The Importance of Horticulture

Production is the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of vegetable food crops

• Pomology

• Olericulture

• Specialty crops

• Environmental horticulture

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

• Environmental horticulture

• Nursery production

• Public horticulture

• Horticulture research

Growing plants under intensive management for use in another location

• Home horticulture

• Pomology

• Nursery production

• Specialty crops

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

• Public horticulture

• Environmental horticulture

• Nursery production

• Olericulture

Use of horticulture plants as recreational activity by non professionals

• Horticulture research

• Environmental horticulture

• Public horticulture

• Home horticulture

Production of ornamental plants for use in indoor and outdoor environments

• Nursery production

• Environmental horticulture

• Public horticulture

• Home horticulture

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

• Olericulture

• Pomology

• Horticulture Research

• Nursery production

Focuses on plants cultivated either for sale or for subsistence

• Pomology

• Nursery production

• Environmental horticulture

• Specialty crops

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

• Rice

• Corn

• Hay

• Vegetables

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

• Rice

• Corn

• Cotton

• Wheat