Horticulture
If you're obsessed with 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 Rose by any other name is still a Rose. Clichéd words yes, but true nevertheless. The only difference between a horticulturist and a gardener is the fancy title, (and the money of course!) They get paid in money, you get paid in blooms. So, you can now go about revealing your friends that you’re deep into the study of horticulture!
What is horticulture? It’s a funny thing truly when you get right down to the roots of it. Gardening by its very definition is the cultivation of a garden, or in other words, the science (or art) of cultivation of vegetables, fruits, plants, and flowers. Ahorticultural plant is formed as one that has been produced by cultivation, and not one that has grown without a helping hand.
Born of the union of two Latin words, hortus, meaning ‘garden plant’, and cultura, meaning ‘culture’, horticulture in its truest form spans across many fields and involves many different types of careers, ranging from industry, to government, from wholesale and retail businesses, to propagators, plant breeders, and even educational institutions.
Gardening enthusiasts will be interested to learn that there are five main areas of horticulture to take from. Landscape horticulture, which is involved in the production and maintenance of landscape plants is one. Floriculture mainly deals with the marketing, and production of flowered 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 selling of fruits, whilst the study of postharvest physiology channels its energies into the promotional material of crop quality, andreduction of overall spoiling for all crops.
So now that you have a general view of horticulture, and everything connected with it, maybe you would truly 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. Possibly 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 beinga closet horticulturist!
I hope the information above was useful. Thanks for reading
