Susan Orlean

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

American Journalist

Monty Don

The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with your wallets, not your memories.

English Celebrity

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

Francis Cabot Lowell

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

American Businessman

Often used in contexts related to agriculture, botany, or landscaping professions.

Field Specific

While technical, it pops up in everyday discussions about gardening and landscaping.

Technical Term

May appear in media regarding gardening shows, in plant care books, or in garden magazines.

Cultural References

 Northwest there's a great deal of harvesting of mosses and lichens for the horticultural trade which is expanding my research has shown that these mosses take two to three decades to regrow and therefore it is not a sustainable practice and so I needed to engage some people who could help me learn how to

Nalini Nadkarni: For the...

 themselves and by presenting a really strong economic case they convinced the LA government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure so

3 stories of local...

 but in terms of the entire food network. That's where we should move. And the ultimate may be, but it doesn't apply to cereals, that we have entirely closed ecosystems -- the horticultural systems right at the top left-hand corner.

Horticultural