Gardening

Online Databases - Resources Requiring Login (Library card and password)

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Centre - This resource provides comprehensive full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today including: arts & crafts, collecting, games and electronics, model building, needlework, and scrapbooking. It includes access to over 1000 magazine and books, over 720 videos, more than 160 hobby profiles, and over 3000 recipes from various collections. This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, Quilter's World, and many more!

Subject Guides - Open Resources (no login required)

In the Library

Gardening magazines held at GVPL 

General Gardening Resources

Canadian Gardening Magazine Online

Canadian Organic Growers 

 I Can Garden - Canada's largest Internet gardening resource site for all levels of gardeners, both amateur and professional.

Gardening Catalogues

PlantFiles - PlantFiles is the largest plant database in the world, with information and photos for 179,817 different plants.

Seeds of Diversity: Canada's Heritage Seed Saving Network - Non-profit group of gardeners who save seeds from rare and unusual garden plants to help preserve biodiversity.

The Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre

Native Plants

Native Plant Society of British Columbia - Encourages knowledge, appreciation, responsible use, and conservation of BC's native plants and habitats.

Drought Tolerant Gardening - Resources & lists of native plants for this region from the CRD water conservation program.

Victoria Gardening Clubs

Native Plants Study Group

Vancouver Island Bonsai Group

Victoria Horticultural Society

Victoria Orchid Society