Welcome to the College of Lake County Horticulture Page! We are a career program within a two-year community college that offers courses at the Grayslake and Southlake (Vernon Hills), and Lakeshore (Waukegan) campuses.
The field of horticulture is evolving quickly to address current
sustainability issues, whether in plant production, landscape
design or construction and management.
The CLC Horticulture program has incorporated sustainability topics
across its curriculum to better prepare students for
employment in the green industry.We offer students five horticultural career programs and six certificate programs. Graduates enter a range of
employment including local landscape companies,
environmental consulting firms, municipalities and park
districts, public land management agencies, and
entrepreneurial ventures.
We also have a well-equipped facility that is comprised of two large greenhouses, a floral design lab, a horticulture science lab and a landscape graphics lab. We also have an arboretum that we use as a living laboratory for many of our courses such as Tree and Shrub identification and our Sustainable Agriculture courses.
