ProHort - Resources for the professional horticulture service industries. easy access to accurate, unbiased information.


The goal of this website is to give horticulture service professionals quick and easy access to accurate, unbiased information. This website is intended for landscape designers. landscape architects, irrigation designers, irrigation installation contractors, landscape installation professionals, and landscape maintenance contractors, and arborists as well as those in the pest control, retail garden, sports turf, and interiorscape industries, among others. If you are a service contractor, or work for a service business, or for a government agency doing service or pest control, then this website is intended to help you become more knowledgeable and professional. A primary resource important to all of the above professionals is information. This site offers hundreds of publications, many are industry specific publications. A calendar of events, classes and workshops that offer CEUs. Some of the information contained on this site (primarily horticulture info) is specific to the West Coast of Florida, some of the information (business info and safety info) is applicable to a much wider area. Links are also available to diagnostic serves and to numerous issues of newsletters. Pesticide licensing is key to may of the Florida professional service industries. This website contains a great deal of information on all of the Florida pesticide licenses.
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