2. School...
• Niagara Parks Commission School of
Horticulture, Niagara Falls, ON.
• graduate 2002
• Botanical gardens, arboretum,
butterfly conservatory
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6. employment...
• NPC Botanical Gardens
• Waimea Arboretum
• Lyons Arboretum
• Greenspace Plants
• Brickman Group
• by His design-landscaping
7. employment...
• NPC Botanical Gardens
• Waimea Arboretum
• Lyons Arboretum
• Greenspace Plants
• Brickman Group
• by His design-landscaping
9. Your future in the greenhouse industry...
as wide as the sky...
10. GREENHOUSE P RODUCTION:
WITH THE P ROPER EXPER IENCE AND EDUCATION...
Propagator
Head Grower
Grower
Range Superintendent
Production Manager
11. SALES & MARKETING:
In large operations this duty is assigned to specialists
Produce brochures, product catalogs, sales projections, manage
product lines and train/motivate sales personnel
Marketing Manager
Shipping Room Manager
People are needed for: basic maintenance and preparatory work,
equipment operators, potting/moving plant material, wrap/
package plants...
Editor's Notes
Greeting!\nRoll call\nHand out syllabus-run through and discuss\nStart slide presentation-introduce myself/schooling/employment/experiences\nExplain my goals/desires for the course\nAsk students to introduce selves: major, why they signed up, what they hope to learn, what field they intend to work in once graduated, any g.h. experience?\n\n\n\n\n
unique school\ntrained, taught, live on 83acre botanical garden\n-includes: victorian rose garden, vegetable and herb gardens, arboretum, many specimen plantings, trial gardens.....\nmost of the bedding plants are propagated at the butterfly conservatory g.h.\nstudents cared for all aspects of garden-maintenance and design\nlarge focus on p.i.d. and annual design-containers, baskets, rose garden etc.\n\n
Residence!\nfor first and second years\nkitchen staff feed us 3 meals a day\n
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Break for 15 min.\nWhen returned pass out handouts (tools and gh attire)\n
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Propagator: in charge of all phases of prop.-timing of cuttings,determines/maintains the light, temp and moisture conditions. uses seed, tissue culture, layering, grafting techniques to reproduce the plants.\nHead Grower: supervises several growers (depends on size of operation)\nGrower: in charge of one or two greenhouses.responsible for all cultural jobs in the area (planting, watering, fertilizing etc.)\nRange Superintendent:in charge of the head growers, growers (depending on size of operation. \nProduction Manager: responsible for all stages of a single group of greenhouse crops. Must be competent in all phases of growing and production. Carries\n final responsibility for the crop. Orders all supplies needed to grow crop.\n
Marketing Manager: controls post harvest handling, storage, packaging and shipment\nordering cartons, containers, packaging needed.\nShipping Room Manager: supervisory position (of the handling of the crop from the time it arrives to the time it ships out) reports to the marketing manager.\n
