You can use selected gardening and horticultural databases - all free when you visit the main libraries at Wisley and London.
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Abstracting & indexing databases
Garden Landscape & Horticulture Index
This covers horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design and history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.
It also covers environmentally-sustainable horticultural and design practices. It is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. The database includes article abstracts, but not full text.
GreenFILE
This contains information on all aspects of human impact to the environment. It includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Full text journals
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
The longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants. Each volume contains botanically precise plant portraits by some of the world's leading botanical artists. Texts combine horticultural and botanical information with topics such as history, conservation and economic uses.
Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science
Detailed reports of original research on biotechnology, developmental physiology, environmental stress physiology, genetics and breeding, photosynthesis, postharvest biology, seed physiology, soil-plant-water relationships and statistics.
HortScience
Aims to apprise horticultural scientists and others interested in horticulture of scientific and industry developments and of significant research, education, or extension findings or methods.
HortTechnology
Aims to provide science-based information, promote and encourage an interchange of ideas among scientists, educators, and professionals working in horticulture and provide an opportunity for peer review of practical horticultural information.