Horticulture is big business and gardening is the UK's second biggest hobby.  It impacts on many aspects of our lives and provides fascinating job opportunities in a wide variety of work activities worldwide.  An increasing number of tourists come to Northern Ireland each year to play golf on our worldfamous links courses and visit our very fine gardens. Horticulturists play a major role in all areas concerned with managing and maintaining our environment, increasing biodiversity and ensuring sports facilities are kept to a high standard. As the designers, developers and managers of urban and rural landscapes, horticulturists are at the forefront of the world in which we live, work and play.

Greenmount Campus is an established name in horticulture education and has provided full-time courses since 1924. Horticulture students develop practical, technical and management skills at the Campus Horticulture centres.

Greenmount Campus facilities

Greenmount Campus is set in over 18 hectares of landscaped grounds originally laid out in the 19th Century. Features include the Richardson's Walled Garden which was redeveloped to celebrate the Millenium. It is of a formal design with a grand conservatory, bleached limes, a maze, water feature, knot gardens and a wide range of mixed and herbaceous planting.

The Amenity Horticulture unit provides sports turf areas for student learning, including full specification golf greens and playing fields for soccer, rugby and gaelic football.

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Within the Machinery and Building Centre there are modern training facilities for landscape construction and machinery maintenance and operation.

The Horticulture Development Centre has production facilities for a wide range of nursery stock and protected ornamental crops. The unit demonstrates advanced technological systems for growing, such as ebb and flow floors and the use of 'smart' films.

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