The Importance of Horticulture

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Production is the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of vegetable food crops. What is this process called?

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Olericulture

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Scientists working with landscape plants, turfgrasses, and woody plants, fruits, and vegetables

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Horticulture research

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Growing plants under intensive management for use in another location

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Nursery production

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Focuses on the design and maintenance of public gardens, parks, arboretums, and athletic facilities

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Public horticulture

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Use of horticulture plants as recreational activity by non professionals

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Home horticulture

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Production of ornamental plants for use in indoor and outdoor environments

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Environmental horticulture

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Involves the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of fruit and nut crops

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Pomology

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Focuses on plants cultivated either for sale or for subsistence

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Specialty crops

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Crop produced in the lower Mississippi Valley region and California that feeds most of the U.S.

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Rice

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Crop produced in the southern tier of states in the U.S. providing about 30% of the annual world supply mostly for clothing production

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Cotton