What is Horticulture?

~ Horticulture is the agriculture of plants

mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty, for decoration

 

~Horticulturists apply knowledge, skills, and technologies

to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs

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~Horticulture is divided into the cultivation of plants

for food (pomology and olericulture) and plants for ornament (floriculture and landscape horticulture)

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~ Horticulture is an application science – the science developed by horticulturists is applied to plant production, improvement, marketing and the enhancement of Earth’s human

and animal life.

Social and Therapeutic Horticulture

 

Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is about supporting and developing people to improve their mental and physical health through gardening.

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Nauset Garden Club offers Garden Therapy spending gardening time with the residents of the Latham Center in Brewster.

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