Horticulture

Subject Specialist

Eileen Tisler

Broadmeadows Campus Librarian
Phone:	(03) 9279 2598
Email:	etisler@kangan.edu.au

Highly Recommended Reference Resources

Botanica's Trees and shrubs - R 635.97603 BOT
Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants - R635.96760994 ELL
Horticulture Australia: the Complete Reference of the Australian Horticultural Industry - R 635 HOR
Noxious Weeds of Australia - R632.50994 PAR
Smart Gardener's Guide to Common Names of Plants - R 635.014 SMA

Websites

Australian Standards
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA)
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Australian Plants Society
Centre for Plant Biodiversity & Australian National Herbarium
CSIRO food and farming - crops, forestry, pastures, soil management
Department of Sustainability & Environment
Gardening Australia - ABC
Global Garden (full text magazine)
Horticulture Australia
Nursery Industry Association of Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Sustainable Gardening Australia
Weed Society of Victoria
OH&S online videos - SafetyCare Montie has many safety programs which can be viewed, topics include fire awareness, personal protection, manual handling.

Catalogue

Search Library Catalogue - enter specific topics (e.g. weeds, soils, landscape gardening, fruit, pesticides) in the keyword search box or look directly on the shelves at these numbers:

Keywords	Shelf numbers
MDrought tolerant plants	635.9525
Gardening - Australia	635.0994
Landscape design	712.6
Native plant gardening - Australia	635.95194
Plant diseases - Australia	635.0490994
Pruning	631.542
Soils - Australia	631.4994
Water gardens	635.9674
Weeds	632.580994

Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines

These two databases give you online access to thousands of journals with many in your field of interest. Search an entire database using keywords or search journals individually.

EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre

Useful search terms include: Gardening, Plants - Habitat, Pruning, Vegetation - Management, Water use

Titles include: Garden center magazine, garden retail, Horticulture

Infotrac: General OneFile

Titles include: Garden design, Garden guide, Landscape and Irrigation, Landscape management

(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)

Contact your subject specialist to book an online database training session or click on EBSCOhost or click on Infotrac (Power Search)

Magazines

Australian Horticulture - 635.0994 AUS
Choice - 640.7305 CHO
G Magazine - 363.7052505 GTH
Gardening - Australia 635.0994 GAR

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online offers links to a variety of subject-specific resources