Ornamental Horticulture

Author: Xie Guowen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: "The Landscape Horticulture" strives to integrate scientific rigor, knowledge, advanced concepts, and practicality; it aims to combine landscape and flowers, theory and application, concise explanations with strong operability. The book is rich in content, innovative in structure, illustrated, widely applicable, and easy to understand. It consists of 18 chapters and 6 appendices with practical technical materials, systematically introducing the basic concepts of landscape horticulture, the classification of landscape flowers, propagation, introduction and domestication, flowering period regulation, cultivation and management, soilless cultivation, pest and disease control, introduction to common landscape flowers, lawn maintenance, commercial flower production and operation, flower and plant arrangement, planning and design, decoration and application, dried flower making techniques, and flower arrangement and bonsai skills. In teaching, colleagues can flexibly apply it based on local resource characteristics and professional needs.