Clearinghouse of Professional Information

Gardening Resources

This section includes links to support our EXCEL courses, especially the collection development course and the on-line "Electronic Sources of Information". Students can use this selection of links to complete their assignments.

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General Resources

• Better Homes and Gardens Gardening Home Page
• Botany.Com, the Encyclopedia of Plants.
• GardenGuide: a growing resource for gardeners
• Horticultural Dictionary (National Gardening Association) includes more than 15,000 main entries, including an extensive selection of plants and their varieties, fruits, herbs, vegetables, botanical terms, pests, diseases, pesticides, fertilizers, soils, tools and materials, and techniques
• Indoor Gardening (Canadian Gardening)
• Northern Gardening: Northern Gardening is a practical resource for all gardeners--especially those in a northern climate, from a Minnesota Master Gardener
• Tree are Good Tree Care Consumer Information (International Society of Arboriculture)

Canadian Gardening

• Canadian Gardening: from one of Canada's top gardening magazines
• Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System
• ICanGarden: the Canadian Internet Gardening Resource, from Alberta, includes a very extensive list of Canadian sites
• Invasive Plants of Canada: from Canadian Botanical Conservation Network
• Zone Map of Canada (IGarden)

Ontario Gardening

• Gardening in Southern Ontario
• Ontario Master Gardener Telephone Hotlines: call locally with gardening questions
• Ontario Horticultural Association
• Ontario Trees and Shrubs
• Royal Botanical Gardens (Hamilton ON)

Plant Databases

• A to Z Plant Finder (Better Homes and Gardens)
• The Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (Botany.Com) The Plant Encyclopedia provides information about each plant or flower including a general description, methods and requirements of cultivation for each plant or flower, such as indoor or outdoor planting, soil and temperature requirements, pruning, and other important details such as, the means of propagation (seeds, cuttings, division, etc.), and the different varieties and hybrids of each plant or flower. easy to use directory of flowers and plants includes information on annuals, bulbs, cactus, succulents, fruit, grass, water plants, herbs, spices, houseplants, perennials, shrubs, bushes, trees, vegetables, vines, crawlers, wild flowers, pest control, plant diseases and a helpful plant & flower dictionary also called a Botanical Dictionary
• Canada Poisonous Plants Information System Search by botanical name and common name
• Plants for a Future: contains details of nearly 7000 plants, all of which are either edible, have medicinal properties or have some other use such as fibers, oils or soaps. For each plant the database contains details of the uses of the plants, as well as information of the environment it will grow in and cultivation details.

(as of June 9 2009 )