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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:
- arboriculture
- market gardening
- orchards
- floriculture
- floristry
- glasshouse vegetables
- amenity horticulture
- nurseries
- landscape design
- landscape construction
- turf culture
- fungi
- research scientists
- tissue culture
- hydroseeding.
Key points
- There are many career options available in the different sectors of horticulture.
What's next?
Go to: 2 Uses of plants.