Landscape Design / Horticulture
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Internet Sites
- Green Landscaping with Native Plants - From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Master Gardener > Green Tips Click on "Hort Links", from Michigan State University Extension.
- Michigan State University Extension > Home & Garden
- Planning the Home Landscape
- PlantFacts - Searchable resource on horticulture from Ohio State University.
- Plants Database - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture provides standardized information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
- U.S. National Arboretum Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Articles: Indexes and Full Text
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- Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) 1980s - present. Articles are either full-text or citations/abstracts. Wide variety of subjects including social sciences, humanities, education, science, and technology.
- Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection (Infotrac) Nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.
- JSTOR (select botany journals) Digital archive of full-text scholarly journals. Does not include full-text of current issues (most titles withhold full-text for five years or more).
Selected Ebooks
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- Tenenbaum, Frances. Taylor's Dictionary for Gardeners: the Definitive Guide to the Language of Horticulture. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1997.
- To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
- botany
- gardens -- design
- horticulture
- landscape architecture
- plants, ornamental
- Selected Reference Books
- Austin, Richard L., et al.
Graphic Standards for Landscape Architecture.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinholt, 1986.
AH Reference SB 472 .G73 1986 - Bricknell, Christopher and Judith D. Zuk, eds.
American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of
Garden Plants. New York: DK Pub., 1997.
AH, OR, RO Reference HSB 403.2 .A45 1997 - Dirr, Michael. Dirr's
Hardy Trees and Shrubs: an Illustrated Encyclopedia. Portland, OR: Timber Pr., 1997.
AH Reference SB 435.5 .H37 - Lord, Tony.
Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations. Toronto:
Firefly, 2002.
AH Reference SB 454.3 .C64 L57 - Shoemaker, Candice A., ed.
Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
AH Reference SB 465 .E63 2001
- Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
- QK Botany
- SB Plant Culture and Horticulture
- SB 317 - 450 Horticulture
- SB 450 - 467 Gardens and Gardening
- SB 469 - 476 Landscape Gardening
- SB 599 - 990 Diseases and Pests, including treatment and control
OCC Departmental Web Pages
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This page is maintained by Beth Garnsey and was last updated on
9/22/2008.
