WebPortal into Landscape Horticulture

Horticulture Principles

• General Resources
  • An indispensible Web Resource for Horticultural information is the Factsheet Database. This should be a starting point for any specific question about horticultural practices and concepts.

   

• What is Horticulture?
  An overview of the field of Horticulture in general. Definitions of the term. What some think Horticulture is. This is a broader look at Horticulture than just from a Landscape standpoint.
  
• Some musings on Science in Landscape Horticulture -Contains highlights of the role of science in developing knowledge relevant to Landscape Horticulture; also outlines the key components of biology, environment and technology that relate to landscape horticulture.
  
• General Botany
  H&CS 300 General Plant Biology- this is the home page for the introductory course on plants taught in our department.
  • The Lectures section provides overviews of key topics in general plant biology.

   

• Horticultural taxonomy
• A brief discussion of Horticultural taxonomy can be found in the section Horticulture Biology of Science in Landscape Horticulture.
• The presentation on Plant Classification of H&CS 300 gives a nice overview of key concepts in classification.
  
• Plants used in the landscape: trees, shrubs, vines, groundcovers, herbaceous perennials, annuals, bedding plants, indoor plants, potted plants.
  • Landscape Plants for Ohio (OSU's Plant Dictionary)
    
• Soils and Media
  
• Landscape Ecology: key concepts & application
  • The Constructed Landscape as an Ecosystem: key concepts & relevance
    
• Growing plants (propagation, nutrition, etc)
  
• Managing plants (pruning, diseases, pests, nutrition, etc)
  
• Horticultural mathematics: measurements, calculations