LANDSCAPE HORTICULTURE

Career Teaching

Diploma – Horticulture

• Horticultural Field Studies (co-taught)
• Nursery Management
• Nursery Management and Arboriculture
• Plant Identification I (co-taught)
• Plant Identification II (co-taught)
• Project in Horticulture (co-taught)

Diploma – Turfgrass Management

• Landscape Plants (co-taught)

Degree – Horticulture Science

• Culture of Plants
• Nursery Production
• Woody Plants
• Woody Plant Production and Culture

Graduate – Horticultural Science              

• Colloquium in Horticultural Research (co-taught)
• Physiology of Ornamental Crops (co-taught)

Graduate – Landscape Architecture

• Biophysical Resource Analysis (co-taught)

Continuing Education/Open Learning

• Advanced Plant Identification Techniques (co-taught)
• Nursery Production

Career Research Topics

Nursery Production

• nutrient uptake and tracking in container production
• nutrient cycling and runoff management in container production
• cyclic and flood irrigation in container production
• fertilizer management in container production
• pot-in-pot container tree production
• in-ground fabric container tree production
• chemical pruning of shrubs
• aerial dart seeding container media
• wood waste, municipal waste, and aquatic compost container media
• conifer transplant methodology
• Taxus production strategies
• polyhouse microclimate
• Passiflora culture for butterfly larvae

Landscape Trees and Shrubs

• wire basket and tree root interactions
• highway deicing salt effects on roadside plants
• pre and post transplant tree regeneration
• auxin stimulants for root regeneration