Botany and Horticulture are blanket terms used to describe any plant oriented activity. I thought this would be a great time to talk about the differences and similarities. Horticulture is the study and activity of growing and caring for plants, and developing new species, hybrids, and techniques. Botany is the science of plants, identifying species, and making scientific correlations. These two academic disciplines are both wildly interesting. A Horticulturalist can tell you the best way to grow a certain type of flower in certain types of conditions, and a Botanist can identify what types of flowers and fauna are present around you outdoors, and why they grow there. As we take a close look at these definitions I encourage everyone to check these two links from Wiki on the two sciences. Botany on Wiki - Horticulture on Wiki – With all that being said, if we take a close look at what kind of science applies to us and the kind of gardening we do, I think its fair to say we are Horticulturists. Maintaining and perfecting the growth of our plants is the ultimate goal. I must admit that Botany remains an incredibly interesting part of it all too. Here is a quote from a Botanist – “I’m a botanist and everyone always asks me to help their house plants grow better when I tell them that, so I inform them that, “Horticulturists keep plants alive for a living, botanists kill plants for a living.”since we have huge collections of dried pressed plants called Herbariums for verifying species identifications.That’s a bit tongue in cheeck, and I try to be a bad botanist, keeping a pretty thriving garden going, but I’d definitely say that botanists look more at plants in their natural habitat and try to identify species and how they’re related, whereas horticulturists try to create new species and figure out how to grow plants in new habitats.