Dosavadní Katedra zahradnictví a krajinářské architektury FAPPZ ČZU v Praze byla rozdělena dne 1. 9. 2008 na dvě nové katedry: Katedru zahradnictví a Katedru zahradní a krajinné architektury.
Od 1.2.2016 sídlí katedra zahradnictví v budově MCEV II. (FAPPZ - pavilon D), 6. podlaží.
Focus:
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Department of Gardening and Landscape Architecture
makes education at gardens subjects (3 years profession bachelor study of horticulture). Study of new accredited bachelor study program Garden and Landscape Regulation and Enterprise in Horticulture were started with a cooperation of College of Horticulture Mělník. Selected subjects are educated in branch of Plant Production and subjects in new programs bachelors study: Agriculture, Horticulture and Developing of Countryside, branches Production and Decorative Horticulture, Sustainable Exploitation of Natural Resources and Development of Countryside.
The Master degree continues at 2 attendance study programs: Production Horticulture and Garden Creation. Offer propagates for interested persons about horticultural specialization. Study matchs requirements at production, realization and manager companies and at contractors.
Attention is applied to practical education in greenhouses FAFNR, at Experimental and Demonstrational Station in Troja and in green area of the Czech Univerzity of Life Sciences (ČZU). These workplaces are oriented to demonstration of new technologies, outplanting, founding and curing greens and make condition for solving final thesis. Practices of students are made in greenhouses for both study programs.
Students innovate in gardening skills, help growing plantation that is using for demonstrative outplanting of annual flowers and for experimental station in Troja.
Cooperation is with The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening in Průhonice, where is practical part for education of subjects decorative gardening. Abundant assortment of woods, perenials, greenhouses flowers and different technologies of propagation decorative plants are used for education. Průhonice park and dendrology garden are using for historic and nowadays parks setting and landscape setting.
Same as Průhonice is using Prague botanic garden in Troja for education subjects of decorative gardening.
Cooperation continues with The Research Institute of Crop Production in Prague- Ruzyn. Experimentations in orchards of apple trees are making there within solving phase of faculty research intention. Exercices from subject Fruit Growing are taken place there. Master thesis, final bachelor thesis and disertation thesis are ending in the Institute. Cooperation is also with The Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology Holovousy. Ltd. Students go for excursion and practices there. Bachelor or master works about pomology problematic are made there.
Number of students is still growing and founding of new cooperations is urgently. Some of them are: fruit growing and viticultural companies (S.A.D. Daminěves, The Research Station for Viticulture in Karlštejn) vegetable, flowers and nursery production firms (Montano Valtr Semice, Agropodnik Bohušovice, SINCO Mělník, Tulipa Praha, Lipence, Hanka Mochov, Arboeko Obříství, nursery Montano Přerov nad Labem etc).
In 2007 ended 26 final master thesis and 74 final bachelor thesis at Department of Horticulture and Landcape Architecture.
Research activity:
Research of department workers is oriented to shaping and cutting of fruit trees, regulation of growing and fruitage, world assortment evaluation of plum trees, testing of factors influencing vegetable production in view of profitable and qualitative production, thrifty access to natural resources and permanent sustainable managment in agriculture, protection primary genetic fund with conection ecologic care about landscape, problematic of greens in countryside and their landscape surroudings and enlargement of flowers assortment. It was made an interactive digital database of wood species in area of ČZU.
Other activities:
In autumn 2006 were plant out new trees site of perish trees in new outplanting of choosing world assortment of plum- tree from fruit trees nurseries from the Czech Republlic and Austria. Trees are shaped as a spindle with permanent supporting strucutre- impreg stock.
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture interlocks metodics leading of garden group at upkeeping and renovation greens in area of ČZU. The department participates in outplanting of new garden for education. Workers of department provide and choosing all materials for it and making practical layout outplanting in terrain.
We cooperate with vegetable and fruit growing firms where are held excursion and practices. We are cater to consultant activity for producers of fruit and vegetable, consultation for projects and realization actvity at seat and landscape greens.
Workers of department in 2007 expertly guarantee with company IVEX, Ltd. process of retraining scheme- Founding and Upkeeping of Seat and Landscape Greens, in 150 hours ( spring and autumn in 2006) for 23 person.
The department cooperates with region fruit growing unions.
We make a few scientific seminaries ( practical briefing of aplle tree cutting), competition in cutting trees for people from practices. Seminaries took place in orchards at fruit growing firms in Prague- Ruzyň, Vlčice- Chomutov and Ostroměř. There were be many fruit- growers, nurserymen and also students from horticultural high schools and universities. These actions are very popular.