I posted in Botany and was advised given my interest that horticulture would be more suitable for me. Here is some of what I posted:
I’m really starting to love plants and have such a great facination and admiration for them. What interests me is their productive role in our enviroment ( not interested in enviromental issues) such as providing us with food, medicines and their natural healing properties. I have read a little on ethnobotany and find it facinating but don’t wish to specialize in it. Also their uses in the skin care/beauty/aromatherapy industry.
I also would be interested in learning anything about their aesthetic beauty ie why they are different colours, why they produce fragances. Their secret little world like their senstivity to stimuli and of course the usual stuff like breading and gentetics. I have no interest in planting and landscaping.
Would horticulture be better for me? What did you learn about in your course?
So you like cars, but wouldn’t want to be a mechanic? My dear, you answered your own question. "I have no interest in planting and landscaping." Define horticulture. Read about the classes taken by the student above.
The study of horticulture would bore you to tear & would be a waste of your time and that of those teaching you. Maybe as a passing minor, but no way should you give any thought as a major.
You touched on many different fields of intrest. But the only ones you gave a no doubt, thumbs down to (enviroment & planting and landscaping) are the main back bones of any horticulture course of study.
The things you seem most interested in have little to do with the actual study of horticulture in itself. I know from my many years as both student & teacher that your heart and intrests would be misdirected should you go in this direction.
Go back & do some more homework in the areas you seem to enjoy. I’m sure you will find a more suitable direction for your energies.
Be happy.
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