Resources

Reference

Libraries

Explore services and links provided by other libraries, including some online library catalogs.

• Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - Library at Carnegie Mellon University
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• New York Botanical Garden Library
• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's McLean Library
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Library and Archives. Information about the library and Kew library catalog.
  National Agricultural Library Information about NAL.
  Search AGRICOLA, the NAL catalog of books and articles.
• San Francisco Public Library General information, catalog and SFPL Internet links.
  
• University of California, Berkeley Libraries
  Link directly to MELVYL catalog for the entire UC system, and some additional libraries, including the California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
• Stanford University Libraries
  Socrates catalog
• Library of Congress. Information about LC.
  Library of Congress catalog

Document Suppliers

• Ingenta Allows you to search (for free) for academic and popular journal articles, and order (not for free) articles, using your credit card number at your own risk. You do not need to have a password or profile to search.

Copyright information

• U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress.
• Copyright Clearance Center provides information about copyright and copyright fees for a huge number of publications.

Horticultural Resources

Arboreta and Botanical Gardens

Lists of Gardens

• American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta -- Member Gardens Fill out the search form to link to any type of garden in the AABGA database -- mostly North American.
• Botanique's List of Gardens, Arboreta and Nature Sites of the U.S. and Canada links you to the home pages of gardens on the web.
• Internet Directory for Botany: Arboreta and Botanical Gardens links to home pages of gardens in all continents . The most comprehensive international list!
• Gardenvisit.com: a garden finder for the leading garden countries

Individual Gardens (for comprehensive lists, see above):

S.F. Bay Area and nearby counties

• Filoli, in Woodside, California
• Gardens at Heather Farm, Walnut Creek
• Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. A brief history, by Erik Sumiharu Hagiwara-Nagata
• Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, in Santa Rosa
• Quarryhill Botanical Garden
• Regional Parks Botanic Garden at Tilden
• Ruth Bancroft Garden, in Walnut Creek
• University of California Botanical Gardens, Berkeley
• University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum

Favorites from farther away

• Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
• Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Botanical Image Collections

These searchable collections of photographs are wonderful learning tools. However, if you plan to reproduce or use any of these images, please contact the database provider or copyright holder.

Extensive lists of botanical and natural history photo collections:


• Internet Directory for Botany: Images, a wonderful resource provided by the Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, links to hundreds of botanical image and photograph collections.

California flora


• Cal Photos: Plants from the Berkeley Digital Library Project, is an image database searchable by common name, scientific name, family name, or location. It contains over 46,000 plant images.
• Photo Gallery of the California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

General teaching collections:


• Plants Database by United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• Vascular Plant Image Library from Texas A&M University.

Botanical illustration:


• Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustration

Horticultural Clubs, Societies, etc.

• American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta is the professional association for public gardens in North America, supporting the public horticulture community in its mission to study, display and conserve plants.
• International Asclepiad Society
• American Bamboo Society, includes information about the Northern California Chapter.
• American Begonia Society
• American Bonsai Society
• American Clivia Society
• American Society of Botanical Artists
• Bromeliad Society International
• Cactus & Succulent Society of America, Inc.
• California Horticultural Society
• California Native Plant Society
• Marin County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
• Milo Baker Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, from Sonoma County
• Napa Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
• North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
• Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
• Yerba Buena Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
• International Camellia Society
• International Carnivorous Plant Society
• American Daffodil Society
• Northern California Daffodil Society
• American Fern Society
• American Fuchsia Society 
• International Geranium Society, Inc.
• American Gloxinia & Gesneriad Society
• American Horticultural Society
• American Iris Society
• North American Lily Society, Inc.
• Mediterranean Garden Society, Inc.
• Mycological Society of San Francisco
• American Orchid Society
• American Rose Society
• North American Rock Garden Society is for gardening enthusiasts interested in alpine, saxatile, and low-growing perennials. It encourages the study and cultivation of wildflowers that grow well among rocks, whether they originate above treeline or at lower elevations.
• Western Horticultural Society

Horticultural Suppliers

These sites contain lists of suppliers.

• Gardenscape's Gardening Companies on the WWW
• Yahoo's list of Nurseries
• Yahoo's list of Seed Suppliers
• Yahoo's list of Garden Tool Suppliers

Launch-pads for more Horticultural Information

• GardenTraveler a portal to botanical gardens and arboreta in America.
• Bay Area Gardener provides information about local garden events, suppliers, garden societies, etc.
• The Garden Gate has a midwestern focus, but includes links to educational materials, other Internet resources, etc.
• GardenNet provides links to magazines, catalogs, a "Travel and Events" section, and more!
• GardenScape provides information from and for the gardening, landscape, and nursery industries.
• The Horticultural Web is sponsored by the horticultural industry. This site provides links to information for home gardeners, floriculture hobbyists, landscape architects, and more.
• Internet Directory for Botany, from the Botany Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, provides links to thousands of international resources in botany.
• Mediterranean Climate Gardening
• Plant Tracker, from Plants for a Future, is a database for ethnobotanical information. Search by name of plant or by type of use, e.g. anything from adhesives to wicks.
• Wild-flowers.com provides a wealth of links to resources for wildflower enthusiasts in every state.
• GardenWeb provides links to gardening forums, mail order directories, seed and plant exchanges, etc.