Floriculture & Seeds

Floriculture

Floriculture, or flower farming, is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and for floristry, comprising the floral industry. The development, via plant breeding, of new varieties is a major occupation of floriculturists. Floriculture crops include bedding plants, houseplants, flowering garden and pot plants, cut cultivated greens, and cut flowers. As distinguished from nursery crops, floriculture crops are generally herbaceous. Bedding and garden plants consist of young flowering plants (annuals and perennials) and vegetable plants.

Vegetable Seeds

The most important of benefit of organic gardening is that vegetables grown on the rich, high-compost, well-mineralized soil of an organic garden are more vibrant, higher in vitamins, much tastier and better for you than chemically-grown or genetically-modified vegetables. ( Don't forget the old adage, "we are what we eat".) There are pesticide-industry funded studies that appear to “show” no benefits of organic gardening over chemically-grown, but it’s a fact that nitrate fertilizers kill earthworms, seriously damage natural soil ecology, show up as cell-damaging nitrates in food, and are terribly resource-intensive to manufacture.

Herbal & Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants have been identified and used throughout human history. Plants make many chemical compounds that are for biological functions, including defence against insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals. At least 12,000 such compounds have been isolated so far; a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total.Chemical compounds in plants mediate their effect on the human body through processes identical to those already well understood for the chemical compounds in conventional drugs; thus herbal medicines do not differ greatly from conventional drugs in terms of how they work. This enables herbal medicines to have beneficial pharmacology, but also gives them the same potential as conventional pharmaceutical drugs to cause harmful side effects