The importance of woody cuts for ornamental horticulture industry

Highly urbanized modern lifestyle, has put human under severe psychological pressures. To overcome these depressions, plants are necessary in the home and workscape and ornamental horticulture plays an important role in this regard. In addition to cut flowers, as a specific and mainly herbaceous group of ornamental plants, the stem of some trees, shrubs, and woody vines are used for flower arrangement goals, and the technical term “woody cutsˮ is used for them. Woody cuts are an important group of ornamental plans forming a considerable section of production, export, and sale of flower and ornamental industry worldwide, hence, 25-30% of the cut flower market. Flowering stems, bare stems, foliage, buds, fruits, and bark of these plants have wide use for innovative designs in floral arrangements and flower baskets. Meanwhile, in addition to the use of woody cuts for garden and landscape design, their pruned parts could be used for cut flower markets, as well. Considering the reasonable diversity of woody cuts, they are available in all seasons and for any normal or special market. Some species of Salix, Eucalyptus, Cornus, Ilex, Syringa, Buddleja, Forsythia, Myrtus, Magnolia, Viburnum, Rosa, Callicarpa and Cottinus are among the most important woody cuts. In this article, the importance of the cultivation of woody cuts is reviewed.