Horticulture
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Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscaping. They are distinguished from plants grown for utility or food production. Ornamental plants are cultivated for their aesthetic features like flowers, leaves, scent, texture, fruit, stems, and bark. Gardening practices like pruning are often required to maintain the ornamental appearance of plants used for topiary and bonsai. While most ornamental plants are grown for decorative displays, some may also be used for practical purposes like producing lavender oil.
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- 1. HORTICULTURE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS POMOLOGY (FLORICULTURE) OLERICULTURE LANDSCAPE AND NURSERY
- 2. Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display. The cultivation of these forms a major branch of horticulture.
- 3. Most commonly ornamental garden plants are grown for the display of aesthetic features including: flowers, leaves, scent, overall foliage texture, fruit, Plant stem, stem and bark, and aesthetic form. In some cases, unusual features may be considered to be of interest, such as the prominent and rather vicious spine botany|thorns of Rosa sericea and cacti.
- 4. For plants to be considered as ornamental, they may require specific work and activity by a gardener. For instance, many plants cultivated for topiary and bonsai would only be considered as ornamental by virtue of the regular pruning carried out on them by the gardener, and they may rapidly cease to be ornamental if the work was abandoned. Ornamental plants and trees are distinguished from utilitarian and crop plants, such as those used for agriculture and vegetable crops, and for forestry or as fruit trees. This does not preclude any particular type of plant being grown both for ornamental qualities in the garden, and for utilitarian purposes in other settings. Thus lavender is typically grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, but may also be grown as a crop plant for the production of lavender oil.