Business / Agriculture and Forestry / Horticulture /
The Horticulture category focuses on businesses engaged in the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, turf grass, and ornamental plants. Generally production involves relatively small acreage and more intensive methods as compared to that of field crops, although this distinction is not always precise. Businesses in this sector may be described as:Companies offering materials and supplies specifically designed for horticultural producers are also found here, as well as sites related to the import and export of horticultural products. Industries included are those who typically supply wholesalers, retailers, landscapers, other growers, supermarkets, and occasionally home consumers. Sites not listed in this category include:
- Nurseries, including trees, shrubs, exotics, perennials, bedding plants, and bulbs,
- Market Gardeners or Produce Growers,
- Greenhouses,
- Orchards,
- Christmas tree farms,
- Seed companies,
- Turf farms, or
- Floral companies.
- Sites providing information about home or hobby aspects of horticulture are listed under Home: Gardening.
- Industries involved primarily in the processing, packing, and delivery of produce to retailers or end users are listed under Business: Food and Related Products: Produce.
- Field Crops are found under Business: Agriculture and Forestry: Field Crops.
- Sites related to scientific, research and technical aspects are found under Science: Agriculture: Horticulture.
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Suttons Consumer Products
Seeds, plants, bulbs, young plants, and other horticultural products for amateur gardeners in the United Kingdom and for export around the world. Lawn seed, seed displays, Horticultural Heritage decorative greeting cards and gardening nostalgia, and ...4
261,152
NA
583,000
11,500
681
Bill Moore & Company
Broker of young plants and other starter materials including seedlings, cuttings, offsets, liners, tissue-cultured, and air-layered plants. Ornamental plants include cut flowers, flowering pot plants, holiday pots, annuals, perennials, tropical flowering, landscape, bulbs, and baskets.3
3,402,989
NA
12,400
1,940
1
Superb Horticulture
Suppliers of products to the fruit, vegetable, nursery, and specialty agriculture markets in the eastern U.S. Group of companies includes Indiana Berry and Plant Co. (different types of berries, rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish, Kiwi, and grapes). ...5
NA
NA
892
231
3
Lynx Horticultural Systems
Manufacturer of fruit grading equipment for the packing industry. Products include sizing equipment, singulators, fruit weighing equipment, and color readers for packhouses. Auckland, New Zealand.3
NA
NA
143
10
NA
Nutri-Tech Solutions Pty Ltd
An Australian company specialising in organic fertilisers. Offers free soil therapy check.4
1,721,667
NA
622,000
2,890
2
Floriculture Worldwide Network
Industry news, conference schedules, and books on bedding plants, pot plants, and cut flowers from Ball Publishing's magazines GrowerTalks, Green Profit, FloraCulture International and Seed Trade News.4
NA
NA
24,600
1,220
1
Blackmore Company
Greenhouse equipment including automated seeders (seed sowing equipment), flat fillers, plug transplanters, taggers. Greenhouse supplies include a full line of plug trays, and growing flats and pots. Belleville, Michigan.4
11,887,395
NA
1,480
785
2
Gardenforum.co.uk
Garden Forum links all people within the garden and horticulture industry with information, advice and news.5
1,235,078
NA
1,100,000
338
3
Hendry County Horticulture
Southwest Florida vegetable pest and disease hotline, vegetables newsletter, and links. Crops covered include watermelon, tomato, pepper. Actively changing content covers pesticides, biocontrol, and the FQPA (Food Quality Protection Act.) University of Florida Cooperative Extension ...5
4,057
NA
18,600
3,230
1
Bascom Maple Farms
Provides equipment and supplies for the extraction of maple syrup.3
7,689,829
NA
3,070
252
472
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