Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Our department sits at the intersection of design, creativity, health and the natural world. We take pride in challenging our students to understand the complexities of human and community health and how to create thriving natural landscapes. Our programs ensure we get outside, get our hands dirty, and learn by doing.
Research and Engagement
We emphasize a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to our research interests and goals. Because our work is so deeply connected to the landscapes we live in, engaging community partners is essential for growing our research, and ensuring our students’ professional and educational success.
Story of Impact
Linc Thomas
Access to nutrition, access to education, and access to growing relationships is Linc Thomas’ passion. Linc found his place in HLA through relationships he built with faculty and students through the CSU Horticulture Club.Using his horticultural knowledge and people skills, Linc built the Everybody Eats Garden, which offers nutritional support to students facing food insecurity. For Linc, setting the table for others has been his prized achievement while at CSU.
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Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Degrees and Programs
Undergraduate Degrees
Environmental Horticulture Major
Provide solutions necessary to achieve aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces.
Horticulture
Apply scientific principles in the growing, marketing, processing, and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flower and foliage plants, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses.
Landscape Design and Contracting – Concentration
Learn the designing and building process typically delivered by one company providing a turnkey of design services followed by construction implementation and management of the built project.
Horticulture – Minor
Learn the application of scientific principles in the growing, marketing, processing, and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flower and foliage plants, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses.
Organic Horticulture – Minor
Learn the science of organic agriculture with additional courses specifically focused on organic agriculture production techniques, business management, marketing, and decision making.
Horticultural Business Management – Concentration
Manage any horticulture business or market associated products, including the operation of garden centers, nurseries, fruit and vegetable production operations, greenhouses, or floral products outlets.
Horticultural Science – Concentration
Receive a solid foundation in the basic sciences and agricultural sciences leading to technical and scientific careers in laboratory, greenhouse, or field research.
Environmental Horticulture – Minor
Provide solutions necessary to achieve aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces.
Landscape Architecture
Give character to the constructed landscape, bringing the same skills to the shaping of landforms, plants, structures, and materials, and service to the client, as an architect brings to a building.
Horticulture Major – Controlled Environment Horticulture Concentration
Build an understanding of the environmental/plant relationships required to produce quality greenhouse-grown products.
Horticultural Food Crops – Concentration
Focus your studies on systems related to production of fruits and vegetables.
Graduate Degrees
Ph.D. in Horticulture
Develops a horticulture graduate student into a professional horticulturist on the highest plane.
M.S. in Horiculture
Conduct a research investigation on a horticultural topic that generates statistically analyzable data reported in a comprehensive scientific thesis.
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