Useful Links
LINKS TO INTERESTING WEB SITES FOR GUIDES
(Many links came from a 2012 presentation by the Librarian - contact us to add your favourite sites)
British Columbia and Pacific Northwest USA
Canada
USA
Great Britain
Special Interest
Bamboo:
Bulbs:
Ferns:
Horticultural Therapy:
Botanical Dictionaries
Pronunciation Guides:
General Searches
Historical
Literature
Index to American Botanical Literature
Medicine Wheel and First Nations
Whitford VanDusen Bio
British Columbia and Pacific Northwest USA
- Alpine Garden Club of BC
- E-Flora BC
- Invasive Species Council of British Columbia
- Master Gardeners
- Native Plant Society of British Columbia
- Paghat’s Garden
- Tree Book : Learning to Recognize Trees of British Columbia
- UBC Botanical Garden Botany Photo of the Day
- VDBG Tree of the Month
Canada
USA
- Arnold Arboretum
- Center for Plant Conservation
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Monrovia Nursery Plant Catalog - Includes growing and historical information for thousands of plants
- Plant Information Online – University of Minnesota Libraries
- Silvics of North America – USDA
Great Britain
- Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
- Plantilus - Database for plants and plant history
- RHS Web Site - Includes plantfinder online, gardening advice etc.
- RHS Horticultural Database
- The Plant List
Special Interest
Bamboo:
Bulbs:
Ferns:
Horticultural Therapy:
Botanical Dictionaries
- Botanical Dictionary (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Botanical Names for California Plants (excellent resource for stories; infomation is not strictly linked to California)
- Botany Word of the Day
- Dendrology (Tree) Names
- Plant and Flower Dictionary
- Plant Glossary
- Plant Names - Gledhill
Pronunciation Guides:
- Missouri Botanic Garden's Plant Finder provides audio pronunciation for each plant name.
- Horticulture Magazine pronunciation guide (no audio)
- Botanary, the Botanical Dictionary (no audio)
General Searches
Historical
- Complete work of Charles Darwin online
- Plant Explorers
- Plant Hunters in the Northeast
- Plant People Galore - short biographies of important people in the plant world
- Rare books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
Literature
Index to American Botanical Literature
Medicine Wheel and First Nations
Whitford VanDusen Bio