Information and Resources for the Interiorscape Industry
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Interior Maintenance Training Videos - Associated Landscape Contractors of America - Improve your technical
staff’s knowledge and know-how with these interior plant maintenance videos.
(7 videos)
Plants for Interior Landscapes
- Associated Landscape Contractors of America
This full-color sales brochure features care and lighting instructions that not
only assist your clients, but also act as a valuable reference for your staff.
You'll find information on palms, cacti, succulents, hanging baskets, flowering
plants, ficus, dracaena plus many more popular foliage plants. (16 pages)
Guide to Interior Landscape Specifications 4th Edition - Associated Landscape Contractors of America - Learn practical guidelines for specifying interior landscape projects with this exceptional, full-color specifications guide. This complete guide offers recommendations for specifying contractual elements; terms, procedures, interior foliage, containers, and planting details. Full-color photos and easy-reference specification guidelines provide you with all the information you need to spec a job. (1988, 63 pages)
Interior Landscapes - By Nelson Hammer This book illustrates how designers bring the vitality and loveliness of nature into the many diverse structures in which we live and work. This portfolio of green environments displays a variety of lush indoor plantings in hotels, institutions, corporate headquarters, shopping malls, and residential housing. (1999, 190 pages)
Interiorscapes Design Package - Create "before" and "after" high resolution, photo quality images to visually display to your customers how your designs will look when completed. Scaled professional site plans can be created with details as precise as your projects. Customized estimates are created with the E-Z Estimator, which can be exported into most spreadsheets. Includes imaging, site designer, and estimator. Interior disk with images of plants, containers, architectural features. Training CD and manuals included.
Biological Pest Management for Interior Plantscapes, 2nd Edition - By Marilyn Steiner and Don Elliott. This booklet is intended to fill an information gap in the rapidly growing area of the interior plantscape. The information has largely been obtained from the authors' experience in using biological control organisms in interior environments and emphasizes the combined or integrated use of biological agents with cultural measures. (1987, 32 pages)
CD Plants - This revolutionary visual guide to foliage plants is an essential tool for growers, interior landscape contractors, educators and landscape architects. Three CDs provide "Royalty Free" foliage images of 258 plants printable in five sizes. Search on 45 fields of information for each image. This product makes an ideal teaching tool and source of images for sales and promotional literature, catalogs and presentations. (1998)
The Healthy Indoor Plant - By Charles C. Powell and Rosemarie Rossetti Written by landscape professionals, this guide teaches you how to spot problem plants quickly and easily and what steps to take to address the problem using environmentally safe pest and disease control methods. This holistic approach to plant care makes sense, because it's just what's required to keep greenery lush and thriving indoors. Every technician on your staff will save time and money by having this important resource at their fingertips. (1992, 297 pages)
Indoor Plant Problems - Chase Research Gardens
A quick guide to leaf, root, stem and crown problems of indoor plants. Perfect
resource for your technicians. (32 cards)
Plant Basics, A Manual for the Care of
Indoor Plants - By Susan McCollum and Teena Risley Small enough to be taken everywhere in
your technician bag, this valuable handbook is full of facts pertaining to the
care of tropical and flowering plants. The 23 plants most typically used in
indoor accounts are included in the plant care guide with specific maintenance
tips. Also included in this publication are suggestions on managing plant
health. (1994, 86 pages)
Indoor Watering Techniques - By Joelle Steele This book explains what's in the various kinds of waters available for use on plants and their effects on interior plants. It also explains the correct way to water manually and provides information on the latest in high-tech watering systems, including sub-irrigation systems, hydroponics, and hydroculture. Browse the authors website at www.joellesteele.com
Troubleshooting Diseases of Foliage Plants ID Deck - This handsome set of laminated cards details root and stem diseases, as well as virus diseases of the major foliage plants. 45 cards. To order, see the website at http://ifasbooks.ufl.edu/ or call 352-392-1764. For credit card orders call 1-800-226-1764.
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Newsletters & Listservs
The Retail Gardener - A free quarterly newsletter written specifically for retail garden employees in Florida. Latest news and events in the industry, along with seasonal horticulture information. ProHort website at http://prohort.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm or www.prohort.net to subscribe.
Professional Associations
PLANET- Professional Landcare Network http://www.landcarenetwork.org/cms/home.html
Interiorscape Insect Management Suggestions - http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IG110
Trade Magazines
Interiorscape - www.interiorscape.com/ - interiorscape industry news and information
EDIS (Extension Digital Information Source) http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ A database of around 5000 University of Florida publications on all topics including horticulture.
ProHort Website http://prohort.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm or www.prohort.net Information and resources specifically for the professional horticulture service industry including sections specifically devoted to retail garden employees.
Featured Creatures
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/
A database of over 1000 insects and other pests. Information includes photos,
distribution, description, hosts, management, and other references.
IPM for the Interiorscape -
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/InteriorScapes/
Interior Plant Database - http://horticulture.tamu.edu:7998/interiorscape/search.html
Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) Certification - http://www.landcarenetwork.org/cms/home.html
This page last updated on 05/27/08