The word horticulture comes from the Latin
word meaning "garden cultivation." Basically, horticulture is all about plants.
It involves planting as well as maintaining exterior landscapes and interior
plantscapes.
How important is horticulture in your community? In the
Horticulture PAC,
students use interactive software to find information to help them determine the impact of
horticulture on their own state’s economy. Students research different types of
commercial horticulture such as nursery operations, plant growing operations, and seed
producing operations. They also learn about various types of plants, their
characteristics, and how they are produced and reproduced.
Using interactive videos
and
software, students become familiar with different types of greenhouses and
their functions. They also identify the principles that landscape
designers follow in creating a design, and they use landscaping software
to help them translate landscapes into scaled drawings.
Students will follow the complete process of
landscaping from the design stage to installation and maintenance. They identify the
principles that landscape designers follow in creating a design, as well as the different
categories of landscaping plants. With the help of landscaping software, students
translate landscapes into scaled drawings and recognize how computers help solve design
problems when changes need to be made.
