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Horticulture

The Horticulture category focuses on businesses engaged in the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, turf grass, and ornamental plants. Generally production involves relatively small acreage and more intensive methods as compared to that of field crops, although this distinction is not always precise. Businesses in this sector may be described as:

Nurseries, including trees, shrubs, exotics, perennials, bedding plants, and bulbs,
Market Gardeners or Produce Growers,
Greenhouses,
Orchards,
Christmas tree farms,
Seed companies,
Turf farms, or
Floral companies.

Companies offering materials and supplies specifically designed for horticultural producers are also found here, as well as sites related to the import and export of horticultural products.

Industries included are those who typically supply wholesalers, retailers, landscapers, other growers, supermarkets, and occasionally home consumers.

Sites not listed in this category include:

Sites providing information about home or hobby aspects of horticulture are listed under Home: Gardening.
Industries involved primarily in the processing, packing, and delivery of produce to retailers or end users are listed under Business: Food and Related Products: Produce.
Field Crops are found under Business: Agriculture and Forestry: Field Crops.
Sites related to scientific, research and technical aspects are found under Science: Agriculture: Horticulture.

Only sites having to do with the production fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants are listed in this category.

Submit sites with a narrow geographic focus to Regional.
Submit sites offering online shopping to Shopping.
Submit sites in languages other than English to the appropriate World category.

Please read the Description before submitting your site.

Associations

Sites for industry and advocacy groups and other organizations serving or aimed at the horticultural sector.

Edible Fungi

This category is for websites about businesses engaged in the growing and production of mushrooms and other edible fungi, as well as industrial and commercial associations and information for these businesses.

Websites for businesses engaged in the treatment of the finished products should be listed in one of the linked categories.

Employment

This category will list all career and employment sites for the Horticulture area, including job listings and resumes. This category will also list companies that provide services to the companies and individuals that are listed here.

Import and Export

This category lists sites for companies and business entities engaged in import and export of a broad range of horticultural products.

Submit sites to the single-most relevant topical category within Horticulture. For example, exporters of cutflowers are listed in Business: Agriculture and Forestry: Horticulture: Ornamentals: Cut Flowers and Greens: Wholesale and Distribution. Only companies and associations dealing with a broad range of horticultural products (e.g., ornamentals and vegetables) are listed in this category.

Materials and Supplies

This category lists sites for manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers of products used by the horticulture industry.

Businesses listed here are primarily aimed at professional growers. Before submitting to this category, consider the following other options:

Businesses manufacturing or wholesaling products primarily used by end consumers (e.g., home gardeners) are listed in Business:Consumer Goods and Services: Home and Garden: Lawn and Garden and its subcategories.
Businesses selling products to consumers by mail order are listed in Shopping: Home and Garden and its subcategories.
Businesses selling products at retail from a physical store location will be listed in the Regional category for the locality in which the store is located.

Oils, Fats, and Waxes

Plants and the cultivation of plants grown to produce fatty acids, including fatty acid esters and glycerides for use in cooking and nutrition, soap, cosmetics, and industrial products such as paints and other coatings, linoleum, and plasticizers.

Ornamentals

Growers or farms whose crop production is sold only in a small geographical area surrounding the farm location should not be listed here. These web sites should be listed in the appropriate category of the locality or region where the farm is physically located.

Please submit sites only for growers of live floral crops. The distributor site may be submitted to this category if the distributor site is owned by the floral farm.

Software

Software and programs for horticultural businesses and business processes.