Commercial Horticulture Program Requirements

What Skills & Abilities Will You Need?

• Follow directions and accept responsibility for your own work.
• Demonstrate your knowledge of plant materials and use horticulture terminology, skills, and equipment.
• Deal with people in a pleasant, businesslike way.
• Use math in the selling and purchasing of materials and supplies and for calculating chemical/fertilizer applications.
• Use your back, arms, and legs to reach, lift, stoop, and bend. 
• See well and have good color vision.
• Create and plan designs in landscape and flower arranging.