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    What Landscape Horticulture Is All About

    Landscape horticulture is all about growing decorative plants and using them to design beautiful but functional landscapes. A fully functional landscape should be able to modulate the temperature, diminish noise and reduce glare for privacy and security. Landscape horticulture is not just art it also involves plant science and business skills in production and usage of these plants.

    In landscape horticulture, you must be familiar with different types of plants and their characteristics like how they grow, adapt with the environment and reproduce. You must also know how to protect them from pests and other diseases. In the business aspect of landscape horticulture, you should know how to manage plants, use different tools, handle employees and the most important, how to deal with customers.

    Creativity and artistry are the two most important qualities that you must posses in landscape horticulture because you will be focusing on designing gardens and lawns. In addition, you should also have the skills in managing and developing environments, business establishments, golf courses, parks and playgrounds.

    Landscape horticulture is a billion dollar business that involves design application, management and preservation of both rural and urban landscapes. Landscape horticulture involves several areas of specialization like landscape design, nursery management, plant identification and cultivation.

    If you have a degree in landscape horticulture, you will know more about different kinds of plants from their developments to their relationships with various organisms as well as you will also know how to use different plants with stones, bricks or other materials and turn them into a work of art.

    An expert in landscape horticulture can use decorative plants in designing landscapes in private homes, public parks, gardens, highways and business centers. The job options are practically limitless since it covers both residential and business spaces.

    A lot of people make landscape horticulture their career. Careers range from production to design and maintenance, marketing and teaching. If you graduated with a degree in landscape horticulture, you can work as any of the following:

    - Purchase representative
    - Researcher
    - Teacher/Professor
    - Florist
    - Designer/Landscaper
    - Plant Breeder
    - Biotechnologist
    - Sales Agent
    - Pest Control Consultant
    - Horticulture Counselor
    - Interior Landscaper

    You can earn good money in landscape horticulture because the average pay is around $28,000. Starting salaries for fresh graduates range from $20,000 to $45,000 per year. However, salaries differ depending on the location of the job, your expertise and previous jobs related to horticulture landscape.

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