If you're passionate about gardening and anything that even remotely involves plants, and their well being, then you’re probably a closet horticulturist. A horticulturist being classified as a person who grows and cultivates plants, amongst other things. In other words a gardener right? After all what’s in a name? A tulip by any other name is still a tulip.
Clichéd words yes, but true nonetheless. The only difference between a horticulturist and a gardener is the fancy name, (and the money they make of course!) They get paid in dollars, you get paid in growth and enjoyment. So, you can now go around telling everybody that you’re deep into the study of horticulture!
What is horticulture? It’s a humorous thing really when you get right down to the bottom of it. Horticulture by its very meaning is the cultivation of a garden, or in other words, the science (or art) of cultivation of vegetables, fruits, plants, and flowers. A horticultural plant is defined as one that has been produced by cultivation, and not one that has grown without assistance.
| Born from the joining of two Latin words, hortus, meaning ‘garden plant’, and cultura, meaning ‘culture’, horticulture in its truest form spans across many areas and entails many different types of work areas, ranging from industry, to government, from wholesale and of course retail businesses, to propagators, plant breeders, and even educational institutions. | Gardening Idea ! If you are planting a flower garden, you have a bit more flexibility when it comes to the amount of sunlight your garden needs to receive. This is because there are flowers that love shade, flowers that love sun, and flowers that love everything in between. |
Born from the joining of two Latin words, hortus, meaning ‘garden plant’, and cultura, meaning ‘culture’, horticulture in its truest form spans across many areas and entails many different types of work areas, ranging from industry, to government, from wholesale and of course retail businesses, to propagators, plant breeders, and even educational institutions.
Horticulture enthusiasts should be interested in learning that there are five main areas of horticulture to decide from. Landscape horticulture, which is involved in the production and maintenance of landscape plants is one. Floriculture primarily deals with the business of marketing, and production of floral crops, whilst olericulture deals with vegetables cultivation.
Pomology, and postharvest physiology are the last two of the five areas of horticulture. The study of pomology is based on the cultivation, production, and marketing of fruits, whilst the study of postharvest physiology channels its energies into the promotion of crop quality, and reduction of overall spoilage for all crops.
So now that you have a general view of horticulture, and everything associated with it, perhaps you would really like to get yourself dug into it! If you are interested, there are always classes on horticulture that you could go take to share hours of gardening pleasure with like-minded souls. Perhaps you could even sign up for a night class or two, at your local community college. You’ll never know unless you try. Besides it’s always better to be up front and open with your friends and family, rather than being a closet horticulturist.
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