Oregon State University. Landscape Plants: Images, Identification, and Information. Department of Horticulture, 2015. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. < http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/>.

An interesting resource. It focuses on cultivars of different plants and provides key identification words for each of the cultivars. Once you have selected a cultivar, it then provides you with photos. In other words, a great resource if you have a specific cultivar in mind but if you do not, then this resource is not for you! It is also laid out in an older fashioned style and so looking for information makes you feel slightly like you are in the matrix as the font is in blue and black and the pages run on forever. In summary, likely not a resource I would use often for this blog.

Sibley, David. The Sibley Guide to Trees. Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited, 2009. Print.

A great guide on trees in North America. It walks you through taxonomy rules, zones, tree identification terminology, leaves, flowers, fruit, twigs, buds, and bark. Very thorough indeed! The asset to it only focusing on North American trees is that it can go into more detail for each of the families and provides clear, descriptive photos for each tree it talks about. However, the downside is that for the sake of this course, it was only useful some of the time since it only focused on trees in North America. It does a great job of helping you to identify different trees but doesn’t provide any information on their uses and limitations.

UBC Botanical Garden Forums. University of British Columbia, 2015. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. < http://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca>.

A very active forum for gardeners and botanists. You could easily get lost in this website as you scroll through all of the interesting topics. This would be a great resource if you have a particular question you cannot find the answer to or need some clarification on a plant. However, this is not the resource to turn to for generic information as you would spend much too long sifting through all of the different posts to find it. If time was infinite, I think it would be very neat to post asking what people think are the suitable uses and limitations of each of the plants we have studied. The responses would likely be very varied and provide you with a good grasp on the overarching uses and limitations of each of the plants.