Landscape Horticulture Exam 1
Define Horticulture - Answer--art and science
-growing fruit, nuts, veggies, ornamental, herbs, spices, and medicinal
- YARD CULTURE/ gardening
- fresh
-intensive culture
What is Pomology - Answer-Fruit
What is olericulture - Answer-veggies
What does environmental Hort do? - Answer--enhances environment
-pushes green industry
GGIA - Answer-Georgia Green Industry Association
they support the landscape industry (government)
"environment is our business"
Floriculture plants tend to be... - Answer-tender
Nursery plants tend to be.. - Answer-hardy
,What can you do as a Landscape Horticulturist? - Answer--contracting business (legal)
-landscape management
-grounds maintenance
-turf. grass management
- arboriculture- trees
-urban forerter- community foresters
- landscape design
Landscape Architects - Answer-design space for human use
Forestry - Answer-production of timber and fiber
Job positions - Answer-- Crew Foreman- over 2-3 people
- superintendent- over several crews
- Sales Person- doing job bidding
- Estimator- Job site estimations
- Manager/Owner- long range planning, goals, personnel
- urban foresters
- Public gardens/estate gardens
- Teacher/Researcher
Benefits of Hort jobs - Answer-- passionate- plants and people
- positive impact on the environment
- tangible
- growing
, - work outside
- lower stress (at times)
- camaraderie
Drawbacks of Hort job - Answer-- seasonal
- weather
- injury
- hard work
- overtime
- image
- sun time
Why people garden - Answer-Cicero - Respice - Prospice
- Adam and Eve- Paradise (enclosed space)
- Bliss and content
- complete control
- Territory
- Status, wealth, power, culture, taste
- Edu - boxwood ex.
- highest expressing of culture (get money and smell the roses)
- perfect portrait of the person inside
- the best gardens are made of memories
Running theme throughout history - Answer-gardens represented "the good life"
Define Horticulture - Answer--art and science
-growing fruit, nuts, veggies, ornamental, herbs, spices, and medicinal
- YARD CULTURE/ gardening
- fresh
-intensive culture
What is Pomology - Answer-Fruit
What is olericulture - Answer-veggies
What does environmental Hort do? - Answer--enhances environment
-pushes green industry
GGIA - Answer-Georgia Green Industry Association
they support the landscape industry (government)
"environment is our business"
Floriculture plants tend to be... - Answer-tender
Nursery plants tend to be.. - Answer-hardy
,What can you do as a Landscape Horticulturist? - Answer--contracting business (legal)
-landscape management
-grounds maintenance
-turf. grass management
- arboriculture- trees
-urban forerter- community foresters
- landscape design
Landscape Architects - Answer-design space for human use
Forestry - Answer-production of timber and fiber
Job positions - Answer-- Crew Foreman- over 2-3 people
- superintendent- over several crews
- Sales Person- doing job bidding
- Estimator- Job site estimations
- Manager/Owner- long range planning, goals, personnel
- urban foresters
- Public gardens/estate gardens
- Teacher/Researcher
Benefits of Hort jobs - Answer-- passionate- plants and people
- positive impact on the environment
- tangible
- growing
, - work outside
- lower stress (at times)
- camaraderie
Drawbacks of Hort job - Answer-- seasonal
- weather
- injury
- hard work
- overtime
- image
- sun time
Why people garden - Answer-Cicero - Respice - Prospice
- Adam and Eve- Paradise (enclosed space)
- Bliss and content
- complete control
- Territory
- Status, wealth, power, culture, taste
- Edu - boxwood ex.
- highest expressing of culture (get money and smell the roses)
- perfect portrait of the person inside
- the best gardens are made of memories
Running theme throughout history - Answer-gardens represented "the good life"
