Flower gardening - Kusabanaengei

...It is not just about appreciating cut flowers and potted plants, but also includes techniques for making small flower beds and gardens, and more recently includes fresh flowers and Western-style floral decorations. Floriculture has sometimes been interpreted in the narrow sense as flower gardening, and flowers are sometimes called ornamental plants. The number of plants handled as floriculture, including species and varieties, is said to exceed 10,000.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "floral horticulture" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…また切花や鉢植えを観賞するばかりでなく，小規模な花壇づくりや庭造りの技術にも及び，最近では生花や洋風の花卉装飾などをも含める。花卉園芸とは狭義に草花園芸と解釈されたこともあり，また花卉を観賞植物と呼ぶこともある。　花卉園芸として取り扱われる植物の数は種，変種を併せて1万種を超えるといわれる。…

※「草花園芸」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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