VISITING NURSERY DECOR UNIT

On the 26^th Jun 2015 which is on Friday, we are assigned to visit Nursery Decor Unit Department as the weekly practical work in Agriculture subject. The Nursery Decor Department is about 10 minutes walking distance from Bukit Ekspo.

Introduction

A nursery is a factory to supply plants, in this case, for a bio-engineering program. A good nursery will supply:

· enough plants of the right species,
· in good, healthy condition,
· in the form required for planting;
· at the right time; and,
· at a reasonable cost.

The word horticulture is modeled after agriculture, and comes from Latin wordhortus “garden” and cultura “cultivation” from cultus. Horticulture includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture.

1. Arboriculture - The study of the selection, plant, care, and removal of, individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
2. Turf management - Includes all aspects of the production and maintenance of turf grass for sports, leisure use or facility use.
3. Floriculture - Includes the production and marketing of floral crops.
4. Landscape horticulture - Includes the production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants.
5. Olericulture - Includes the production and marketing of vegetables.
6. Pomoculture - Includes the production and marketing of pome fruits.
7. Post-harvest - Involves maintaining the quality of and preventing the spoilage of plants and animals.

Activity

Firstly, we were given a talk about the general information of nursery decor in agriculture by Cik Wan Suhana Wan Talib. She explained further about the main components in nursery decor. We become more understand after she gave some examples to us. She also told us how to recognized the ornamental plants. Moreover, she also showed us how to prepare the medium soil mix. Then, we are asked to plant the ornamental plants to decorate mosque for Iftar Ceremony with Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Al-Haj.

These are the information that we got from the visiting at nursery decor :

The main components of a plants nursery

1.    Shade house - exposes the plant about 70% under the sunlight and 50% of shelter.

2.    Insect-proof house – Use netting to prevent the entering of insect.

3.    Box plots and open spaces – Planted in a row with 100% exposure of sunlight.

4.    A soil mix + workspace – For gardening or decorating

The Difference Characteristic of Ornamental Plants

Ornamental Plants	Tree
1.    Shrubs	1.    At matured age, the height is more than 13 feet
2.    Multiple Stem	2.    One erect permenencial stem
3.    Diameter of stem is small	3.    Diameter of stem is 3 inches.