Which term describes propagating, growing, installing, maintaining and using grasses, annual plants, shrubs and trees in the landscape?

• A. Floriculture
• B. Pomology
• C. Olericulture
• D. Landscape and nursery industry

Answer: (D)

This question tests understanding of the field that covers propagating, growing, installing, maintaining and using grasses, annual plants, shrubs and trees in outdoor spaces. That broad area is the landscape and nursery industry. It includes producing plants in nurseries (propagation and cultivation), supplying them for landscapes, and the services to install and maintain them in the landscape, such as design, planting, pruning, irrigation, and ongoing care. Floriculture focuses on flowering ornamentals and cut flowers; olericulture is vegetable production; pomology is fruit production. Because the description spans the full range of landscape plants and the full set of activities from propagation to installation and maintenance, the landscape and nursery industry is the best fit.