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| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 614 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Erika Wood
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Each year, several counties across the state participate in the bedding plant trials. These trials consist of new varieties of flowering annuals that have just been released onto the horticulture market. The purpose of the trials is to see how well these new varieties of plants perform in a garden or landscape setting. For the trial garden, there are usually 20 different varieties of annual bedding plants with ten plants per variety for a total of 200 plants. The Hopkins County
