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Horticulture

This guide lists selected online, electronic and print information sources available to Kwantlen Faculty, students and staff. Check the Library Catalogue or the Research Databases to find additional resources at Kwantlen.

Other Kwantlen Library Subject Guides that may be of interest to Horticulture students:
Greenhouse Industry in Canada


Journal & Article Indexes Books
The Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist .

Horticulture Indexes

Other Useful Indexes

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide .


Selected Journals & Magazines

Cloverdale=C, Langley=L, Richmond=R, Surrey=S, Online=O

  • Canadian Garden Centre - L
  • Canadian Gardening -L,O
  • Canadian Organic Grower - L
  • Canadian Journal of Botany - O
  • Fine Gardening - L
  • Floraculture International - L
  • Garden Design - L
  • Garden: Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society - L
  • Gardens Illustrated - L
  • Gardens West
  • GM PRO: Greenhouse Management & Production - L
  • Golf Course Management - L
  • Greenmaster - L
  • Green Places - L
  • Green Profit - L
  • Greenhouse Canada - L
  • Greenhouse Grower - L
  • Grower Talks - L
  • Hortscience - L
  • Journal of Arboriculture - L,O
  • Journal of Environmental Horticulture - L
  • Journal of Turfgrass and Sports Surface Science - L
  • Landscape Architecture - L
  • Living Architecture Monitor - L
  • Organic Gardening - L,O
  • Plant & Soil - O
  • Plant Disease - L
  • Plant Species Biology - O
  • Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses - L
  • Sportsturf - L
  • Turf Line News - L

Important Books

DVDs and Videos

Subject Headings

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

  • Arboriculture
  • Botany
  • Greenhouse Management
  • Hydroponics
  • Landscape Gardening
  • Organic Farming
  • Organic Gardening
  • Insect Pests - Biological Control
  • Plant Propagation
  • Pruning
  • Soil Science
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Turfgrasses
  • Urban Ecology

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

QH 540-541.5: Ecology
QK 5-495: Plant Biology, Botany, Botanical Names, Plant ID
S 1-954: Agriculture
S 590-599.9 / S 622-627: Soils and Soil Conservation
SB 1-124: Plant Culture, Seeds, Propagation
SB 317.5-319: Horticulture
SB 320-413: Gardening, Garden Plants
SB 415-416: Greenhouse Production
SB 423-434: Annuals, Bulbs
SB 433: Turfgrass Management
SB 434: Perennials
SB 435: Trees, Shrubs
SB 438-457: Natural Gardening, Organic Gardening, Gardening
SB 457.3: Garden and Landscape Design
SB 599-990.5: Diseases, Pests, Pesticides
TH 375-5313: Landscape Construction, Hardscaping
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Web Resources

General Websites

Plant ID and Information

Greenhouse Production

Organic Methods

TIP : Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you.

Associations

Landscape Design

Turfgrass

Integrated Pest Management

Sustainability

Citation Styles

Suggest a Purchase

Updated by: Allison Richardson , Horticulture Liaison Librarian
Updated: August 4, 2010