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Introduction
This page collects resources focused on Ornamental Horticulture. Below, you will find a curated selection of recommended books and e-books covering a wide range of Horticulture topics, as well as links to valuable data and statistics related to the field.
The books below are just a starting point! To find related material through our catalog, URI Libraries Search, try terms like Landscape, Urban, Environmental, Horticulture to find additional relevant resources on your own!
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Recommended Books & eBooks
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Plants and Planting on Landscape Sites
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Call Number: Carothers Library Stacks SB472.45 .T46 2016ISBN: 9781780646183Publication Date: 2016This book provides concrete advice along with practical examples for each stage of a typical project. It contains sections on: the landscape site; selecting, assessing and purchasing plants; understanding nursery practice; forms and types of transplant traded; seeds and direct seeding; pre-planting site work; transplanting; and care in the establishment phase. -
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781032409955Publication Date: 2023This book explores the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via traditional and innovative mechanisms across a range of sites. It pushes concepts of cultivation and horticulture into underexplored spatial, ontological, and wellbeing territories. -
A Designer's Guide to Seeing
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781138586802Publication Date: 2022This text provides introductions on each of the five senses, along with exercises that demonstrate how to observe, record, and visualize them. It aims to help the reader understand and ultimately create multisensorial spaces that are inclusive for all.
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Climate-Wise Landscaping
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Call Number: Carothers Library Stacks SB473 .R395 2018ISBN: 9780865718883Publication Date: 2018This book covers the practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home. Some topics include: Working actively to shrink our carbon footprint through mindful landscaping and gardening; creating cleaner air and water; increasing physical comfort during hotter seasons; supporting birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife. -
Sustainable Horticulture
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780323918619Publication Date: 2022This book covers challenges and how microbial based bio inoculants are broadly used in horticulture to mitigate the challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses. It provides an important contribution on how to apply efficient beneficial microbes (microbial inoculants) for a sustainable society. -
The Biodiversity Gardener
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780691245553Publication Date: 2023This book presents a habitat-driven and evidence-based approach, describing how any gardener can unlock the wildlife potential of their plot and enjoy the satisfaction of watching it become home to a rich array of native species, including butterflies, wildflowers, grasshoppers, amphibians, and fungi. It explains the ecological imperative of adopting this approach.
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Urban Horticulture
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781771884242Publication Date: 2017This book provides background on key issues in the growing field of urban horticulture. Some of the topics included are: What is Green Infrastructure?; The Benefits of Green Infrastructure; Planning Issues; and Urban Home and Community Gardening. -
Urban Horticulture: Necessity of the Future
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781838805128Publication Date: 2020This book covers a wide array of topics about urban horticulture. It is a great reference for those concerned with urban horticulture, city planning, biodiversity, and the sustainable development of horticultural resources. -
Urban Horticulture
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1837694877Publication Date: 2023This text is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of urban horticulture. It aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on urban horticulture and sustainable gardening in cities.
Online Resources
Here are some freely available websites relating to ornamental horticulture.
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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”
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Botanicus Digital LibraryBotanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
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Nursery and Seed CatalogsThe New York Botanical Garden’s The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the most comprehensive botanical and horticultural library in the Americas, has cataloged all 58,000 items in its Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection and digitized the complete contents of 1,400 catalogs printed before 1923 and in the public domain. The collection, one of the largest and most important of its kind in the United States, provides some of the earliest information available on the history and development of botany, horticulture, and commercial agriculture in the country.
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International Plant Names IndexThe International Plant Names Index (IPNI) provides nomenclatural data (spelling, author, types and first place/date of publication) for the scientific names of vascular plants from family to infraspecific ranks.
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Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany"Our mission is to discover the diversity of plant life in marine and terrestrial environments, to describe this diversity, to interpret the evolutionary origin of this diversity, and to explain the processes responsible for this diversity. In addition, we aim to understand how humans are affected by and have altered plant diversity on the planet. Our plant collections total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world."
