Landscape Design / Horticulture

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Subject Directories

• Librarian's Index to the Internet > Gardening Topics 

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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

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Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) 
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• JSTOR - Select botany journals
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

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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.

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Print Sources

• 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

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OCC Departmental Web Pages

• Auburn Hills Landscape Horticulture

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This page is maintained by Beth Garnsey and was last updated on 9/22/2008.