Research Guides: Master Gardeners: Flowers

Information on Flowers

This page provides information on annual and perennial flowers as well as information on specific species of flowers.

Please note that some of these resources may require a UK LINKBLUE ID and password, or they can be accessed by visiting any UK Library.

Academic Search Complete
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
Agricola
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Citations and abstracts of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Ninety percent of the records describe journal articles and book chapters, and the remaining ten percent describe monographs, series, microforms, audiovisuals, maps, theses, patents, software, and technical reports.
InfoKat Discovery
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InfoKat Discovery allows you to quickly search multiple UK library resources simultaneously, including books, journal articles, dissertations, government documents, archives and special collections, images, maps, videos, music and open access content. InfoKat Discovery does NOT include all of the journal articles available through our databases.
Plant Management Network
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Web of Science Core Collection
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Web of Science Core Collection indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines.

Kentucky Garden Flowers
Provides a Plant List for Kentucky Gardens as well as Selection Guides for sun gardens, shade gardens, containers, water gardens, ground cover flowers, and herb gardens. A common names and scientific names index is also available.
Edible Flowers
This publication provides an introduction to edible flowers as well as plant selection, marketing, and economic considerations of growing them.
Wild about Wildflowers
This UK Cooperative Extension publication introduces information on Kentucky wildflowers, why they should be grown, types, conservation, and gardening with wildflowers.
Home Flowers
UK Dept. of Horticulture pubications

Annual Flowers
Provides introduction information on Annual Flowers. Including an explanation of terms and a list of commonly found ones in Kentucky Gardens.
Geraniums for Kentucky Gardens
Provides general information about Geraniums; including garden performance, plant care, diseases, and recommendations.

Perennials for Sunny Locations
This publication provides introduction information on perennials. Including pest management, an explanation of terms, and a chart with names and characteristics of perennials.
Perennials for Shady Locations
This publication provides introduction information on perennials. Including pest management, an explanation of terms, and a chart with names and characteristics of perennials.
Annual and Perennial Flowers Master Gardener Manual Ch. 13
Chapter 13 from the Master Gardener Manual. Includes: Types of Herbaceous Ornamental Plants, Using Herbaceous Perennials in Garden Design, Flower Garden Maintenance, Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes, Tubers, and Tuberous Roots, and Specialized Herbaceous Flower Gardens.

Mums and Daisies: Chrysanthemum
Provides information on the performance and varieties of various mums and daisies.

Roses
This publication offers information on the classifications of roses (including all different types), planting, care taking, cutting & disbudding, and winter protection.
Rose Rosette Disease
Provides the symptoms, cause & disease development, and disease management of Rose Rosette Disease.