What Can I Do With a Major In Horticulture?
The intense cultivation of plants for the benefit of people and the environment
Areas of Focus
There are several major areas of horticulture: Pomology, Fruit Production; Olericulture, Vegetable Production; Floriculture, Flower Production, Nursery Crop Production; Landscaping (designing, construction, and maintenance), Product Marketing, Private & Public Gardening, Education, Research Design, Advertising, and Photography
Career Titles
Silivicultureist (Production of Florist) Landscape Architecture
Park Management Polologist (Production of Fruit)
Floriculturist Flower Production
Wholesale Florists Retail Florists
Greenhouse Grower Greenhouse Manager
Olericulturist (Production of Vegetables) Landscape Contractor
Landscape Technicians Groundskeeper
Gardener Nursery Grower
Nursery Grower, Manager Landscape Design
Landscape Architect Horticultural Therapist
Plant Pathologist Plant Geneticist
Plant Breeder Secondary Teacher
University Professor/ Researcher Arboriculturist (Tree Expert)
Golf Course Management Interior Landscaping
Taxonomist Garden Writer/ Photographers
Herbalist
Career Related Websites
American Horticulture Therapy Association
American Nursery and Landscape Association
American Society of Landscape Architects