Plants: Science and Cultivation Resources

The intention for this resource is to link to

• general information about planting, transplanting, pruning that applies to any plants, and
  
• dictionaries and glossaries to provide the vocabulary to ask questions or understand botanical texts.

GardenProfessors.com
The Garden Professors™ - Advancing the science of gardening and other stuff since 2009. This is a blog written by horticulturists on seemingly all aspects of the science of gardening.

Link location The Garden Professors™
Submitted by wcutler
Submitted date 2019 Sep 29; last confirmed 2019 Sep 29

Glossaries and Dictionaries from PIC
The Plant Information Center of the University of North Carolina, the North Carolina Botanical Garden and the UNC Herbarium has a page with links to two botanical dictionaries and a technical plant glossary.

Link location Plant Information Center - Glossaries
Submitted by wcutler
Submitted date 2019 Sep 29; last confirmed 2019 Sep 29

Grow Green Guide

The GrowGreen website is the work of Metro Vancouver (previously the GRVD), in collaboration with UBC Botanical Garden. It opens with features on Designing your space and Finding the right plant. The Green Thumb News page has several articles on various aspects of gardening, including one by Douglas Justice on called Why Grow Trees? The article is more than that, with quite a good description of how to plant trees.
https://growgreenguideblog.ca/

Link location Grow Green Guide Home
Submitted by wcutler
Submitted date 2019 Sep 22; last confirmed 2019 Sep 22

Horticultural Myths
Linda Chalker-Scott, of Washington State University Extension Division (and a member of the Garden Professors, see separate entry) has many articles on science-based gardening. Her site also has several videos under the Informed Gardener link on the sidebar.

Link location Linda Chalker-Scott | Washington State University
Submitted by wcutler
Submitted date 2019 Sep 29; last confirmed 2019 Sep 29

How to Plant a Tree
This video by UBCBG's Douglas Justice was filmed for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, but the information applies much more broadly. Forum member Margot commented, where this was originally posted, with a link to a good companion piece by Garden Professors (Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott's and Jim Downer): Problems with Planting Trees

Link location
Submitted by wcutler
Submitted date 2019 Jun 25; last confirmed 2019 Jun 25

Planting Fact-Sheet
This one-page sheet is entitled "Horticultural techniques for successful plant establishment ". It was written by Linda Chalker-Scott and links to the the Horticultural Myths entry above.

Link location
https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/Planting-fact-sheet.pdf
Submitted by Ron B
Submitted date 2019 Sep 29; last confirmed 2019 Sep 29