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Horticulture is about managing plants for human sustenance and lifestyle. The teaching, extension, and research programs within our Department focus on providing scientific information is to improve horticultural production systems that contribute to our everyday lives through food and landscapes.
As an undergraduate, you’ll get firsthand experience with Oregon horticulture. Many courses include field trips to farms, orchards, vineyards, golf courses, landscape management firms, and contemporary and historic landscapes.
We're committed to researching and promoting managed horticultural ecosystems and plant biological systems that contribute to clean air and water, biodiversity, greenspace and overall livability in Oregon and beyond. Landscape Plant Identification. Master Gardener Program. Nursery, Greenhouse, and Christmas Trees.
The Environmental Landscape option curriculum is built on science-based information and provides students with the latest technology and trends in the field. Hands-on labs, fieldtrips, and internships are important steps in experiencing and choosing from the many career options available.
Selecting Native Plants for Home Landscapes in Central Oregon. If planted in a suitable habitat, native plants are well adapted to Central Oregon soils and climate. When grown in the right conditions, native plants experience less environmental, insect, and disease damage than nonnative plants.
Ask us a question. The plants in the field trials were chosen by an advisory group of nursery growers and landscape designers and were evaluated on growth, visual appeal, timing of flowering, density of flowers, physiology and heat tolerance.
The site contains images and information on over 1,800 landscape plants, mostly woody. Individual plants can be accessed via either the Latin Names (e.g., Acer ) or a Common Names (e.g., Maple). Both lists are in alphabetical order; for the Latin Names, from Abelia to Ziziphus and the Common Names from Abelia to Zelkova.
