Botanic gardens, Cooperative Extension, and land grant universities share a common goal of horticultural or plant science education. Many botanic gardens include education in their mission statements. While academic institutions typically offer
multiple-entry tool can be utilized nationwide to supplement on-site lab courses or distance education classes in horticulture, botany, taxonomy, and biology. Mechanical Hedging and Early Hard-tipping Increase Blackberry Yield A traditional soft
cross section of the U.S. population and include all ages, education levels, income levels, martial statuses, household sizes, genders, and regional locations. Consumer horticulture extension specialists and agents are asked to address many issues
invasive species practices and public education is held in high regard among managers to facilitate that process ( Vanderhoeven et al. 2011 ). In another example, Bertolino and Genovesi (2003) commented on the weight public acceptance has on invasive
interactive teaching tools were developed by Campbell et al. (p. 504) for use by students enrolled in a University of Florida distance education plant identification course. A plant identification quiz used detailed photographs to test students’ ability to
selected as a part of the tropical foliage plant breeding program at Mid-Florida Research and Education Center. Origin and Description Dieffenbachia ‘Tropic Honey’ was obtained from a cross of Dieffenbachia ‘Victory’ ( Henny et al., 1987 ) and
achieve this goal, we first need to effectively coordinate our existing educational resources to increase the knowledge and capacity within our research and education community, as well as the industry. The impetus to develop this knowledge center is to
activities, participation in a working farm, interaction with local farmers, and farm visits. These findings return full-circle to the education philosophies of pedagogical pioneers of the 20th century; in 1916, John Dewey, a prominent educational scholar in
misunderstood questions before full deployment of the survey. Survey participants were recruited within the target region as identified by arboretum staff on the basis of past traffic data as a reasonable distance to travel for leisure activities at the
differed significantly from stereotypical terms such as “fun-social,” “education-awareness,” “special event,” and “class,” to more personal terms such as “relaxation,” “stress reduction,” and “inspiration.” Their survey introduces an important question as