Garden refers to the beautiful natural environment and recreational environment created in a certain area by means of engineering technology and artistic means, such as transforming the terrain, planting flowers and trees, building buildings and arranging garden roads, which is called garden. It is unique among the Han architecture in China, and the classical garden architecture has made great achievements.

There are many extended concepts in gardens: garden community, garden street, garden city (eco-city), national garden county and so on.

Horticulture refers to the garden cultivation, cultivation, breeding techniques 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. Gardening is an integral part of agricultural cultivation. Horticultural production is of great significance for enriching human nutrition, beautifying and transforming human living environment.

Both of them deal with plants, but the former focuses on transforming the environment, beautifying the environment and greening; The latter focuses on plant cultivation, nutrition, production and management.

The two majors in the school are also different.

Horticulture majors train senior scientific and technological talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills of biology and horticulture, and can engage in horticultural science-related technology and design, promotion and development, operation and management, teaching and research in agriculture, commerce, landscape management and other fields and departments.

The major of landscape architecture mainly trains senior compound scientific and technological talents who are engaged in the breeding, maintenance management and application of garden plants, the planning and design of various urban and rural garden green spaces, and the organization and management of garden construction.