thousand fifty records, one thousand forty-eight plates, (two of the original plates are missing, plates 797 & 860), and there are one thousand four hundred fifty-six related pages of text from the first 26 volumes. The entire print collection of 164 volumes is housed at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland." Images include Heath-leaved Banksia, Honey-bearing Protea, Laurel-leaved Rhododendron and the Yellow Day-lily.

National Diet Library - The Rare Books department of Japan's national library, located in Tokyo, has an online exhibition which features outstanding works from its collection. Unfortunately its only available in Japanese, but it is nonetheless well worth exploring just for the sheer quality of the high resolution images. There are 100 items in the online exhibition of books from the collection, which includes Japanese items and a number of non-Japanese works from around the world. (See Maps 1, 2, 3 and 4.) Included in the exhibition are botanical prints by Redoute (dianthus), Miss Rosenberg (lily), William Hooker, Merian and Oskamp, offered in high or low resolution. There are also two collections of botanical prints, both European and Japanese.

National Gallery of Art - Has digitized many of the paintings in the collection, which you can find using the search option (selecting images only). You can also search by accession number. Examples include:

The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (1991.27.1) - Calude Monet, 1873.

Japanese Footbridge (1992.9.1) - Claude Monet, 1899.

Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers (1963.10.181) - Claude Monet

The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil (1970.17.45) - Claude Monet

Poppies, Isles of Shoals (1997.135.1) - Childe Hassam

Tuft of Cowslips (1991.217.1) - Albrecht Dürer

Roses (1991.67.1) - Vincent van Gogh

Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds (1982.73.1) - Martin Johnson Heade

Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth (1996.14.1) - Martin Johnson Heade

Flowers in a Rococo Vase (1963.10.105) - Paul Cézanne

Vase of Flowers (1958.10.2) - Paul Cézanne

Roses in a Bottle (1995.47.26.a) - Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Peonies (1995.47.10) - Paul Gauguin

Flowers in an Urn (1977.7.1) - Jan van Huysum

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit (1996.80.1) - Jan van Huysum

Flowers in a Crystal Vase (1970.17.37) - Edouard Manet

Peonies (1994.59.10) -Berthe Morisot

A Hanging Bouquet of Flowers (1992.51.5) - Abraham Mignon

Flowers in a Vase (1970.17.56) - Odilon Redon

Wildflowers (1961.12.1) - Odilon Redon

Pansies (1961.14.1) - Odilon Redon

Flowers in a Vase (1983.1.32) - Auguste Renoir

Picking Flowers (1970.17.61) - Auguste Renoir

A Bouquet of Flowers with Insects (1988.12.1) - Pierre Joseph Redouté

L'Agonie des Fleurs (1943.3.8909) - Theodore Roussel

Untitled (vase of flowers) (1986.56.649.a) - Mark Rothko

Roses and Tulips and Jasmine in a Glass with a Dragonfly and a Butterfly (1992.51.4) - Jan Philips van Thielen

Marigolds and Tangerines (1963.10.78) - Félix Vallotton

A Basket of Mixed Flowers and A Vase of Flowers (1992.51.7) - Jan Brueghel the Elder

Basket of Flowers (1992.51.2) - Balthasar van der Ast

Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass Vase (1996.35.1) - Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder

Flowers in a Vase (1976.26.2) - Philip van Kouwenbergh, 1700.

Vase of Flowers (1961.6.1) - Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1606.

Young Woman with Peonies (1983.1.6) - Frédéric Bazille

The Artist's Garden (1954.4.2) - Ralph Albert Blakelock

The Artist's Garden at Eragny (1970.17.54) - Camille Pissarro

The Gardener - Old Peasant with Cabbage (1994.59.6)

Woman Working in a Garden(1970.17.167).

Online Archive of California - A search for garden* retrieves over 1000 results.

Orchid Photo Page - Gred Allikas offers over 200 photos of orchids as well as links to other resources.

Plant Images - High quality photographs by Steven J. Wolf, Biology Department California State University, Stanislaus. With searchable database. Examples: Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), Blazing Star (Mentzelia crocea), Sago palm (Cycas revoluta). (Hint: do a search without typing anything in the boxes and you'll get the entire database.) Don't miss the course material for his Flowering Plants Botany 3700 class.

Plants of Hawaii - "A collection of 45,000+ images for 1,600+ plant taxa, by Forest & Kim Starr."

Poisonous Plants - Cornell University

Stein's Virtual Herbarium - Kenneth J. Stein provides photographs of representative specimens from the Appalachians which are widely-distributed east of the Mississippi River.

Preserving and Digitizing Plant Images: Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access - Missouri Botanical Garden project to develop a database of plant imagesand associated data. With alphabetical Index of images.

Seed Catalogs - Selections from Smithsonian Institution Libraries collection of 10,000 seed and nursery catalogs dating from 1830 to the present.

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine - Bisbee, Arizona. Many plant images

Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia - "Incorporates 679 excerpts from original sound recordings and 1,256 photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley." A wonderful resource for finding photographs and interviews about folkways, herbs, trees and wildflowers.

Triptych A Digital Initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries

- "Draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends." You can search within The Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations, an image database of over 1300 images. Included are of the plates from Peter Simon Pallas's Flora Rossica (1784) and all the illustrations from Edward Lear's Illustrations of the family psittacidae, or parrots (1832). Use the Advanced Search option to limit by collection . A search within the collection for flowers, for example, retrieves over 200 results.

Tropicos Image Index - W3Tropicos provides access to "Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST nomenclatural database and associated authority files."

Tulip Book of P. Cos - Pictures of tulips from the 17th century; Wageningen Agricultural University Library, The Netherlands

Ursus Books Print Gallery: Botanical Art

Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Texas A & M University site arranged alphabetically by family and provides images and brief descriptions.

Vilar Virtual Landscape Gallery - Database of over 1700 images of European parks and gardens. (In French and English) Search by country, period, type of garden, or keyword.

Virginia Tech Imagebase - Has a section on Agriculture, Horticulture, Gardening.

What is an Herb? - Online exhibition at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia features the herbals of Dioscorides, the Aztecs, Gerard, and Culpeper.

Landscape Designers & Landscape Architects

Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Landscape and architectural design.

Rue du Bac (2002) - "An oasis in the centre of Paris with a country feel."

Laughing Waters - Barbados

Lawrence Halprin (1916- ) - See Lawrence Halprin Collection at the University of Pennsylvania

Perry Guillot - Southampton

Mia Lehrer - Los Angeles

André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) - Designed the gardens at Meudon, Saint-Germain en-Laye, Sceaux, Chantilly, Les Tuileries, Saint-Cloud, Versailles. (In French).

Lord & Schryver - Established by Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver (both students of the Lowthorpe School in Groton) in Salem in 1929.

Steve Martino - Phoenix

Julie Moir Messervy

Deborah Nevins - New York

Mario Nievera - Palm Beach

Linda Plato

Ellen Biddle Shipman

Ken Smith - New York

Robert Truskowski - Laguna Beach

Nelson Byrd Woltz - Charlottesville

Growing Celebrity by Troy McMullen, Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2005.)

Wirtz International - See Wirtz Gardens (2004) by Patrick Taylor

Libraries

Agricola - National Agricultural Library Article Citation Database Archives Hub: Collection of the Month [March 2005]: Botany - "Collections of botanists and botanical societies of the past three hundred years. These include the papers of herbalists, biochemists, geneticists, and even missionaries."

Arnold Arboretum Library and Archives - Book collection is searchable via HOLLIS

Bibliothèque René Pechère - Bruxelles

Bibliothèque du Jardin botanique de Montréal - Provides access to online catalogue

British Library Oral history: National Life Story Collection - To search the collection go to British Library catalogues on the web and search the Sound Archive Catalogue by name. Down to Earth: An Oral History of British Horticulture contains extensive descriptions of interview contents and documents "British gardeners, plantsmen and women, garden designers, landscape architects, seed growers, and horticulturists." Interviewees are: David Austin (1928 - ), rose breeder; Lawrence Banks, interviewed by Louise Brodie in November 2006 [C1029/39]; Mavis Batey, Alan Bloom (1906 - ); Christopher Brickell, John Brookes (1933 - ), garden designer; Ron Butler, Jim Buttress, Beth Chatto (1923) (the interview summary includes an interesting description of her visit to the United States in 1983. She mentions Frank Cabot, Fred McGourty, Larry Pordue, Linc Foster, and RC Raulston); Julia Clements, Peggy Cole, Harry Dodson, Gilly Drummond (1939-); Andrew Dunn (1916 - ) and Nick Dunn (1952 - ), tree nursery owners, interviewed by Louise Brodie in September 2006; Valerie Finnis; Fergus Garrett, Alan Gear (1949 - ), organic horticulturalist; Douglas Henderson, Penelope Hobhouse, John Humphris, Ann Lambert, Roy Lancaster, (1937-), gardener, writer, broadcaster, interviewed by Louise Brodie in 2005; Joy Larkcom, Jim Link (1934 - , forester, gardener; Christopher Lloyd, Richard Mabey, Anna Pavord, Geoff Pick, Richard Carew Pole, interviewed by Louise Brodie on 5 October 2006; Ghillean T. Prance, Don Prior (1929-), Miriam Rothschild, Lady Marjorie Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury, Pamela Schwerdt, Tim Smit and Sue Minter, David Standing, Geoffrey Stokes, Graham Stuart Thomas (1909-); Medwyn Williams, Jan Woudstra, and Tom Wright. Playback, the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive, is published three times a year and includes previous issues back to 1998.

Bücherei des Deutschen Gartenbaues - Association of the German Horticulture Library, Berlin.

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries - Has a list of Member Libraries. There is a list of winners of the Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature.

Dumbarton Oaks - Washington D.C. research facility offers program in Landscape Architecture and provides access to their online catalog.

Elisabeth C. Miller Horticulture Library - Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington. Among the best horticultural reference libraries in the country. Offers:

Sources for Plants

Plant Answer Line

Directory of Recommended Links

New Acquisitions

Book Lists by Topics

Online Catalog

Periodicals at the Miller Library

Information Resources: Children and Nature

- 57 page annotated list of fiction and non-fiction books for children. It also includes websites and resources for parents and teachers published August 4, 2008.

European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group - Has a Directory of members.

Herbs and Herb Gardening: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide - Compiled by Suzanne DeMuth, National Agricultural Library, August 1996.

Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden - With archive of Current Books & Book Reviews.

Library of American Landscape History - Amherst, Massachusetts. View, the annual newsletter, is available online: Summer 2007, Number 7, Summer 2006, Summer 2005, Summer 2004, Number 4, Summer 2003 and Summer 2002.

Library of Congress Online Catalog

Lindley Library - Royal Horticultural Society, London. Provides access to the online catalogue. There are clips from the Gardens Oral History Project

LuEsther T. Mertz Library - New York Botanical Garden Library is one of the world's largest and most active botanical/horticultural libraries. Offers access to online catalog.

National Agricultural Library - In Special Collections there is a Rare Book Collection

Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft - Established in 1790. The library has an online catalog.

Smithsonian Contributions to Botany - "This series reports on the scientific, technical, and historical research conducted by Smithsonian staff and their professional colleagues, as well as on the collections of the various Smithsonian museums." Titles include:

The Woods and Flora of the Florida Keys: "Pinnatae" by Barrett Nelson Rock, 1972

A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Orchidaceae by Pamela Burns-Balogh and V. A. Funk, 1986

Begoniaceae Part I: Illustrated Key, Part II: Annotated Species List by Lyman B. Smith, Dieter C. Wasshausen, Jack Golding and Carrie E. Karegeannes, 1986

A History of Botanical Exploration in Amazonian Ecuador, 1739-1988 by S. S. Renner, 1993

Commercial Timbers of West Africa by Edward S. Ayensu and Albert Bentum, 1974

Smithsonian Institution Botany & Horticulture Library - There is also A Horticulture Services Division and an Archives of American Gardens (AAG).

University of Delaware Library

Unidel History of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Collection

Suitable for Cultivation: Horticultural Collections at the University of Delaware Library - Catalog of an Exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris Library 1990. Introduction by Alice Schreyer, Entries compiled by Gary E. Yela.

University of Pennsylvania Press: Complete Catalog: Art, Architecture, Garden History - You can search the full-text of the books in the catalog. See, for example, the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

VanDusen Botanical Garden Library - Vancouver, British Columbia. ""Largest public-access botanical and horticultural library in Western Canada."

Watkinson Library - Trinity College, Hartford. Has an online exhibition Herbs to Orchids: Botanical Illustration in the Nineteenth Century with an Image Gallery.

Magazines and Journals

The American Gardener - American Horticultural Society

American Journal of Botany - Published by the Botanical Society of America the site provides full-text access.

Better Homes and Gardens Online - Their Editors' Choice Plant Guide is a collection of plants hand-picked by two leading horticulture experts: Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage.

Chicago Botanic Garden: Current Books & Book Reviews

Country Life Online - UK

Country Living Gardener - HomeArts

Dig Magazine: Home & Garden Diversions

Dig It! Magazine

English Garden

Fine Gardening - Ornamental and landscape design magazine provides an archives of articles and tips from the magazine divided into the following categories: Design, Techniques, Plants, and Structures. Recent features include Butterflies and Host Plants, Companion Plant for Lilies, Making Sense of Dahlias, and Fuzzy, Prickly and Tickly to Touch. There is also an annotated list of Sites to See.

FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. For example, here you'll find From bouquets to baskets. (English gardens) by Mark Laird, from the June 2000 issue of the Magazine Antiques.

The Garden - Archives provides access to selected articles from this Royal Horticultural Society publication.

Garden Design

Harvard Design Magazine - Has articles on landscape architecture. The Fall 2006/Winter 2007 issue (Number 25), for example, has a review of Sprawl: A Compact History.

The Heirloom Gardener

Historic Gardens Review - With index from 1995 to present.

Horticulture Online - Horticulture Magazine's online presence. (Free registration.) Subscribe at Amazon.com.

Journal of Experimental Botany - Searchable and browsable. Access is free to full-text articles over a year old.

Lingua Botanica - A Journal of U.S. Forest Service Botanists & Plant Ecologists, National Botanical Journal

Martha Stewart Living: Gardening

Mother Earth News

Organic Gardening - Rodale Press

Orion - See A Garden Becomes a Protest

People, Places and Plants Magazine (ppplant.com) - Gardening magazine produced in Maine

Plant Cell - Searchable and browsable. Access is free to full-text articles over a year old.

Plants Magazine - UK source for collectors of new, rare or unusual plants.

Plant Physiology - Searchable and browsable. Access is free to full-text articles over a year old.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Full-text articles from the current issue, indexed by author, the Early Edition and browsable and searchable articles from Archives from January 1, 1990. Examples of plant-related articles include The origin of plants: Body plan changes contributing to a major evolutionary radiation by Linda E. Graham, Martha E. Cook, and James S. Busse, PNAS, Vol. 97, Issue 9, 4535-4540, April 25, 2000 and Evidence on the origin of cassava: Phylogeography of Manihot esculenta by Kenneth M. Olsen and Barbara A. Schaal, PNAS, Vol. 96, Issue 10, 5586-5591, May 11, 1999.

PubMed - Provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. (A search for echinacea retrieves 95 citations, a search for medicine, herbal retrieves over 1400.)

Research/Penn State - With Archives. Articles of interest include The Joy of Garlic (May 1999), Cocoa Futures (May 2001) and Gardening Goes Native (January 2000).

Scientific American - Provides a Search Engine which will retrieve numerous articles about ecology, gardens, plants and insects.

Smithsonian Magazine - Site is searchable and offers a list of issues from January 1995 to the Present. Examples of articles related to gardening include Brussels' Palace of Glass and Greenery (March 2001), with Resident Experts Janet Draper, Nancy Bechtol and Christraud Geary; Keith Robinson: Hawaii's botanical Robin Hood (November 1996), An Oasis of Art (January 2001) and Take a walk on the Wild Side: Smithsonian's Gardens are Living Museums (March 2001).

Southern Living

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes - Published By: Routledge (ISSN: 1460-1176). Scholarly work on international garden history. Formerly the Journal of Garden History

Sunset Magazine - Has a Gardening Section

Traditional Gardening - Michael Weishan's online journal of practical information on creating and restoring classic gardens has selected articles from current and past issues.

U.S. News Online - Site is searchable

Virtual Gardener - "An online magazine with organic roots."

Media

AJR/NewsLink - Most newspapers have gardening columns. The American Journalism Review site lists newspapers by state. Other newspaper directories include the Internet Public Library's links to Online Newspapers and Editor & Publisher's Online Media Directory. For an extensive list of directories see Digital Librarian's collection of links to Newspaper Directories.

BBC: Gardening - Garden shows include:

C-SPAN Digital Library - You can use search, advanced search or search by tag.

Tour of the White House Flower Shop - "White House floral designer, Nancy Clarke, spoke about the daily operations of the White house florist and special activity surrounding the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II. She talked about procurement, assembly and placement of the floral displays." December 1, 2008 [10:00]

Missouri Botanical Garden - June 14, 2000

Cultivated Gardener - "Nationally-syndicated, hour-long, weekly radio program that provides high-quality entertainment and practical information to the nation's hobby and professional gardeners."

Detroit News: Plants & Gardens

From the Garden with P. Allen Smith - "The most watched gardener on television."

Gestalt Gardener with Felder Rushing - WMPN. Mississippi Public Broadcasting horticulturist Felder Rushing often travels around the country and broadcasts from various locations. Access via on demand archive or podcast.

Jeff Seabold - 28 November 2008. Guest is Jeff Seabold of Weaver Architects talking about green architecture.

Monticello, Virginia - 5 September 2008

Tombstone, Arizona - 30 January 2009

Home & Garden Television (HGTV) Online - Provides information on This Week's Episodes

HomeGrown - WFPL, 89.3 FM in Louisville, Kentucky. Sundy garden radio show with Bob Hill and Jeneen Wiche. Has an Audio Archive of past shows.

Living on Earth - Steve Curwood hosts this National Public Radio show. Site provides information on This Week's Show and the Garden Spot with Michael Weishan.

London Daily Telegraph

Gardening Home Page

The world's 50 most beautiful gardens: Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas

Gardening: Stepping stones in autumn: Elspeth Thompson's garden choice. This week: stepping stones in autumn - London Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2008.

National Public Radio - The site is searchable and provides audio archives of past shows. A search for gardening retrieved Gardens in New York which aired on Thursday, April 22,1999 on All Things Considered, and Fall Gardening, interviews with Jamaica Kincaid (author of My Garden) and Mark Silber (of Hedgehog Hill Farm in Sumner, Maine and co-author of Growing Herbs & Vegetables: from Seed to Harvest)which aired Monday, November 15,1999 on Talk of the Nation. A search for Ketzel Levine, the garden expert on Weekend Edition, is also fruitful. See also Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants. In a March 2,2000 Morning Edition segment, Botanical Moving, Carol Zimmer reports on two botanists who work at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx who are moving six-million specimens to thei new home by hand. In Morning Edition's Celebrity Gardens series, Ketzel Levine talks with Actors Peter Strauss and John Spencer, Author T. C. Boyle, and Émigré Ganna Walska.

New York Times - Free archives from 1987. See Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site

by Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, September 18, 2007. "In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free." There is a Home & Garden section. Search the archives for articles by Anne Raver, Cass Peterson, Ken Druse, Joan Lee Faust, Linda Yang

Perennial Gardener with Karen Strohbeen - PBS series

Philly.com: Gardening

Rebecca's Garden - WCVB. Boston

Science Friday

Gardening with Native Plants - May 22nd, 2009. Features Doug Tallamy

Victory Garden - WGBH

Washington Post: Home & Garden

Yahoo Broadcast: Lawn and Garden - Links to gardening radio shows and other related audio resources.

News

Cornell News - Has a search page which will search for articles in the Cornell Chronicle and in Cornell News Releases. A few examples of articles of interest include Ginseng growers hope that New York's forests are enchanted, (Science News, Feb. 24, 1997), Biocontrol beetles target purple loosestrife, (Cornell Chronicle, July 24, 1997), Student ethnobotany expeditions may yield secrets of herbal medicines, (Cornell Chronicle, January 16, 1997), and Winter plant care reduces springtime pest problems, say Cornell Plantations experts, (Cornell News, December 10, 1999).

Flora Source - Web newswire for the horticulture industry.

Mother Earth News

ScienceDaily Magazine - Science news. Has search engine. Other news sites include Science News Online, which is searchable and provides selected full-text articles, ABC News: Technology and Science, Eurekalert, also searchable, Scientific American and Unisci: Daily University Science News.

Nurseries and Catalogs

Angelgrove Tree Seed Company - Online seed catalog features over 135 varieties of tree seeds for Japanese trees, ornamental, shade & native trees, bonsai and flowering trees and includes garden seeds for a few selected shrub roses and flowering vines.

Appalachian Nurseries - Wholesaler, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (formerly Appalachian Gardens)

Arrowhead Alpines - Fowlerville, Michigan firm specializes in rare perennials, alpine and rock plants, wildflowers and dwarf conifers. Has a photo gallery with 600 images.

Artistic Gardens (Le Jardin du Gourmet) - Vermont garden center and mail order seed company.

Asiatica Nursery - Lewisberry, Pennsylvania. Owned by Barry Yinger

Bailey Nurseries - St. Paul, Minnesota

Beth Chatto Gardens - Colchester, Essex, UK. With Picture Gallery

Blooms of Bressingham North America

Bluebird Nursery - Clarkson, Nebraska.

Bluestone Perennials - Online catalog

Bodger Seeds Ltd

Bon Vivant Nursery - Urbana, Illinois

Brushwood Nursery - Unionville, Pennsylvania. Specializes in vines and climbers and has a extensive selection of clematis.

Burpee

Calle-Plant - Belgian nursery was founded in 1895 and has stayed in the family and is currently run by the four Calle Brothers (Luc, Jan, Marc and Wim). It specializes in fruit trees and ornamental plants. "Quatre frères, quatre établissements, quatre spécialités."

Camellia Forest Nursery - Chapel Hill, North Carolina firm "specializes in Camellias and other plants that are uncommon in cultivation and especially suited for landscape use."

Canyon Creek Nursery - Oroville, California. "Mail order source for uncommon perennials since 1985." (530-533-2166)

Caprilands Herb Farm - Coventry, Connecticut. The creator of the garden, Adelma Grenier Simmons, died on December 3, 1997. See Adelma Grenier Simmons, 93, Authority on Herbs, Is Dead by William Grimes, New York Times, December 5, 1997.

Carpenter Perennial Farm - West Lafayette, Indiana. A good source for daylilies

Cayeux - French firm is one of the oldest established growers and breeders of irises in the world.

Chiltern Seeds - Ulverston, Cumbria, UK

Clause Tezier

Compost Tumbler - "Makes compost in 14 days."

Cook's Garden - Burlington, Vermont business specializes in vegetables and salad greens, edible flowers and ornamental vegetables.

Corn Hill Nursery - New Brunswick, Canada

Crownsville Nursery - Crownsville, Maryland. They sell perennials, woody ornamentals and tropicals & tender perennials.

Crûg Farm Plants - Gwynedd UK

Cyndi's Catalog of Garden Catalogs - Cyndi Johnson provides addresses and links (when available) for over 1900 gardening catalogs, organized alphabetically and by specialty.

Dave's Gardens - The Garden Watchdog Guide to Gardening by Mail is a directory of over 5,000 gardening vendors, searchable by zip code or company name.

David Austin Roses

Duchy of Cornwall Nursery

Ducrettet - Potagères Classiques

Dutch Bulbs - Van Bourgondien

eSeeds - With alphabetical index.

Eastern Plant Specialties - Mark Stavish, Clark, New Jersey

Edible Landscaping - Blue Ridge Mountain nursery

Edmunds' Roses - Wilsonville, Oregon.

Elk Mountain Nursery - Asheville, North Carolina nursery offers shade, groundcover and woodland plants of the Southeast.

Ensata Gardens - Galesburg, Michigan. Specializing in Japanese, Siberian and Species Iris as well as hostas and daylilies.

Ernst Benary Samenzucht

European Plant Index

Fairweather Gardens - Greenwich, New Jersey. "Unusual trees, shrubs & perennials." (609-451-6261)

Fedco Seeds - Waterville Maine business, organized as a cooperative, has four divisions trees and seeds, bulbs and Moose Tubers and Organic Growers Supply (OGS).

Flecke Saaten Handel - Wunstorf, Germany. "Privately owned, German corporation specializing in the production and wholesale of open-pollinated flower seeds."

Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry Certified Nursery and Stock Dealer Directory - There's also a pdf file of Nurseries by Name dated June 7, 2005.

Floranova - Norfolk, UK

ForestFarm Plant Nursery - Williams, Oregon. Has a Photo Gallery with over 5,000 images. (503-846-7269)

Fuchsia en Kuipplantenkwekerij Gommer - Dutch nursery offers 3000 species of Fuchsia as well as Brugmansia, Passionflowers, Pelargonium and other patio plants.Site offers over 700 photographs, taken by nursery owner Hendrik Jan Gommer.

Garden Watchdog - Directory of over 2,000 mail-order gardening companies.

Gardener's Supply Company - Burlington, Vermont

Gardens Alive! - "Environmentally responsible products that work."

Geraniaceae - Small nursery in Marin County, California specializing in some of the plants of the Geranium family.

Gilberties Herb Gardens - Westport, Connecticut, firm specializes in herbs

Gourmet Gardener - Specializes in vegetables from France, edible flowers, annuals and everlastings.

Goldsmith Seeds - Gilroy, California.

Gossler Farms Nursery - Springfield, Oregon. (514-746-3922)

Greer Gardens - Mail order nursery located in Eugene, Oregon, specializes in the "rare and unusual", particularly azaleas, bonsai, conifers, ferns, magnolias and rhododendrons. (800-548-0111)

Hedgehog Hill Farm - Small farm in Sumner, Maine, has gardens open to the public, workshops, free lectures, a shop, and a nursery.

Heronswood Nursery - Dan Hinkley's nursery in Kingston,Washington is one of the best mail-order sources for rare plants. See Where Eden Could Order Its Plants by Anne Raver, New York Times, October 6, 2005.

High Country Gardens - Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Horticultural Trades Association - Directories of UK garden centres, nurseries, landscapers, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers.

Jackson & Perkins - Roses

John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds - Bantam, Connecticut, firm sells gourmet vegetable and herb seeds.

Johnny's Selected Seeds - Albion, Maine.

K. Sahin, Zaden B.V. - "Relatively young, dynamic flower seed company which was established in 1982 by Kees and Elisabeth Sahin." Some of their interesting products include:

Phaseolus vulgaris Yin Yang

Agastache foeniculum Blue Compact

Kelways - "Founded in 1851 making us one of the oldest nursery businesses in the world. Based in the middle of the picturesque Somerset Levels we are known worldwide as the Uk's leading grower of Irises and Peonies."

Kieft Seeds

Krull-Smith Orchids - Elaine and Scott Taylor, Apopka, Florida.

Kuipplanten - Dutch supplier of container and patio plants.

Kurt Bluemel, Inc - Nursery grower and supplier of ornamental grasses, bamboo, perennials, ferns, sedges, rushes and other exotic nursery plant materials.

Lake Country Nursery - Perry, Ohio. Wholesale nursery grower of trees, shrubs, evergreens, ornamental grasses, perennials, vines and ground covers.

Logee's Greenhouses - Danielson, Connecticut

Mailorder Gardening Association

Margery Fish Plant Nursery - East Lambrook Manor, South Petherton, Somerset, UK

Master Garden Products - Bellevue, Washington, firm manufactures and sells cedar wood garden products (using recycled cedar wood as much as possible). Their Hinoki Cedar Series have bug repellent characteristics and a lemon scent aroma.

McClure & Zimmerman - Bulbs

Meadowbrook Nursery - Marion, North Carolina, company specializes in native plants. (704-738-8300)

Monrovia - Azusa, California. "Growers of distinctly better plants"

Mountain Maples - Laytonville, California, firm offers more than 200 varieties of Japanese maples.

Niche Gardens - Chapel Hill, North Carolina nursery specializing in southeastern wildflowers & native plants, perennials, ornamental grasses. (919-967-0078)

Nichols Garden Nursery - Albany, Oregon.

North Creek Nurseries - Landenberg, Pennsylvania

PC Orchids

Park Seed

Plant and Supply Locator [For the Horticulture Industry] - Hutchinson Publishing Corp. provides a plant locator, an events calendar and botanical links for horticultural professionals.

Plant Delights Nursery - Tony Avent's nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina, specializes in unusual perennials. (919-772-4794)

PlantenTuin Esveld Plant Catalogue - Dutch nursery catalog has 10467 different garden plants with over 22,000 images.

Plants of the Southwest - Sante Fe. (505-438-8888)

Prarie Nursery - "Wildflowers & native grasses, native plants and seeds for ecological gardening."

Primrose Path - Nursery in southwestern Pennsylvania (Scottdale) specializes in hybrids and selections in Heuchera, Heucherella, and Tiarella. (Note: Personal experience has found this nursery to be an unreliable source of plants. Despite an e-mail commitment from the owner to provide our garden club with multiple tiarella plants, our check, held for four weeks, was returned, saying the plants were unavailable and without any apology or suggestions on how to find replacements.)

Proven Winners - "International marketing cooperative comprised of some of the world's best propagators."

Renee's Gardens - Felton, California

R.F. Orchids - Nursery in Homestead, Florida owned by Robert Fuchs.

Richters Herb Specialists - Ontario

Roots & Rhizomes - Randolph, Wisconsin

Rosedale Nurseries - Hawthorne, New York (Westchester County)

Der Rosenmeister - Heirloom roses. 190 Seven Mile Drive, Ithaca (607-273-8610). Leon Ginenthal "grows roses from more than a dozen countries, including Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden and Dorea. You can fall in love with them - they won't die on you. He's got drought-tolerant hardy-to Zone 5 roses bred by the late Dr. Robert Bayse of Texas, many of which are thornless, as well as Grifith Buck, Canadian Explorer, and rugosa roses, all of which have made a name for themselves in colder climates." (From "On the Road: Ithaca, New York" by Kathy Purdy, Horticulture Magazine, Special Northeastern Supplement, October/November, 2006. The article also mentions Wilcox General Store, Bedlam Gardens, the Plantsmen Nursery, Cornell Plantations, Ithaca Children's Garden, and Bakers' Acres.) Among the old roses sold are Charles de Mills, Koenigin von Danemark, La Belle Sultane, Madame Hardy, Maidens Blush, Stanwell Perpetual (exceptionally fragrant), Tuscany Superb, and William Lobb.

Roses of Yesterday - Watsonville, California

Roslyn Nursery - Dix Hills, NY, nursery specializing in rare and exotic varieties of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, shrubs, trees, perennials, groundcovers and other ornamental plants (631-643-9347). Closed in 2006?

St. Lawrence Nurseries - Potsdam, New York. Northern Climate Fruit and Nut Trees.

Sakata Seed Corporation - Yokohama, Japan

Schreiner's Iris Gardens - Salem, Oregon.

Seedman.com - "Family owned and operated seed business serving home gardeners, University botanical departments and research facilities worldwide" in Gautier, MS

Seeds of Distinction - Source for unusual, and hard to find seeds from the gardens of the world.

Select Seeds Antique Flowers - Union, Ct. business specializes in heirloom perennials found in cottage and period gardens, chosen for fragrance and cuttings.

Seneca Hill Perennials - Oswego, New York (315-342-5915)

Shady Oaks Nursery - Waseca, Minnesota. "Leading propagator of many new and hard to find perennial plants."

Shanti Bithi Bonsai Nursery - Stamford, Ct. Jerome and Carole Rocherolle

Shepherd's Garden Seeds

Simply Beautiful

Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery - Medford, Oregon, nursery specializes in dwarfs, Alpines, rock garden plants and woodland flora. (503-772-6846)

Spring Meadow Nursery - Grand Have, Michigan. Supplies Sambucus Black Beauty (Sambucus nigra 'Gerda')

Stokes Seed Company - Catalog aimed at commercial farmers and growers

Sunny Border - Kensington, Connecticut

Takii Seed - Kyoto, Japan

Tall Grass Trading Post - Native plants and herbs

Terra Nova Nurseries - Tigard, Oregon

Thompson & Morgan

Twombley Nursery - Monroe, Connecticut

Van Engelen Inc. - Bulbs

Venger's Orchids - Colorado Springs. (719-576-7686)

Vermont Bean Seed Company

Water Garden - With online catalog.

Well-Sweep Herb Farm -Port Murray, New Jersey.

White Flower Farm - Litchfield, Connecticut. See In the Garden: The More the Merrier

by Anne Raver, New York Times, September 23, 2008.

Woodlanders - Aiken, South Carolina firm specializes in rare native and exotic plants. (803-648-7522)

Organizations, Associations and Societies

American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta - Searchable by state and provides address, phone & web site address (when available) of its members.

American Bamboo Society - Barry & Peter Abrahamsen

American Bonsai Society - Brian Corll

American Botanical Council - "Educating the public on the use of herbs and phytomedicinals". Provides an extensive collection of links to educational sites.

American Boxwood Society

Amercan Camellia Society

American Clivia Society

American Community Gardening Association

American Daffodil Society

American Fern Society

American Hemerocallis Society

Americah Herbalists Guild

American Hibiscus Society - Has information on the Tropical Hibiscus

American Horticultural Society - Alexandria, Virginia. Among the AHS Awards are the Great American Gardeners, AHS Book Awards, Past Award Winners. Selected articles and excerpts from American Gardener are available. (See New and Award-Winning Plants for 2002, an article by Carole Ottesen from the January/February 2002 issue.) There is also an interesting collection of links.

American Horticultural Therapy Association

American Hosta Growers Association - Established the Hosta of the Year in 1996. There is a list of retail vendors.

American Iris Society - Site includes list of 100 most popular irises, pictures of award winning irises, and iris classification and growing information.

American Orchid Society - Other orchid organizations include Canadian Orchid Congress

American Peony Society - Has a Peony Checklist

American Rhododendron Society

American Rose Society

American Society of Botanical Artists - Provides links to Web Sites of Members.

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) - Searchable listing of current members, job openings, news and events, publications, information on accredited programs in landscape architecture. LAND Online, an acronym for Landscape Architecure News Digest, is ASLA's newsletter. It provides links to Landscape Architecture in the News and The Dirt (News and info we unearth daily).

American Society for Horticultural Science - See Awards with ASHS Award recipients.. Their publications include HortTechnology,HortScience, and Journal of ASHS.

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA)

Association Belge des Architectes de Jardins et des Architectes Paysagistes - With Member List

Association for Tropical Biology

Association of Professional Landscape Designers

L'Association Française pour la Conservation des Espèces Végétales (AFCEV) - With Member List

Azalea Society of America

Botanical Society of America - Provides access to Plant Science Bulletin.

Botanical Society of the British Isles

British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI)

British Bedding and Pot Plant Association

Calgary Horticultural Society

California Native Plant Society

Canadian Iris Society - With information on the Iris Borer.

Cultural Landscape Foundation

European Bamboo Society

Fleuroselect - International organisation for the ornamental plants industry. There are annual Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winners and Awarded Varieties.

Garden Conservancy - With information on Projects.

Garden Writers Association of America (GWAA) - Has a Speakers Bureau. France has a Association des Journalistes du Jardin et de l'Horticulture

Herb Society of America - Offers Herb Profiles and Guides and a Business Member Directory. The Library provides access to the online catalog.

Hortax - "Small committee of plant taxonomists and horticulturists based in the British Isles with a professional interest in the classification and nomenclature of cultivated plants." The Names of Garden Plants - a brief outline of how cultivated plants are named

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - "Research division of Carnegie Mellon University. We maintain collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files for scientific study."

Hunt Institute: Library

Hunt Institute: Archives Collections List

Hunt Institute: International Exhibition - With Cumulative Index of Artists.

BPH Online - "Fully indexed and searchable database documenting (as comprehensively as possible) periodicals published between 1665 and the present."

Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection

Art Collections - See, for example, "Lupinus minimus'' by Frederick Andrews Walpole (1861-1904)

Institute of Horticulture - UK

International Aroid Society

International Union of Biological Science (IUBS)

International Association for Plant Taxonomy - The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature is available in English , French and Slovak.

International Association of Japanese Gardens

International Camellia Society

International Society for Horticultural Science - "ISHS, the world's leading, independent organization of horticultural scientists." Publisher of the Acta Horticulturae and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. "As well as containing the international rules for naming plants in cultivation, the Code also contains much ancillary information such as lists of special denomination classes, InternationThe full-text of Chronica Horticulturae is available back to March, 1961. Horticulture Research International is also useful.

International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society - Marietta, Georgia

Linnean Society of London

The Linnaean Correspondence - "Prepared under the aegis of the Swedish Linnaean Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University and its library, and the Linnean Society of London, with the collaboration of the Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle."

Linnaeus 2007

Luytens Trust - Information source for care and maintenance of the works of the English garden designer Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944)

Magnolia Society

Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Sponsors of the New England Spring Flower Show.

Massachusetts Nursery & Landscape Association

Mediterranean Garden Society

National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens - U.K.

National Council of State Garden Clubs - Provides an Archive with articles from previous issues of the National Gardener, a categorized collection of links to gardening resources, and a monthly floral arrangement.

National Garden Bureau - With Member Directory

National Garden Month

National Gardening Association - You can Search the Q&A Library of 25,000 questions. There's also a searchable Article Library.

New England Wild Flower Society - Framingham, Massachusetts. Provides access to the following issues of New England Wild Flower: Conservation Notes of the New England Wild Flower Society:

Vol. 1, No. 3 (1997),

Vol. 2, No. 3 (1998),

North American Rock Garden Society

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Sponsors of the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Perennial Plant Association - With information on this year's Perennial Plant of the Year.

Royal Horticultural Society - Site highlights include a search engine, News, Plant of the Month, Around Britain, Plants, Education and Publications. Sponsors of the Chelsea Flower Show held annually in May.(See also Armchair Travel for 70 high-resolution panoramas and BBC Online.)

Royal Swedish Academy - Awards the Crafoord Prize. The 2003 prize was awarded to Carl R. Woese, University of Illinois “for his discovery of a third domain of life . See also Crafoord Foundation.

Seed Savers Exchange - "Saving "heirloom" (handed-down) garden seeds from extinction."

Société nationale d'horticulture de France - The Library, founded in 1827, offers an online catalogue (HORTALIA).

Southern Nursery Association - With searchable OnLine Exhibitor Directory

Vermont Association of Professional Horticulturists

World Conservation Union (IUCN)

World Iris Association

Reference

Amazon.com - Recommended titles for the gardener:

American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (1997)

American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening (2003)

American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (2002)

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses (1998) - By Michael A. Dirr

Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1997)

Ornamental Shrubs, Climbers and Bamboos: Excluding Roses and Rhododendrons (1992) - By Graham Stuart Thomas

Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada (1976) - By Liberty Hyde Bailey

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. (From Bartleby.com.)

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Dictionary of Botanical Epithets - Chuck Griffith. Cordifolia (cordifolius, cordifolium) for example, indicates heart-shaped leaves.

Directory of botanists, plantsmen, landscapers, gardeners and writers of note - Offered by Sisley Garden Tours.

Editors' Choice Plant Guide - Better Homes and Gardens

Floridata - Photographic encyclopedia of landscape plants

Guide to Standard Floras of the World - "An annotatated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists and chorological atlases of different areas" by David G. Frodin, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Metropolitan Plant Encyclopedia - Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St. Louis Code - Adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999. Has an Index of Scientific Names. (International Association for Plant Taxonomy).

Plant Dictionary - Ohio State University

Plant Encyclopedia - Over 1,500 plants, searchable by name or attributes, fully illustrated, from SierraHome Gardening

Plant Fact Sheets - NC State University

Pritzel, G. A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium. Lipsiae 1847-1851. Excellent, standard bibliography on botany with over 10,000 entries, still current today (Besterman, 943).

Pronunciation of Vascular Plant Genera & Families of New England - Compiled by Ray Angelo, Curator of Vascular Plants, New England Botanical Club.

A Short Botanical Glossary - Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium. They also provide links to other Botanical Glosseries.

Timber Press - Gardening and horticulture books

Time Life Plant Encyclopedia - Searchable database contains almost 3,000 species selected for general use in North American horticultural practice, including herbs, bulbs, house plants, wildflowers and roses.

University of Connecticut Plant Database of Treeesm Shrubs and Vines

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map - US National Arboretum web version of the map (USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 1475, Issued January 1990). See also the American Horticultural Society's draft version of the 2003 edition of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Specialized Sites

Adrian Fisher Maze Design - "World's leading maze designer."

Archnet: Images - "Online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world." There is a Digital Library. A keyword search for landscape design retrieves a number of articles and books including The Umayyad Garden: Its Origin and Development by Vincenzo Strika, Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre, 1 (1986), 72-75, Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design edited by Attilio Petruccioli, Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1997, Gardens and Religious Topography in Kashmir by Attilio Petruccioli, Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre 1-2 (1991): 64-73; Mughal Palace Gardens from Babur to Shah Jahan, 1526-1648 by Ebba Koch, 1997. In Muqarnas XIV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. Gülru Necipoglu (ed). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 143-165. Some famous gardens include Bagh-e Fin , Kashan, Iran and Bagh-e Golshan (also known as Afif-Abad), Iran. Archnet has a list of Gardens

Blossom Artist - Profile of Marco Polo Stufano, former director of Horticulture at Wave Hill, Brown Alumni Magazine, September/October 1997.

Bible Plants Site - Lytton John Musselman, Old Dominion University

Bonsai Web

Botanical Index to the Journal of Henry David Thoreau - Exhaustive index to the botanical references in the 1906 edition of Thoreau's journal created by Ray Angelo, an Associate of the Harvard University Herbaria

Bulb.com - Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center (NFIC) provides news, photographs, video and technical information on flower bulbs and garden trends

Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall - Suzanne and Tony Mace

Camellias

Camellia Homepage - Japanese site has over 1,000 images of camellias.

Classic Camellia Illustrations

Chandler & Booth

Berlese

Verschaffelt

The Culture of Camellias - Exhibtion primarily from the Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books, University of South Carolina

Kamelien in Deutschland - Klaus Peper

American Camellia Society and The International Camellia Society

Duchy of Cornwall Nursery - Sells a wide assortment of camellias.

There are images of camellias on Villeroy & Boch plates in Kamelien in Deutschland. Books on camellias include

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Camellias

Camellias: A Practical Gardening Guide

Collection de camellias éléves à Bollwiller, dédiée à Mr. le Professeur A.P. DeCandoll, par Charles Baumann, et par Nap. Baumann. Imprint Bollwiller, 1829-[1835]. Alternate titles: Camellia de Bollwiller; Bollweilerer Camellien-Sammlung by Carl Baumann and Napoléon Baumann, Bollweiller, 1828-35; Collection de camellias élevés à Bollwiller, 4 vol., 1829-1835) 1828, 1831 Lithographisches Institut Engelmann Comp., Mühlhausen 1828-1835. Contains 49 illustrations of camellias from their nursery at Bollweiller. Appeared in German and French editions. See some of the plates at Rare Prints Gallery

Carnivorous Plant Database - Rick Walker

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants - University of Florida

City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes - Vancouver organic gardening collective provides information on such subjects as Composting With Red Wiggler Worms, School Gardens and Horticulture Therapy. The site is searchable.

Cornell Composting - Provides access to a variety of composting educational materials and programs developed at Cornell University.

Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database - "Plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.)."

Culture of Camellias:an exhibition chiefly from the Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books (2000) - Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Database of Asian Plants in Cultivation

- Database of the Quarryhill Botanical Garden hosted by the California Academy of Sciences "provides an inventory of living specimens, held at various institutions throughout North America and Europe, which have originated primarily from collecting expeditions to eastern Asia."

Daylilies Online - Nick Chase

Finnegans Wake Society of New York - Has a A Finnegans Wake Garden: a catalogue of flora in Finnegans Wake by Patricia G. Berger, assisted and edited by Faith Steinberg, is described as "a reference guide to the allusions to plants and trees, apparent and supposed, in the Wake".

Flowers Out of Glass - Article by Nancy Marie Brown (Research/Penn State, Vol. 20, no. 3, September, 1999) about the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at at the Harvard Museum of Natural History created by the glass artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. There is also a 1992 book on the Glass Flowers at Harvard by Richard E. Schultes.

GardenGuides - With Index.

Gardens of Tranquility - Hesham Al-Jehani's description of two Islamic gardens at the 2001 Chelsea Flower Show: Carpet Garden created by Michael Miller (now reconstructed for HRH Prince of Wales at Highgrove House) and The Garden of Tranquility commissioned by His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan. See also Royal Horticultural Society description and plan.

Gesneriad Reference Web - Ron Myhr's site contains informative articles, as well as almost 1,000 high resolution photos of gesneriads, the family which includes African violets, gloxinias, Nematanthus ("goldfish plants"), Aeschynanthus ("lipstick plants") and other attractive tropical plants.

Gothic Gardening - Alice Day developed and maintains this unusual site which offers ideas for theme gardens (which includes Gardening for Bats), Ye Olde Gothick Herball and Gothic Plant Tales.

Harvard University Graduate School of Design - Department of Landscape Architecture

Hawaii's Agricultural Gateway - Collaborative effort on behalf of agriculture in Hawaii.

Home Page for Irises - By David Pane-Joyce

Ikebana International

International Orchid Register Search - Royal Horticultural Society

Japanese Garden - Clifton Olds, Professor of Art History Emeritus, Bowdoin College

Jardins anglo-chinois ou parcs à fabriques - Dominique Césari

Kamelien in Deutschland

KinderGARDEN - An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors."

Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection of the Arnold Arboretum - Includes information on bonsai care.

Lilac Story: Past and Present - Tour the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario which house the world's largest lilac collection.

Mediterranean Climate Gardening Throughout the World - Seán A. O'Hara, in cooperation with the Mediterranean Garden* Society, provides a list of Plants for Mediterranean climates, with illustrations.

National Biological Information Infrastructure - Has information on Invasive Species

Native Plants Journal - "Our goal is to provide technical and practical information on the growing and planting of North American (Canada, US, and Mexico) native plants for restoration, conservation, reforestation, landscaping, roadsides, and so on. Our first issue was printed in January 2000." The publication is searchable.

Northern Gardening - By Terry L. Yockey, a Minnesota Master Gardener.

Orchid Mall - Bob and Lynn Wellenstein, of AnTec Laboratory, Candor, New York, have created this collection of resources on tropical slipper orchids. Other useful orchid resources:

Orchid Mania - Has an index and provides access to Orchids of California, a "quasi-interactive key for the native orchidaceae of California" and to a Directory listing of Orchid Genera.

Parasitic Plant Connection - Dan Nickrent, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Penstemon Website - Andrea D. Wolfe, Associate Professor, Molecular systematics and molecular evolution, University of Oklahoma.

Pete's Pond Page - Pete Orelup's account of his pond creation

Plant Conservation Alliance - Bureau of Land Management has Fact Sheets on Alien Plant Invaders. In their Restoration Experts Directory you can search for local, regional, national and international individuals, organizations, agencies and companies.

Plant Variety Protection Office - Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture whose mission is to administer the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA), "by issuing Certificates of Protection in a timely manner. The Act provides legal intellectual property rights protection to developers of new varieties of plants which are sexually reproduced (by seed) or tuber-propagated."

Plants for a Future - Resource center for rare, edible, medicinal and unusual plants (based in Devon and Cornwall, UK). They offer a Species Database with Mirror site in US.

Plants Toxic to Animals - Mitsuko Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Rare Plants of San Diego County - Craig H. Reiser, April 1994. Arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Hosted by the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Rose Page - Bill Chandler's site includes a glossary, a list of suppliers, links to other resources, and information of old, modern and English roses

Secret Garden - Albert G. Richards, a retired University of Michigan professor, has been creating floral radiographs for over 40 years.

SolGenes Webserver - a U.S.D.A.-funded Genome Database for the Solanaceae, containing information about potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and related species.

Tom Volk's Fungi - Volk is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Especially interesting are the Fungus of the Month pages.

Victora - This site is devoted to water lilies and aquatic plants. Of special interest is the section on Victoria, the giant water platter. There is an index of articles. See also Joseph Paxton's Water Lily, a 30 page electronic document, from Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850 by Michael Conan, Volume 23 in the Dunbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, c2002. Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts

Vita: Saint Fiacre - Brief life of the gardener saint: 600-670 - Richard Marius writes about the Patron saint of gardeners in the July/August 1998 issue of Harvard Magazine.

Wageningen Tulip Portal -

Welcome to My Rose Garden - Site includes over 100 images of roses in Cheryl Netter's Colorado rose garden as well as propagation tips and recipes.

Wildflowers in bloom - Dan Lineberger and Jerry Parsons, Horticulture Program, Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

Wild Ones Handbook: A Voice For The Natural Landscaping Movement - United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program.

Pests and Diseases

Common Names For Plant Diseases - American Phytopathological Society

Cornell Cooperative Extension - Offers fact sheets on Home and Grounds Pests

Digital Librarian: Forest Tent Caterpillar - (Malacosoma disstria Hubner)

Digital Librarian: Insects

Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Forest Insects - National Agricultural Library

Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery - Images of harmful insects include beetles, butterflies & moths, flies and mosquitoes, ticks, plant diseases and damage. Also provides links to related articles. See also Iowa Insect Information Notes

National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS)

Ortho Online

National Plant Board

Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database - Online version of the book published by CAB International.

Virtual Plant & Pest Diagnostic Laboratory - Purdue University

Washinton State University Hortsense - "Home gardener fact sheets for managing plant problems with IPM or Integrated Pest Management."

Weed Images and Descriptions - Rutgers Cooperative Extension

West Virginia University Index of Fruit Disease Photographs, Biology, and Monitoring Information

Wildlife Damage Control - University of Nebraska, Lincoln Cooperative Extension

Research Centers

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research - Cornell University

Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium - Botanical research, conservation, management and use of the Australian flora .

Cornell Department of Horticulture - Has information on the Viburnum Leaf Beetle, Gardening Factsheets, information for Home Gardeners and Horticultural Hot Links

Harvard University Herbaria - A rich resource. Offers access to libraries, research, databases & collections. Houses five research libraries with Archives.The Gray Herbarium Archives includes the papers of the botanist Asa Gray and provides biographies of botanists and gardeners. The Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany also has an archives. Other libraries include the Arnold Arboretum, the Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, the Orchid Library of Oakes Ames, with Archives and the R. Gordon Wasson Archives. There is a strong collection of links to other botany resources. You can also search Hollis, Harvard's online catalog.

Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) - Europe’s largest organic organisation, specialising in organic gardening & food in the UK, and small scale agriculture in developing countries. Provides information on its Heritage Seed Library, and has assembled a collection of links to other organic gardening resources around the world.

Instituto de Botánica Darwinion - Argentina

Landscape Plant Development Center - Mound, Minnesota

National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) - With links to National Germplasm Repositories and their holdings, including the National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, Oregon which is a genebank that preserves invaluable plant genetic resources of temperate fruit, nut, and agronomic crops.

Native Plant Conservation Initiative - Bureau of Land Management

Natural History Museum - London. With Library

Natural Resources Conservation Service - U. S. Department of Agriculture provides information on Backyard Conservation, Soils and their Plant Materials Program.

Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation - Division of the National Park Serivce, its mission is to provide "technical assistance in cultural landscape research, planning, stewardship, and education."

Plant Resources Center - University of Texas at Austin

Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station - Move around inside spherical 360-degree images in the Virtual Reality Tour (QuickTime VR).

Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Series (SULIS) - University of Minnesota Extension Service program covers Design, plant selection, implementation and maintenance.

Swedish Museum of Natural History - Resources dealing with botany include the Linnean herbarium, Linnaeus' cryptogams, Erik Acharius' lichen types, Olof Swartz' lichen types, lichen type database, Cryptogamic Collections Databases, Research, and Virtual Exhibitions.

Temperate Fruit Genebank - National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) Corvallis, Oregon

Texas Aggie Horticulture - Texas A&M. Their Plant Answers Index has a Question Archive as well as Drought Information, recipes and Heroes for Horticulture.

University of Michigan Herbarium - Includes a Fungus Collection, with a searchable database and a Fungus Family Locator and a searchable Bryophyte and Lichen Collection.

Shopping

Authentic Provence - West Palm Beach

Bahco

Dewit Hand Tools - Holland-based forging company makes high quality carbon steel gardening tools including the Cape Cod weeder (product number 3097) and the Dutch handhoe. See also Dewit Gereedschappenfabriek.

Fiskars - Excellent cutting tools (see the Softgrip Bypass Pruning Shears).

Gemplers -Products include the Bahco Horticultural Knife ($19.95), the Wolf Garten Professional Bypass Pruner ($28.50) and the Wolf Garten Diamond Duo Hoe Tool with 2 Tines (attachment) ($9.95).

Goldsmith Birdhouses - Karl Goldsmith, of Rochester, NY, specializes in creative birdhouses. (585-615-6529)

Landscape Forms - Kalamazoo, Michigan, firm sells outdoor furniture and accessories. Hyde Park, designed by Brian Kane in 1995, won the APEX Commendation Award.

Lee Valley Tools - Sells carbon steel garden forks made in England

West Country Gloves - English firm sells high quality gardening gloves.

Subject Guides

Directory of Horticultural Web Sites - Elisabeth C. Miller Library, University of Washington Botanic Gardens

Garden Gate - Karen Fletcher offers "carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world."

Gardening Launch Pad - Jim Parra. "5366 links since 1995."

Internet Directory for Botany - No longer being maintained, but the alphabetical list is still useful.

Landscape Architecture Internet Resources - UC Berkeley Library

Library Resources for Horticulture - South Seattle Community College Library

New York Botanical Garden Library Collections & Resources

Systematic Botany Resources for Reference Librarians - James L. Reveal, Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland.

WWW Virtual Library - Has sections for Gardening, Botany / Plant Biology (Biosciences), Forestry and Ecology (compiled by Anthony R. Brach, Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria).

Trees

Ariel Survey Viewer

American Chestnut Foundation - "Working to restore the American chestnut."

American Forests - You can browse or search the National Register of Big Trees. They also have an Historic Tree Nursery.

Ancient Bristlecone Pine - Leonard Miller's site gives information on the world's oldest living trees.

Arboles Ornamentales - Por José Manuel Sánchez de Lorenzo Cáceres (Asociación Española de Parques y Jardines Públicos, Valencia, Spain).

Arborsmith Studios - Arborsculptor Richard Reames turns living trees into art, architecture and furniture.

Bedgebury National Pinetum - Kent, UK. "Has the finest collection of conifers in the world."

Books

Japanese Maples (2001) - By J. D. Vertrees and Peter Gregory. You can search within this book at Amazon.com. "...one of the preeminent texts in the world for the propagation, identification and cultivation of this exceptionally useful plant." Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post, December 8, 2001.

British Trees - Offers a An Introductory Guide to Native British Trees and provides the full-text of John Evelyn's Silva, first published in 1664.

Dendrome: Forest Tree Genome Database -

Forestry Commission of Great Britain

Hypermedia Forest Insect and Disease Knowledge Base and Diagnosis (HForest) - Canadian Forest Service database

International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) - Has a searchable database of certified arborists.

Musser Forests - "Musser Forests, based in Indiana County, Pa., has been growing quality tree seedlings for over 75 years."

Natural Resources Canada: Canada's Forests

Plant Fact Sheets: Trees - NC State University

Silvics of North America - Russell M. Burns and Barbara H. Honkala, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 654, 1990. "The silvical characteristics of about 200 forest tree species and varieties are described. Most are native to the 50 United States and Puerto Rico, but a few are introduced and naturalized. Information on habitat, life history, and genetics is given for 15 genera, 63 species, and 20 varieties of conifers and for 58 genera, 128 species, and 6 varieties of hardwoods. These represent most of the commercially important trees of the United States and Canada and some of those from Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, making this a reference for virtually all of North America. A special feature of this edition is the inclusion of 19 tropical and subtropical species. These additions are native and introduced trees of the southern border of the United States from Florida to Texas and California, and also from Hawaii and Puerto Rico."

Volume 1: Conifers - 675 pp.

Volume 2: Hardwoods - 877 pp.

TreeBASE - Relational database of phylogenetic information hosted by the University at Buffalo.

USDA Forest Service - National Headquarters.

Site Map

Publication List

Forest Health Protection

Climate Change Atlas for 80 Tree Species of the Eastern US

Mistletoe Center

TreeSearch - "Online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the USDA Forest Service."

USDA Forest Service - St. Paul Field Office - A valuable resource.

Online publications - searchable

Forest Insect and Disease Leaflets - Has numerous photographs and information on hosts, distribution, life cycle, and control.

How to Publications

Silvics of North America

Pest Alerts

Natural Resources

Miscellaneous Forest & Tree Health Publications

Alphabetical list of all their publications

University of Delaware Botanic Gardens: Trees

Westonbirt - The National Arboretum - UK

What Tree is It? - Common trees of Ohio.

WWW Virtual Library: Forestry

Vegetables

Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners - "Detailed descriptions of more than 4,000 vegetable varieties and how other gardeners have rated many of them." Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Webcasts

Harvard University Institute of Politics Forum Archives - Outstanding collection of archived forums includes Biodiversity and Sustainability: How to Forge the Link, a March 3, 2005 lecture by Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor, Washington University, St. Louis.

TED: Ideas worth spreading

Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma - March 2007 (17:31)

Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts

Consuming Landscapes: Parkways in Germany and the United States, 1920-1970 - Tom Zeller, 23 January 2008 [42 minutes].

School Gardens - Constance Carter, 1 October 2007 [17 minutes].

Jim Crawford and Samuel Fromartz Discuss Organic Farming - 23 May 2007 [51 minutes]

Landscape Renovation: New Plantings for the Madison Building Gardens - Matthew Evans, Holly Shimizu, Carl Morgan, 23 March 2006 [52 minutes].

Holly Shimizu: Herbs in the Garden - 28 September 2005

Eric Grissell: Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology - 27 July 2005

P. Allen Smith - 4 October 2003 [35 minutes].

Barbara Damrosch - 4 October 2003

Jim Adams: The Herb Garden at the National Arboretum - 1 March 2003

James A. Duke: A Tale of Two Gardens - 11 June 2001

Scientific American Podcasts

What's In A Latin Name: The Legacy of Linnaeus - "Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author EO Wilson talks about Linnaeus and the continuing effort to classify life on earth. From a talk given at the New York Botanical Garden on November 8th [2007]."

Quest for the Giant Pumpkin - Susan Warren, 31 October 2007.

What's In A Rose: Ethnobotany and the Search for Useful Plants - "Ethnobotanist Nat Bletter talks about his field and his recent article about the new plant family Simulacraceae--the phony plants." 19 September 2007.

WGBH Forum Network - "Audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders." Has archived lectures about Gardens and Landscape Design including:

Facets of Mount Auburn: Horticulture - Daniel J. Hinkley, April 10, 2007.

Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan - Hugh and Mary Dargan, February 22, 2007.

Landscape Design: New Garden Paradise - Dominique Browning, January 19, 2006.

Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement - Judith B. Tankard, June 2, 2005.

Paths of Desire: Passions of a Suburban Gardener - Dominique Browning, April 15, 2004.

Listservs / Discussion Lists

Archives of TAXACOM@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU - Searchable

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