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landscape plants. Using edibles in landscapes can enhance a garden by providing ornamentals with additional health, aesthetic, and economic benefits ( Creasy, 2009 ). These ornamental jujube cultivars may not have the best fruit quality or the highest yield
Mugwort or false chrysanthemum is an adaptable, nonnative perennial plant that is a management challenge to commercial agronomic and ornamental crop production worldwide ( Barney and DiTommasso, 2003 ; Henderson and Weller, 1985 ; Holm et al
social and political pressures, retailers are asking or demanding that plant producers reduce or eliminate the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in ornamental plant production. According to a nationwide study performed by Wollaeger et al. (2015
ornamental landscape industry. Researchers have documented injury from airborne salts to plants growing near the coast ( Edwards and Holmes, 1968 ; Karschon, 1964 ; Malloch, 1972 ). Exposure to water with high salt content reduces or inhibits plant growth
influence behavior toward ornamental plants ( Rihn and Khachatryan, 2016 ). Rihn and Khachatryan (2016) assess how consumers’ awareness of neonicotinoids was related to pollinator-related knowledge and pollinator promotion preferences. About, 24% of the U
. Table 1. Student demographics for two fall semesters (2013–14) of an ornamental plant identification (ID) course at Kansas State University. Fig. 1. Ternary plot of learning style preference percentages for students of two fall semesters (2013–14) of an
reportedly specific for kahili ginger and nonpathogenic to important ornamental gingers and common plant species in Hawaii ( Anderson and Gardner, 1999 ). Based on this premise, the pathogen was introduced into Hawaiian forests, including Hawaii Volcanoes
transplanting on seven ornamental plant species; ornamentals were evaluated for crop injury (20 Aug. 2003), size (19 May 2004), and dry weight (Sept.–Oct. 2004). In conclusion, most fumigants tested provided good weed control up to 20 months after application
Jimenez and Caballero (1990) for an adequate growth of ornamental plants in the Mediterranean region. The solution contained (in mg · L −1 ): 68 phosphates (H 2 PO 4 − ), 372 nitrates (NO 3 − ), 192 sulfates (SO 4 2− ), 117 potassium (K + ), 80 calcium
space to the landscape plant. Weed occurrence in containers can cause growth reduction of woody ornamentals by nearly 50% in a single growing season ( Fretz, 1972 ) and decrease the aesthetic value of the crop plant. Hand weeding is not an economic