This list of valuable resources can help landscape professionals with specimen identification, connecting with others in the landscape community or directing clients to sites and gardens for inspiration. If you have a favorite resource and would like to share it with others, please let us know and we can include it in our list.
California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers
Trade organization that promotes the nursery, lawn and garden industry. Includes gardening resources, event and career information.
California Landscape Contractors Association
The California Landscape Contractors Association is a non-profit trade organization of licensed landscape and landscape-related contractors.
Association of Professional Landscape Designers
The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) is an international organization with a mission to advance the profession of landscape design and to promote the recognition of landscape designers as qualified and dedicated professionals.
American Society of Landscape Architects
The Society’s mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.
American society of Consulting Arborists
The industry’s premier professional association focusing solely on arboricultural consulting by providing a comprehensive, objective viewpoint to the diagnosis, appraisal and evaluation of arboricultural issues.
California Native Plant Society
The CNPS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of California native plants through science, education, and conservation.
California Horticultural Society
An educational, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together gardeners and garden professionals to share experiences.
In addition to being considered one of the finest gardening magazines in the US, they also host a variety of events, lectures and educational opportunities including regional symposia and travel tours throughout the world.
Software references featuring plant pictures and data designed for landscapers, nurseries, garden centers, and educational resources.
A gardening launch pad and starting point for all your electronic gardening needs.
Botanique is the portal to over 2700 gardens, arboreta, and nature sites for the USA and Canada.
San Francisco Botanical Gardens
Features a spectacular array of plants from the world’s Mediterranean and mild temperate climates, to high-elevation tropical cloud forests.
American Garden Archives of Smithsonian Institution
The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) currently documents over 6,350 gardens throughout the United States from 1870′s to the present including: written documentation, drawings, plans and business files.
American Horticultural Society
Connect to great gardens around the world, gardening education for all levels of skill, sources of information on any garden subject imaginable, and a community of gardeners eager to share their experiences, other great gardening events and activities, and much, much more.
American Public Gardens Association
Professional association for public gardens in North America. Information for members and the public, with a featured garden.
Inspiring garden design with thousands of plants, trees, shrubs and flowers from garden designers and botanical gardens.
History of garden design beginning with the pools and hanging plants of the Egyptians and Persians.
Landscape Architecture Virtual Library
Landscape Architecture Professional Practice (UC Berkeley, Library)
Collects and studies trees, shrubs, and other plants from around the world; features searchable plant information database, educational programs
The Landscape Institute of The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
The Landscape Institute at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University continues to thrive as part of the arboretum.
