Purpose
Nursery / Landscape is a discipline of horticulture focused on landscape design concepts; identifying, growing and managing landscape plants; and understanding and using hardscape materials and related products.
The Nursery / Landscape industry encompasses the following career opportunities:
- Production and management of nursery crops, including woody and herbaceous plants and turf grass
- Landscape design, from client contact through site assessment to installation for private, commercial, and public sites
- Landscape management, encompassing all aspects of landscape plants, beneficial insects and insect pests and diseases, and equipment use
- Education, research and technology fields used in plant and landscape systems
The Nebraska Nursery / Landscape Career Development Event is designed to create an interest in careers in the Nursery and Landscape industries through education and hands-on technical skills development. Areas of study and education that may align with the Nursery / Landscape CDE include:
- Horticulture
- Landscape Design and Management
- Landscape Greenlhouse and Nursery Management
- Turfgrass Management
- Plant Science
- Plant Biology
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Superintendents:
Kim Todd
Associate Professor, Extension Horticulture Specialist
Licensed Landscape Architect
402-472-8618
ktodd2@unl.edu
Terri James
Associate Extension Educator
402-472-8973
tjames2@unl.edu
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