Protect Your Number One Investment: Your Home And Its Landscaping; Ask For A Certified Industry Professional. They “Know What Grows!”

For most American’s, their number one investment is their home … complete with a beautiful landscape. How do you choose the most qualified professional for your landscape and garden needs? Ask your horticulture professional: “Are you certified?”

(PRWEB) June 18, 2006 -- For most American’s, their number one investment is their home … complete with a beautiful landscape. How do you choose the most qualified professional for your landscape and garden needs? Ask your horticulture professional: “Are you certified?”

Protect your garden investment by knowing you have received plants, products and services from a trained professional. FNGLA Certified Industry Professionals have been trained and tested on such things as plant care, pest identification, as well as proper plant placement, irrigation and fertilization by the Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association (FNGLA). Only those who pass an extensive industry-approved exam are designated as a certified professional.

You wouldn’t think of taking your car to a garage without ASE certified technicians. Just as their blue logo designates a dealership or repair shop that employs trained professionals, FNGLA Certified Industry Professional logos designate garden centers and landscape companies that employ trained professionals who “know what grows”.

FNGLA administers a certification program that allows nursery, greenhouse, garden center and landscape professionals the opportunity to earn the designation of Certified Horticulture Professional, Landscape Technician, Landscape Contractor and Landscape Designer. Written exams measure general horticulture knowledge, reading and interpreting plans, business and safety issues and design theories. Field exams for landscape certifications test proficiency in areas such as landscape installation, equipment operations and irrigation repair.

Today’s consuming public demands certain minimum standards for every occupation. You want to be able to easily recognize and employ professionals. Florida’s nursery and landscape industry, through FNGLA, has set and continues to maintain the standards of growing, maintaining, selling and installing the many plants and products in Florida’s vast “garden”.

To assure you get the best in service and knowledge, ask for an FNGLA Certified Industry Professional…“We Know What Grows!”

The Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association represents Florida's environmental horticulture industry, with an estimated $9.9 billion in sales. For more information, visit the FNGLA website at www.fngla.org, or call 800.375.3642.

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