The document provides an introduction to the horticulture class, explaining that students will be responsible for crop production and maintenance. It discusses various career opportunities in horticulture, such as working with ornamental plants, edible crops, landscaping, and turfgrass management. The document emphasizes that horticulture involves both art and science, and notes there is a growing job market for horticulture graduates.

1. Horticulture: Why are you here?
You are an important part of this class.
Your classmates will depend upon
you for crop production and
maintenance.
There may also opportunities for
community service credits helping with
a new native plant Wellness Garden at
Heywood Hospital across the street.
Practical Horticulture
Bio 120

2. Why Horticulture?
Plants impact our lives every day in
multiple ways.
They beautify our surroundings and
provide materials for our basic
needs of oxygen, water, food, and
shelter.
Why
Horticulture?

3. Why Horticulture?
Why
Horticulture?
Horticulture is the art and science of
growing plants: edible and ornamental.
In addition to growing plants, horticulturists
create beautiful landscapes and manage
recreational areas like golf courses and
sports fields.

4. Why
Horticulture?
Why Horticulture?
The word horticulture comes from the Latin “hortus,”
meaning “garden,” and “cultura,” meaning “cultivation.”
Plant Yourself in the Perfect Career
Horticulture involves many areas of study,[which can be grouped into two broad
sections, ornamentals and edibles.
Arboriculture is the study, selection, planting, care, and removal of individual trees,
shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
Turf management includes all aspects of the production and maintnenance of turf
grass for sports, leisure, or amenity use.
Floriculture includes the production and marketing of floral crops.
Landscape Horticulture includes the production, marketing and maintenance of
landscape plants.
Olericulture includes the production and marketing of vegetables.
Pomology includes the production and marketing of pome fruits.

5. Why
Horticulture?
Viticulture includes the production and marketing
of grapes.
Oenology includes all aspects of wine and winemaking.
Postharvest physiology involves maintaining the quality of and preventing
the spoilage of plants and animals.
Integrated Pest Management is a broad-based approach that integrates
practices for economic control of pests.
Plant Pathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by
pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions.
Plant Propagation is the process of creating new plants from a variety of
sources: seeds, cuttings, bulbs, and other plant

6. Why
Horticulture?
Why Horticulture?
Protecting the Environment &
Feeding the World
Today our world presents new and
complex problems related to the
environment and the need for secure and
reliable food supplies.
Horticulturists will play an important role in
addressing these issues.

7. Horticulture students helped design and install a green roof.

8. Why Horticulture?
Opportunities are growing
Jobs in horticulture continue to increase.
And, the number of available jobs continue to
exceed the number of graduates.

9. Fruit and Vegetable
Production
Students in fruit and vegetable production
help feed the world.
Why
Horticulture?

10. Why
Horticulture?

11. “I want to have a job where I work
outside with my hands and don’t
have to sit at a desk all day. Plus I
can eat my work which is
pretty awesome.”
Why
Horticulture?
What students are saying…

12. Landscape Design,
Installation and Management
If you can imagine it, we can design
it, build it, and maintain it. We create
your perfect outdoor living space.
Why
Horticulture?

13. Building a paver patio

14. Students
working on
landscape
installation
projects.
Why
Horticulture?

15. What students are saying…
Why
Horticulture?
“I chose Horticulture because it allows me to
work outside with the environment. Not only to
enjoy my surroundings, but to do my part in
creating beautiful spaces, like back yards and
green roofs, that will result in a better tomorrow.”

16. Nursery and Greenhouse
Production & Management
Students in the nursery and greenhouse
option grow the plants that beautify the
world inside and out.
Why
Horticulture?

17. Landscape management students learning about new equipment.

18. Arboriculture students using the rope and saddle technique.

19. Public Gardens
Management & Education
Have you ever enjoyed the beauty of a public
garden or listened to a garden guide talk about
the plants you’re looking at? Odds are your guide
studied public garden management and
education.
Why
Horticulture?

21. Turfgrass Management:
Golf Course
Golf course superintendents manage and direct
the day-to-day activities of golf courses. They help
create the perfect golf shot.
Why
Horticulture?

22. Golf course student preparing the fairway for play.

23. What students are saying…
Why
Horticulture?
“I chose Horticulture because I wanted
to work in the golf course industry and
grow my knowledge in turfgrass
science.”

24. Turfgrass Management:
Sports Turf
Sports turf managers care for athletic fields. They
create the perfect playing surface.
Why
Horticulture?

25. Sports turf students painting the field at a stadium.

26. A student intern at a
practice facility

27. Why Horticulture?
Career Opportunities
Horticulture offers many career possibilities
including:
¡ Nursery & Greenhouse Production
¡ Landscape Management & Lawn Care
¡ Landscape Design & Installation
¡ Golf Course & Sports Turf Management
¡ Garden Center Management
¡ Fruit and Vegetable Production
¡ Public Gardens Management and Education
Why
Horticulture?

28. Why Horticulture?
Is Horticulture Right for You?
You should consider a career in horticulture if
you:
¡ Are creative
¡ Have an interest in the environment
¡ Enjoy the outdoors
¡ Want to help people
¡ Like problem solving
¡ Are tech savvy

29. Choosing a Career in
Horticulture
In higher education, horticulture is
classified as a science and requires basic
knowledge of math, chemistry, and
sometimes other sciences. But within the
sciences, horticulture is an applied
science, and the knowledge is used to
achieve a specific goal, such as
increasing the yield of a particular crop.
Why
Horticulture?

30. What’s the difference
between botany and
horticulture?
¡ Botany – basic science that deals with plant
classification, biochemistry, anatomy, etc.
without direct regard to how they affect a
plant’s usefulness to humans
¡ Horticulture –the art and science of plant
production for both beauty and utility. We
work with fruits, vegetables, ornamental
plants, and turfgrass, in a variety of labs,
fields, golf courses, botanic gardens, and
garden centers.
Why
Horticulture?

31. Some Specific Horticulture Careers
¡ Arboretum Director/Associate
¡ Arborist
¡ Berry Grower
¡ Botanical Gardens Manager/Grounds Assoc.
¡ Bulb Producer
¡ Business Owner
¡ Cannery Field Manager
¡ Community Garden Planner/Educator
¡ Enologist (Winemaker)/Vineyard Supervisor
¡ Extension Educator
¡ Field Supervisor
¡ Floral Designer
¡ Florist Plant Producer or Retail Florist
¡ Flower Buyer
¡ Foliage Plant Producer or Maintainer
¡ Geneticist
¡ Golf Course, Cemetery, or Park Superintendent
¡ Grass Seed Producer
¡ Greenhouse Manager
¡ Greenhouse Vegetable Production
¡ Garden Manager
¡ Garden Center Operations, Sales, Maintenance
¡ Golf Course Superintendent
Why
Horticulture?
§ Grounds Maintenance Supervisor
§ Herb Grower
§ Horticultural Therapist
§ Horticulture Marketing/Sales Mgr.
§ Interior Plant Technician
§ Irrigation Specialist
§ Landscape Contractor
§ Landscape Designer
§ Lawn Maintenance Foreman/Technician
§ Nursery Production Supervisor/Technician
§ Orchard Supervisor
§ Plant Biologist
§ Plant Breeder
§ Plant Propagator
§ Produce Retail Team Member
§ Research Scientist
§ Seed Analyst
§ Seed Producer
§ Sports Field Manager
§ Tissue Culture Lab Technician
§ Tree Nursery Grower
§ Urban Garden Manager
§ Vegetable Grower/Farm Manager

32. I hope you enjoy this
introductory course in
horticulture.
Why
Horticulture?