horticulture
She visits many gardening shows and horticultural industry functions.
The university horticultural centre is a cluster of greenhouses where botanists grow rare flowers.
The garden centre's profits provide horticultural training for young people.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Gardening - general words
allotmenteer
allotmenteering
aquaponics
arborist
beanpole
bed
hedging
homegrown
horticulturally
horticulture
horticulturist
regraft
regreen
repot
resod
resow
window box
xeriscape
xeriscaping
yardwork

Examples of horticultural

horticultural
It covers general issues of existing and emerging technologies plus 10 chapters on their usage, in particular mainstream crops including horticultural species.
This investigation draws from the literature to ascertain whether horticultural auction markets may provide such a link for small farms.
This paper will, through a review of the literature, characterize horticultural auction markets, drawing on both existing and historical perspectives.
Consciously or not, nature writing, whether poetic, scientific, or horticultural, marks the impossibility of integration or full rapprochement between the human and the natural world.
Continued focus on freshness, and specialty and organic produce, is likely, with growing demand for floral and other value-added horticultural products.
The society's seven founders constituted a cross section of the horticultural world as it was emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The articles and letters appearing in the horticultural press were only the outward flourishes of a circulation carried on incessantly in copious correspondence.
Researchers, scientists and educators working in the field of seed science and plant physiology, also biological, agricultural, horticultural and ecological sciences.
Horticultural auctions have also been shown to help small farmers remain economically viable and enhance family and social position12-14.
Financing, or access to capital, is essential to the start-up activities of horticultural auctions.
All farmers derive their food from the farm by growing food crops, which include some horticultural crops to meet family requirements for vegetables and fruits.
However, there is no consensus among scientists on the boundary or a clear line that separates field crops from horticultural crops.
Optimism for the horticultural auction model must be tempered with caution, however.
Some of the studies have no livestock component at all and are entirely stockless arable or horticultural systems, or a combination of the two.
Many farm households have specialized in fishery and horticultural enterprises because of an adequate resource base and market accessibility.
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