floriculturist

Professional bloom grower

A floriculturist is a person who cultivates flowers professionally, whether for commercial production, research, or horticultural development.

The term is more technical than florist, emphasizing the growing and breeding of flowers rather than arranging and selling them: The floriculturist developed a new variety of disease-resistant roses.

flowers

roses

Thorny flowering shrubs

  • tulipsBulb-grown ornamental flowers
  • liliesFunnel-shaped ornamental flowers
  • orchidsTropical flowering plants

peonies · chrysanthemums · daffodils · carnations · hydrangeas · marigolds · anthuriums · bouquet · arrangement · floristry

greenhouse

nursery

Room for infants

temperature · acclimatization · soilless · benches · potting · coldframe · hothouse · forcing · overwintering · misting

cultivation

propagation

Act of spreading widely

fertilizing · irrigation · grafting · cultivar · germination · beds · soil · mulching · composting · pest-control

botany

pollination

Flower reproductive transfer

genetics · ethnobotany · cultivar · species · hybrid · genus · variety

Opposites
plant specialization

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Professional tree cutter

logger · cattle rancher · pomologist · silviculturist · forester

cultivation vs. destruction

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Chemical destroying unwanted plants

defoliator · exterminator · miner · industrialist

Family

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