UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Horticulture Greenhouse

Horticulture

Facilities

Our state-of-the-art laboratories include a tissue culture lab, computer-controlled greenhouses, plant materials nursery, and a fruit orchard. In addition, the proximity of UW-River Falls to the St. Paul/Minneapolis metropolitan area provides unique opportunities to enhance traditional classroom instruction with field trips and guest professionals in the classroom.

  • Our Greenhouse provides opportunities for hands-on, laboratory experience for horticulture students and independent undergraduate research.
  • The plant tissue culture and other laboratories provide valuable opportunities for hands-on experience in the classroom and for independent undergraduate research.
  • The horticulture plots serve as an outdoor classroom and include: a teaching orchard, herbaceous perennial collection, landscape rose trial and nursery for young woody plants before being moved into the campus landscape.
  • The fruit research plots serve to support the regional and national fruit industry through the development of improved cultivars (especially strawberries and stone fruits) and effective cultural management techniques.
  • Horticulture students have access to computer aided design.
  • The campus landscape serves as an outdoor classroom for plant identification, understanding cultural management and landscape design.

Contact Us

Plant and Earth Science
pes@uwrf.edu
715-425-3345
324 Agricultural Science
611 S. 3rd St.
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