Horticulture, that is, garden cultivation, cultivation, breeding technology and production management methods of fruit trees, vegetables and ornamental plants. According to this, it can be divided into fruit gardening, vegetable gardening and ornamental gardening. The word gardening originally meant planting plants in a fenced garden. Although modern gardening has already broken this limitation, it is still a more intensive cultivation and management model than other crops. Gardening is an integral part of agricultural cultivation. Horticultural production is of great significance for enriching human nutrition, beautifying and transforming human living environment.

In order to analyze the conflict between the translation of "horticulture" and the word "horticulture" in agricultural terms, the word "horticulture" in agricultural terms is called "specialized horticulture" here, and the word "horticulture" popular in current lingua franca is called "general horticulture". The English word for professional gardening is gardening, while the English word for general gardening is gardening. Gardening "general gardening" generally refers to the work related to garden activities. Because people express different meanings in words, they have different meanings in different language environments. With the development of modern urban and rural areas, there are many high-rise buildings, vertical and horizontal roads and the ground space is gradually decreasing. How to make use of scattered spaces or areas such as the front and back of urban residents' houses, roofs, indoors, windowsills, balconies and fences? To cooperate with urban construction, beautify courtyards and speed up greening have attracted more and more attention from the broad masses of the people.

Whether in the effective space around the courtyard, garden, roof, balcony or indoor and other related facilities, they all meet each other, artificially creating a clean and beautiful living environment and an elegant and comfortable working environment. It plays an important role in cultivating good moral and social atmosphere and developing modern socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization.

The cultivation purpose of "specialized horticulture" is to produce high-quality crops in order to obtain maximum economic benefits, while the cultivation of "general horticulture" is mainly ornamental, supplemented by production. Therefore, the former mainly emphasizes the scientific nature of management, while the latter requires both the scientific nature of management and the artistry of general application, and requires the combination of science and artistry to show ornamental and practical value.

In recent years, with the increasing awareness of environmental protection, besides landscaping, the fashion of beautifying every corner of the living environment is gradually taking shape. Therefore, with the development trend, the content of "general gardening" is no longer limited to the technology related to the cultivation of ornamental plants, but begins to attach importance to plastic arts and make it develop in the direction of ornamental arts.