Horticulture

Floriculture / Landscaping

 

The Floriculture/Landscaping course is designed to prepare students for establishing, maintaining, and managing businesses in the floriculture/landscaping industry.  Instruction will be offered in plant identification and culture, plant pathology, equipment technology, horticulture management, crop production, distribution, History of floral design and floral design.  Students will develop skills in planning crop schedules, propagating plants, pruning trees and shrubs, treating or spraying trees, shrubs or greenhouse crops, and identifying plant diseases and insects that may be harmful to horticulture crops.

 

Students will also develop skills in managing floriculture and/or landscape business which will include the drawing of landscape plans, installing the landscape, maintaining the landscape and all aspects of floral design.

 

Students will gain practical experience in our school’s greenhouse, floral design room, landscape design room, horticulture shop, school gardens, school nursery, house building site, and perennial gardens.