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Horticulture & Park management
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Career Pathways
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| The Ornamental Horticulture
Program at Mt. San Antonio College is one of the largest
in California. It serves Los Angeles, San Bernardino,
Orange and Riverside Counties. The classes offered prepare
the individual for a career in many different areas
of horticulture, such as: |
- Nursery Management: The propagation, scheduling,
production, and marketing of ornamental plants.
- Interior Landscaping: The design, selection
and care of plants for interior situations
such as malls, office buildings, and residences.
- Retail Garden Center
Sales and Management: Selling and marketing of plants, plant products,
pesticides, fertilizers and horticultural
equipment.
- Landscape Maintenance: Care and
management of landscape plantings in home
gardens, industrial parks, condominium complexes,
schools and institutions.
- Landscape Contracting: Installation and construction of landscape
plantings, decks, fences, pools, outdoor lighting,
irrigation systems, patios, walks and retaining
walls.
- Turf Management: Maintenance of golf
courses, parks, athletic fields, cemeteries
and other large turf areas.
- Arboriculture: Care and culture of woody plants, including
tree pruning, cabling and bracing.
- Pest Control: Identification and control (chemical, biological
and cultural) of insects, diseases and weed
pests in the landscape.
- Landscape Design: Site and client analysis, planning the outdoor
environment, including the preparation of
drawings and planting plans
- Floral Design: The design and preparation of flower arrangements
for weddings, corsages, funerals and special
occasions.
- Horticultural Equipment
Operations: The selection, operation and maintenance of
horticultural equipment.
- Landscape Irrigation
Design and Application: The design, installation
and maintenance of irrigation systems.
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Career Options
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- Nursery Management
- Wholesale
Production Nursery Propagator
- Inventory
Controller
- Field
Foreperson
- Field
Superintendent
- Manager
- Salesperson
- Sales
Manager
- Shipping
Foreperson
- Broker
- Wholesale Production
of Seeds
- Breeder
Propagator
- Independent
Grower
- Sales Manager
- Salesperson
and Dealer
- Retail Nursery
and Garden Center
- General
Manager
- Buyer
- Division
Manager
- Plant Doctor (Horticulturist)
- Landscape
Designer
- Salesperson
- Floral Designer
- Maintenance Person
- Delivery Person
(Truck Driver)
- Arboretum, Botanical
Garden, and Horticulture Garden
- Director
- Superintendent of Operations
- Educational
Director
- Curator
- Librarian
- Writer
- Propagator
- Researcher
- Greenhouse
Manager
- Education and Research
- Extension
Agent (Farm Advisor)
- Private
Horticultural Consultant
- Garden Writer
- Ornamental Horticulture
Instructors
- High
School
- Community
College
- University
- Landscape Design
- Landscape
Contracting
- Floriculture
Production
- Diseases
and Pests
- Floral
Design
- Management
- Research
Scientists
- Research
Technicians
- Plant Inspector
- Horticulture
Therapy
- Landscape
Industry
- Landscape
Contracting
- Landscape
Designer
- Landscape
Estimator
- Landscape
Contractor
- Landscape
Construction
Crew Foreperson
- Landscape
Maintenance
Foreperson
- Landscape
Gardener
- Salesperson
- Landscape
Draftsperson
- Turf Management
- Greenskeeper
- Greenskeeper,
Head Foreperson
- Turf
Grower
- Parks
Management
- Parks
Service Manager
- Parks Maintenance
Supervisor
- Groundskeeper
- Interior Landscape
- Designer - Salesperson
- Contractor
(Installer)
- Contractor,
Rental and/or
Maintenance
- Arboriculture
- Urban Forester
- Tree Trimmer
- Tree Trimming
Foreperson
- Tree
Surgeon
- Floriculture
and Design
- Production
- Grower
- Production
Superintendent
or Foreperson
- Marketing
Manager
- Propagator
- Inventory
Controller
- Wholesale
Commission
- Florist
- Manager
- Buyer
- Sales Manager
- Salesperson
- Route Salesperson
- Retail Florist
- Store Manager
- Sales Clerk
- Head Designer
- Designer
- Wire
Service Field
Representative
- Panel or Show
Designer
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