Tag: Reference resource

  • Drip Irrigation: for Every Landscape & All Climates

    Drip Irrigation: for Every Landscape & All Climates

    Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and all Climates by Robert Kourik (2009) provides the basics as well as advanced concepts in drip irrigation design for domestic use. This library guide/review provides a description as well as a chapter by chapter summary of this indispensible handbook.

  • Using NatureMaps to identify plant communities

    dnicolle, 2023, Mount Compass Swamp Gum Eucalyptus paludicola, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/192133470

    One of the best uses of NatureMaps is to locate plant communities which pre-existed European settlement. This procedure explains how to set NatureMaps for this purpose, then to use the vegetation key or ID to identify the upper, middle, and lower storey of the plant community.

  • NatureMaps

    NatureMaps

    NatureMaps is an online mapping tool which contains a range of information about the State’s natural resources. It is available for the general public to use to learn and understand more about the physical environment. 

  • Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

    Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

    The ACRA website is a registration portal for plant breeders to apply for registration of a native plant cultivar.

  • Propagating native plants

    Propagating native plants

    This library guide lists a wide variety of media which covers the techniques used in propagation which are best used to propagate a given plant genus or species.

  • The Austraflora A-Z of Australian Plants

    The Austraflora A-Z of Australian Plants

    The Austraflora A-Z of Australian Plants is handbook for learning more about native plant characteristics to help in garden and landscaping selection.

  • Worldcat

    Worldcat

    WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalogue. It allows users to find library resources registered in its database by using simple and boolean search criteria found at any library, be it at a local council, high school, or institution of higher learning such as colleges/TAFE and universities.

  • Australian Native Plants

    Australian Native Plants

    Australian Native Plants has been an important go-to reference for passionate gardeners and landscaping professionals to find information about Native plants and their cultivars for use plant selection.

  • Atlas of Living Australia

    Atlas of Living Australia

    The Atlas of Living Australia website acts as a portal to a database for exploring the natural world, both flora and fauna, of Australia. It also has a vast set of research documentation and images.

  • Seeds of South Australia

    Seeds of South Australia

    Seeds of South Australia website is a portal to a database for providing images plants endemic to South Australia including their distribution within specific geographical regions.