Resources
Gardens, groups and great websites.
Trade Organizations
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. GardensSan 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.Plant Research
California Horticultural Society
An educational, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together gardeners and garden professionals to share experiences.