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Horticulture 1000
HT1021 - Practical skills - What is Horticulture
Practical skills Uses of plants
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What is Horticulture

Horticulture involves making  more plants (propagating) and growing and caring for plants for both pleasure  and/or profit.

There are many sectors to the  horticulture industry in New Zealand. A few of them include:

The many sectors of the horticulture industry in New Zealand

       
  • arboriculture
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  • market  gardening
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  • orchards
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  • floriculture
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  • floristry
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  • glasshouse  vegetables
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  • amenity  horticulture
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  • nurseries 
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  • landscape  design
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  • landscape  construction
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  • turf  culture
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  • fungi 
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  • research  scientists
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  • tissue  culture
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  • hydroseeding.

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Key points   Key points

  •   There  are many career options available in the different sectors of horticulture.

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Practical skills Uses of plants