Getting involved
Modern horticulture has developed into an efficient and technically refined industry not only characterized by rationally optimized, standardized, and automated production techniques, but also with a high degree of specialization. Professional gardening is no longer a matter of "clippers, straw hat, and watering can", as in the good old days.
Computerization has strongly entered all aspects of horticultural working procedures, starting from climatization/air conditioning, irrigation, plant data management and beyond. Still, detailed manual skills and care in understanding and providing for the diverse plants is a special challange particularly important for anyone working in an academically oriented botanical garden. Here we are often handling a great variety of species with only few individuals of each kind – much in contrast to the situation in vast majority of commercial horticultural enterprises which handle great numbers of plants of the same sort. Our special situation at the Botanical Gardens thus requires more manual work and more dedicated skill to suit the diverse particular requirements of the many different kinds of plants, rarely allowing for standardized procedures.
The flexibility that comes along with diversity constitutes the special value and benefits of botanical gardens – there is a unique opportunity in becoming involved.
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