Horticulture Technology

What Kind of Career Can You Expect?
Horticulture graduates work for retail and wholesale nurseries,greenhouses, floral shops, public and private landscape maintenance organizations, highway departments, and other agencies. Graduates often start their own small businesses in various horticulture fields.

Horticulture work often requires much physical labor, sometimes in extreme weather conditions. However, working with flowers, shrubbery, and trees in this field offer interested students many incentives as they work to beautify multiple landscapes.

What Skills, Traits, or Prep Classes Would be Helpful?
- Computer literacy
- Drawing and drafting capability
- Artistic ability and appreciation of gardening and landscaping
- Courses in biology, botany, art, design and math
- Basic business management training
- Outdoor work enjoyment and capability

What Will You Learn to Do?
- Identify and classify soils and plants, including flowers,shrubs, and trees
- Design, construct, and maintain landscapes
- Grow, care for, and arrange flowers
- Prune trees and shrubs properly
- Identify and manage plant pests and disease
- Propagate plants
- Manage greenhouses and nurseries
- Market horticulture goods and services
- Use pesticides and fertilizers safely and legally
- Communicate professionally, both in person and in writing
- Use business computer applications
- Conduct effective job searches

What Else Should I Know?
Our horticulture training involves classroom learning, as well as field trips to local growers and practical outdoor and plant-growing experience in the student greenhouse. Internships with area nurseries, greenhouses or floral shops are also offered.

What Kind of Degree(s) Can I Earn?
- Associate of Applied Science Degree - AAS (approximately two-years)
- Advanced Technical Certificate - ATC (approximately 16 months)
- Technical Certificate - TC (approximately one-year)

To Get Financial Aid:
Almost all prospective students are eligible for some kind of
financial aid, regardless of credit history, income or assets.

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CWI delivers college credit instruction, certificates and degrees through its memorandum of understanding with College of Southern Idaho (CSI). CSI is accredited through The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCUU).