San Marcos Growers

http://www.smgrowers.com/index.asp

The website is made by a plant nursary in Califonia. Most of the plants in this website is common is Califonia. However, there a still some overlap between the plants in Califonia with the plants in Vancouver because of the coastal climate.

The tree species in the website is limited but there are more shrub and grass. The pictures are clear. The maintaince of a plant is also elaborate.

Plant Lust

http://plantlust.com/genus_index/A/

There are photos and description by different people for each plants, which is very helpful to me to learn the most outstanding characristic of the plant.

Plant type, growing conditions and features are shown in the website, although very concise. Useful cultivars are also shown in the website, but most of them don’t have pictures.

R.G. Hosie, Native TREES of Canada

The native plants which are hard to find elsewhere is easily found in this book. It has the picture and description of the pictures for each plants. The features of the plants are clearly shown from the pictures. The diagrams of distribution are also very helpful, because it shows the preferred climate of the plant intuitively.