Floriculture as Career Choice

The industry comprises flower production and trade of flowers, nursery and potted plants, seeds and bulbs, nursery, and more

- Ranjan K Baruah

Flowers are integral part of any celebration in our society. Whether religious celebration or parties and other events, flowers are being used all the time for decoration and for other purposes. In our last edition we have published about horticulture and in this edition we are publishing another part of horticulture which is known as floriculture. Like flowers ornamental plants are associated with our civilisation since time immemorial.

We have seen that people manages their own gardens for domestic needs and flower gardening is also a hobby for many but we can make it in large scale for commercial purposes. floriculture is an important branch of horticulture, which deals with cut or loose flowers, ornamental plants, such as foliage plants, trees, shrubs, climbers, palms, bamboo, cacti and succulents, dried flowers, essential oils and landscape gardening.