Visit a horticultural or a botanical library and enter the world of plant documentation
Our members’ libraries offer you a wealth of information, through their collections and services, across North America and beyond.
Note to members: For updates and corrections of this listing, please contact CBHL webmaster using the contact form. Full addresses and contact information are included in the Online Membership Directory (password protected for members only).
Arnold Arboretum Library of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Sheffield Botanical Library, Atlanta, Georgia
Australian National Botanic Gardens Library, Canberra, Australia
Birmingham Botanical Gardens Library, Birminghan, Alabama
Botanic Garden Meise, Library, Meise Belgium
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide & State Herbarium, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Forth Worth, Texas
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, Arizona
Brooklyn Botanical Garden Library, Brooklyn, New York
Brookside Gardens Horticulture Library, Wheaton, Maryland
California Academy of Sciences Library, San Francisco, California
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, C.H. Muller Library and Archives, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Cherokee Garden, Atlanta, Georgia
Chicago Botanic Garden, Lenhardt Library, Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland Botanical Garden, Eleanor Squire Library, Cleveland, Ohio
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Library, Geneva, Switzerland
Cornell University, Frank Lee Library, Geneva, New York
Delaware State University, Claude E. Phillips Herbarium, Dover, Delaware
Denver Botanic Gardens, Helen Fowler Library, Denver, Colorado
Desert Botanical Garden, Schilling Library, Phoenix, Arizona
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
Fairchild Tropical Garden Library & Archive, Miami, Florida
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Peter M. Wege Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Julia Appleton Cross Horticultural Reference Library, Morristown, New Jersey
Green Spring Gardens Library, Alexandria, Virginia
Harvard University Botany Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Herb Society of America, Library, Kirtland, Ohio
Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, The LoGerfo Library, Bridgehampton, New York
Holden Arboretum, Warren H. Corning Library, Kirtland, Ohio
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens, Library, San Marino, California
Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Libraries, Richmond, VA
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Lora M. Robins Library, Richmond, Virginia
Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Longwood Gardens Library & Archives, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Arboretum Library, Arcadia, California
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Research Library, Sarasota, Florida
Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Michigan State University Libraries
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Andersen Horticultural Library
Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library, St. Louis, Missouri
Montréal Botanical Garden Library / Jardin botanique de Montréal, Bibliothèque, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library, Lisle, Illinois
National Agricultural Library, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Botanical Library, Leiden, The Netherlands
National Tropical Botanical Garden Library, Lawai, Hawaii
Natural History Museum, Botany Library, London, United Kingdom
New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, Bronx, New York
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Sarah Fore Gaines Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia
Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Schumacher Library, Madison, Wisconsin
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Planting Fields Arboretum, Garden Library, Oyster Bay, New York
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Library, Claremont, California
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library & Archives, Kew, Surrey, United Kingdom
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library, (London / Wisley / Rosemoor / Hyde Hall / Harlow Carr), UK
San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, San Francisco, California
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Terence S. Tarr Botanical and Horticultural Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Harriet Jackson Phelps Horticultural Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Seed Savers Exchange, Robert Becker Memorial Library, Decorah, IA
Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, DC
Temple University Libraries, Ambler, Pennsylvania
Toronto Botanical Garden, Weston Family Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tower Hill Botanic Garden Library, Boylston, Massachusetts
United States National Arboretum, Washington, DC
University of California, Berkeley, University and Jepson Herbaria, Library and Archives, Berkeley, California
University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, College Park, Maryland
University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Seattle, Washington
University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington
VanDusen Botanical Garden, Yosef Wosk Library and Resource Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Why I am a CBHL member
I can't imagine not renewing our CBHL membership. My involvement in CBHL is one of the highlights of my job and the benefits far outweigh the cost.
Brandy Kuhl, Library Director, Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, San Francisco Botanical Garden
CBHL is my lifeline, my go-to group when I need assistance locating information about plants and botanists, especially the early works and on taxonomy.
Suzi Teghtmeyer, CBHL president and librarian, Michigan State University Libraries
I have been a member of CBHL since 2001 when I joined the staff of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens in Seattle. That same year, I attended my first annual meeting at the Denver Botanical Garden hosted by the Helen Fowler Library. I was so amazed to learn that there was an organization comprised of plant librarians!After the Miller Library hosted the annual meeting in 2010, I was asked to join the Board. I wanted to serve CBHL because I had gained so much from meeting fellow horticultural librarians and visiting other garden libraries.
Tracy L. Mehlin, information technology librarian, University of Washington Botanic Gardens
CBHL has proven to be for me the best professional organization to participate during my 34-year career as head of the Library of the Montréal Botanical Garden. As my involvement, I attended 26 annual meetings, hosting two of them, I served on the board and was part of many committees. CBHL provided me with shared expertise and a great network of colleagues all across North America.
Celine Arseneault, retired botanist and librarian, Montréal Botanical Garden