Economic, Environmental and Well-Being Benefits of Lifestyle Horticulture

摘要

Lifestyle Horticulture is known around the world by different names. In the United States, it is casually referred to as the green industry and more formally as the environmental horticulture industry. Lifestyle horticulture is a rapidly growing and very visible component of the world economy, but interestingly there is little information available at the national and international level. The lifestyle horticulture industry is comprised of wholesale nursery, greenhouse, and turfgrass sod growers; landscape service firms such as architects, designers/builders, contractors, and maintenance firms; retail firms such as garden centers, home centers and mass merchandisers with lawn and garden departments, and marketing intermediaries such as brokers and horticultural distribution centers (re-wholesalers).