Web Resources

Over the years we have built a collection of hyperlinks to useful web pages which could tremendously help in your studies and ease the pain of finding them.

They are grouped into the following categories:

Agriculture	Floriculture	Pests & Diseases
Arboriculture	Greenhouse	Pesticide Info
Associations	IPM	Plant ID
Botany	Landscape	Soil & Media
Chemistry	Libraries	Turf & Irrigation

Agriculture

• American Crop Protection Association
• BioScience Links
• BC Hot House
• BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food
• (The) Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
• Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System
• Gardening Link
• HORTIDATA Database
• WWW Virtual Library for Agriculture

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Arboriculture

• Davey Tree Expert Company
• FAO,Forests and Forestry
• Forestry Images
• Information About Trees
• Tree Link
• UBC Forestry
• International Society of Arboriculture (Pacific Northwest Chapter)
• National Arborist Association
• Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative

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Associations

• BC Landscape and Nursery Association ( BCLNA)
• Canadian Nursery and Landscape Association( CNLA)
• BC Greenhouse Growers' Association ( BCGGA)
• Western Canada Turfgrass Association ( WCTA)
• United Flower Growers' Association ( UFGA)
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ( AAFC)
• BC Institute of Agrologists
  (BCIA)
• Industry Training Authority of BC ( ITABC)
• Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative

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Botany

• The Ohio State University Plant Facts Database
• Virtual Library

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Chemistry

• ChemFinder

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Floriculture

• American Institute of Floral Designers
• Flowers Canada
• National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies
• Professional Florists Network
• Flora Source
• Flowers-by-design
• Flower Design Library
• N C State Univ. Commercial Floriculture
• The American Floral Endowment

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Greenhouse

• BCGGA

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IPM

• Association of Natural Bio-control Producers
• Biological Control(Cornell University)
• Biological Control Virtual Information Center
• Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
• Florida's National IPM Network
• IPM Access
• IPM at Iowa State University
• UC Davis IPM Online
• North Carolina National IPM Network
• Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA)
• Pest Management-Related Sites
• Suppliers of Beneficial Organisms of North America

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Landscape

• Association of Professional
  Garden Designers

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Libraries

• Kwantlen
• UBC
• SFU
• Vancouver P.L.
• AgriWeb Canada
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• CIA World Factbook
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• World Digital Library-Berkley

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Pesticide

• EXTOXNET
• Label and MSDS Management System
• Pesticide Education Resources

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Pests & Diseases

Diseases:

• Plant Disease Facts
• Plant Disease Fact Sheets

Pests:

• Arthropoda
• Entomology - Foliage Plants
• Insect Identification Fact Sheets
• Mayflies-Ephemeroptera

Beneficial Insects:

• Biological Control Virtual Information Center
• Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
• Insect and Related Pests
• IOBC
• Koppert Biological Systems
• Suppliers of Beneficial Org.
• The Pollination page
• Biological Control UCR
• Biobest.be

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Plant ID

Course Supplements:

• HORT 1255 PLNT ID II - plant list - adobe.pdf
• Master Plant List - excel.xls
• Plant Database

External Links:

• Flowering Plant Gateway
• Flower Image Library
• Photo Library
• PlantSearch
• Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery

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Soil and Soilless Media

• Soils and Substrates

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Turf & Irrigation

Equipment:

• Jacobsen
• John Deere
• Toro 

Turf Management

• National Sports Turf Managers Association

Irrigation:

• Center for Irrigation Technology
• Micro Irrigation Links
• Rain Bird Irrigation Co.
• WWW Virtual Library on Irrigation

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Weeds

• Weeds BC

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