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General Collection
The following subject headings are useful to find items:
| Botany |
582.1 |
Native Plants |
582.1/635.9 |
| Chainsaws |
621.93 |
Organic Gardening |
635.0484 |
| First Aid |
616.0252 |
Pesticides |
632.9 |
| Garden Design |
712.6 |
Pests-Garden |
635.049 |
| Gardening |
635 |
Plant Propagation |
631.53 |
| Horticulture |
635 |
Soil Science |
631.4 |
| Landscaping |
712.6 |
Weeds |
632.58 |
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Textbooks & Recommended Readings
Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.
Course texts - two hour loan.
Selected recommended readings - three day loan.
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The Reference Collection
Online Reference books
Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc. (password required off campus).
Credo Reference (formerly XRefer Plus) is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. There are over 225 titles consisting of an aggregate of 2.9 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.
Print Reference books
| Flora of New Zealand |
R581.993 FLO |
| The Reader's Digest gardeners' encyclopedia of plants and flowers |
R635.903 REA |
| The colour dictionary of garden plants : with house and greenhouse plants |
R635.9 HAY |
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Journals
| Consumer Home and Garden |
635 CON |
| Landscape New Zealand |
712 LAN |
| New Zealand Gardener |
635 NEW |
| New Zealand Growing Today |
635 NEW |
| New Zealand House & Garden |
747.2 NEW |
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Databases
A great way to find journal articles is to use an electronic database. Type keywords in the database search window.
EbscoHost
Suite of databases - (Click here to go to the
full Choose database selection page, or click on individual databases
below):(Password required off campus)
- Academic Search Elite
Provides full-text articles from over 1,500 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more.
- Masterfile Premier
Provides full text for over 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
- Professional
Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly
specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including
nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than
200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the
most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the
world.
Gale
Cengage Suite of databases (formerly Thomson Gale) - Gale PowerSearch: Click here to search across all Gale databases at once.
Password
required off campus for any of these:
 Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
A collection of more than 80 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject specific reference sources from Delmar, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.
AGRICOLA - AGRIcultural Online
AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its co-operators. Although AGRICOLA does not contain the material for you to read, it can help you identify what resources may be important to your study. |
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Best Gardening.com - www.bestgardening.com
"Everything for New Zealand gardeners: gardens, feature articles, design ideas, plant notebook, practical gardening, garden events, and much, much more."
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Canadian Gardening.com - www.canadiangardening.com
"Canada's favourite gardening magazine"
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Garden NZ - www.garden-nz.co.nz
Garden design, plants and products, directory, news, garden doctor, tips, etc.
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Garden Open - www.garden-open.com
Look at gardens around the world.
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HortNET (NZ) - www.hortnet.co.nz
An information centre for New Zealand's plant-based industries.
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Landscape.co.uk - www.landscape.co.uk
A website for landscape design, garden design, landscape architecture, and the wider environment.
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Landscape Industries Association of NZ - www.lianz.org.nz
The Landscape Industries Association of New Zealand is an Incorporated Society whose mandate is to represent professionals practising design; construction and maintenance of landscapes.
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MAFnet (NZ) - www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet
MAF is about agriculture, horticulture and forestry, safe food, a protected environment, the wise use of the land, the creation of clean, green product and the economic success of those who produce it.
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NZ Horticulture Industry Training Organisation - www.hortito.org.nz
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