Gardening & Horticulture Courses
Do you like gardening? Then perhaps you will be interested in our gardening and horticulture courses. We have a wide range from bonsai, conifers, orchids, deciduous trees, ferns, eucalyptus, carnations, iris and more... Call 1300 11 2468.
This course looks deeper into the various species of plants native to Australia. It deals with both woody (hard wooded) and herbaceous (soft wooded), low growing Australian Native Plants, which bear showy flowers
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This comprehensive course will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to manage or work in a production nursery. It is for anyone who works, or would like to work, in the wholesale nursery industry.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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This comprehensive course is for managers and supervisors of workers in arboriculture. It is comprised of four core modules and three specialist modules relating to the selection and culture of plants, with an emphasis on trees.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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This Advanced Certificate develops both the skills required to manage a horticultural farm (eg. Market Garden, Orchard), as well as the knowledge required for identification, growing, processing and marketing crops and crop related products. It is a broad based course and will extend your ability to make a profit or gain employment more easily then if you specialised in just one crop.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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If you are interested in Hydroponics at a management level or want to start your own business then this comprehensive, exciting and challenging course will meet all your needs. It covers broad general management skills along with hydroponic growing.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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This course will develop your skills and ability to manage a retail business as well as your knowledge of identification, care and handling of plants and other products sold through retail nurseries. The course is designed to train managers and supervisors rather than workers.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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Develop a foundation for applying plant science in commercial situations. Many industries offer significant employment or business opportunities for people who have a moderate understanding of plant science, provided this knowledge is accompanied with a real sense of how it can be applied for commercial benefit in the real world. Unfortunately scientific training is often either too theoretical, or too strongly skills. This course provides a suitable balance between the two.
Price (each): $3,770.00
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Professional managers in horticulture are scarce and opportunities abound for those with the good solid qualifications this course delivers. If you are ready to advance your career, or have aspirations beyond the average, then this management focussed course (that also encourages thorough horticultural knowledge) will enable you to fulfil your goals.
Price (each): $11,720.00
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The Advanced Diploma in Horticulture (Landscaping) is a diverse qualification which allows you to work across several professional industry sectors. Understand plant science, plant identification, plant care, irrigation, soils and nutrition, horticultural management and all aspects of landscaping and landscape design. Choose electives in fields of interest that will help you to realise your ambitions!
Price (each): $11,720.00
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This comprehensive Advanced Diploma course provides training for people to work in the care and development of gardens, parks, or other areas of amenity horticulture (Tree management, Turf Management, Interior Plantscaping etc.) in positions such as Manager, Technical Officer, or Consultant. It opens up many new areas of employment opportunity in Horticulture!
Price (each): $11,720.00
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Management, business management, marketing, horticultural science, technical skills, a variety of crops, hydroponics, plant protection - this course covers all these aspects of crop production (and a lot more) at management level. It is designed for people wanting to commence or advance their careers in the crop production industry.
Price (each): $11,720.00
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If you work in a nursery or want to develop a career in one in a managerial position then this course is for you. The Advanced Diploma in Horticulture (Nursery) has been specifically designed to provide excellent and applied training for people wishing to work in nurseries in positions such as Nursery Manager, Technical Representative or Consultant.
Price (each): $11,720.00
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Would you like to care and manage parks, natural parks, holiday and recreation resort facilities? Then this is the course to do! It provides training for people to work in the management and development of recreation and park facilities and services. It is relevant to all types of situations including municipal parks, national parks, tourist parks, commercial landscapes, resorts and more!
Price (each): $11,720.00
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This course takes you well beyond Permculture foundation courses. It is intended for graduates of other Permaculture courses, garden designers, landscape architects, horticulturists, ecologists or other professionals who understand aspects of permaculture and want to take their knowledge to the next level
Price (each): $779.00
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A step on from Beginners Self-Sufficiency (I), this course will develop your cooking, bottling and productive gardening skills whilst at the same time emphasising health and nutrition.
Price (each): $699.00
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Designed for the African Violet enthusiast, this course covers everything from potting and feeding, to pests and propagation. You learn how African Violets are classified, and cover the exciting range of varieties available. Here is your chance to achieve outstanding results with African Violets!
Price (each): $699.00
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As a person gets older things change in their life, everything from lifestyle to health and their capacity to do things, through to those activities which they choose to pursue. This course helps you to understand these changes, and the ways in which a counsellor, carer or anyone else might interact with and support an older person.
Price (each): $779.00
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After completing Animal Feed and Nutrition you will have the necessary knowledge to manage food and nutrition for pets, farm animals or wildlife in zoos.
Price (each): $699.00
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This course provides graduates of Arboriculture (I) with more in-depth knowledge by focussing on such topics as transplanting techniques, environmental control, environmental tolerance and strengthening techniques, as well as felling and stump removal
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This course is designed to teach you about the measures one must take to keep trees healthy in different situations as well as tree biology, soil management for tree growth, tree surgery techniques commonly used in arboriculture to repair damage and prune as well as appropriate workplace health and safety practices.
Price (each): $699.00
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This very flexible Diploma course wont pigeon hole you into one area. It develops the broad skills required by horticulturists in all sectors of the industry. An excellent course for those not necessary wanting to specialise, this course will provide you with diverse knowledge and thus more employment opportunities!
Price (each): $6,499.00
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This course is designed to give you the knowledge and skills necessary to work at a management level in the Turf industry. It provides a very sound foundation and graduates may find employment in positions such as superintendent, greens manager, sales or marketing representative or technician.
Price (each): $6,499.00
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Learn about identifying, growing and using Australian Indigenous Plants for Food! There are many Australian plants that are edible, and even some that are in very high demand as foods throughout the world and this course takes you through the full range and how to identify, grow, gather and use them.
Price (each): $699.00
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This course first teaches you about different types of Australian flora, plant identification, information sources, planting, feeding, soils, pests & diseases, watering, propagation and transplanting. The remaining lessons then deal with selected varieties of Australian Native trees, windbreak planting, agroforestry, tree maintenance and tree selection!
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Considered by many to be the very best plants a garden can offer, azaleas and rhododendrons are some of the most popular plants grown anywhere. This course shows how to grow them to perfection. It builds your knowledge of varieties available so you will be able to have a long lasting display of colour in the garden. The course covers soils, weed control, feeding, pest and disease control, watering, landscape design and lots more!
Price (each): $699.00
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After completing Beginners Guide to Australian Native Plants (I) you will have the knowledge necessary to identify, select, cultivate and plan a management program for appropriate varieties of Australian native plants, in a wide variety of situations
Price (each): $699.00
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Understand nutrition and making the right decisions about changes in lifestyle, as well as mud brick building, making crafts, growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other crops. The course also covers raising poultry, sheep and goats, extending the life of clothing, conserving energy, recycling, simple home medical care and first aid.
Price (each): $699.00
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This course provides a sound broad based training for commercial growers and/or staff of berry farms. It is equally relevant to the enthusiast or hobby grower who wants to get more serious about growing berry fruits
Price (each): $699.00
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This excellent course will start you on your way with a sound foundation in plant biochemistry. It focuses on plants, though much of the course is applicable to both plants and animals. A Problem Based Approach for learning in this course makes the educational experience practical and applied, helping you to understand, absorb and retain your new knowledge
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Learn the ancient oriental art of bonsai through this practical and comprehensive course. It will develop your ability to select, train and maintain appropriate varieties of plants in different situations, as Bonsai.
Price (each): $699.00
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For lovers of cacti and succulents, this comprehensive course is a must. It studies major cacti & succulent groups and the differences in how to treat plants from each. This course is guaranteed to stimulate your interest, and set you on the path to becoming an expert with these unique plants.
Price (each): $699.00
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Carnivorous plants are very unique. They don’t appeal to everyone, but often capture the imagination of people who are not necessarily interested in other types of plants. This course will teach you about the attraction mechanisms, trapping mechanisms and digestive mechanisms of carnivorous plants, as well as how to propagate, grow and look after them.
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This Certificate focuses on the culture and care of trees, providing a sound foundation for anyone working or hoping to work with tree establishment or maintenance. Unlike many other courses in arboriculture, this course also provides a broad foundation across all aspects of horticulture.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This course provides effective training for people working, or wishing to work, in the landscape industry; either in their own business, or at a supervisory level for someone else. It will develop your design skills, as well as give you basic knowledge of horticultural practices, management, plant identification and use, plus marketing and more!
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This course is ideal for anyone wanting to start their herb career! It is very comprehensive and challenges students to expand their knowledge of herbs and become a true expert. Certificate in Herbs covers less horticulture than Certificate in Horticulture – Herbs, and instead is more appropriate for those interested in operating a small business that grows and harvests herbs and produces herb products.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This course is the best place for a beginner to the industry to start. It covers all the important aspects of Horticulture, as well as the basis for good landscape design. It is designed specifically as training for people who want to work in landscaping, as a designer, contractor or in landscape construction.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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The Certificate in Horticulture (Turf) is a vocationally oriented and accredited course comprising both studies in both general horticulture and in turf care and management. It is designed principally for turf workers at golf courses, bowling greens, sports fields or councils.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This comprehensive course is specifically designed for people working, or intending to work, in the production of grapes. It will teach you everything from establishing a vineyard to harvest and post-harvest handling of grapes. You will get the knowledge you need to successfully manage a vineyard and keep it in top condition.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This course provides an understanding of modern technology and its application to growing plants, with emphasis on hydroponic production. It is a great course for those with some general horticultural knowledge and covers all aspects of hydroponics from growing to marketing!
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This very flexible Certificate allows you to study whichever specific area of Natural Resource Management you choose. The course is vocationally oriented and comprised of 2 core modules which focus on Nature Park Management, and your choice of 4 electives from the list below.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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Learn and Work in Plant Sciences! Take the first step to lay a sound foundation to work in Plant or Environmental Sciences: as a technician, in services, sales or supplies. You will gain knowledge of plant pathology, botany, and depending on the electives you choose, you could specialize in the biochemistry of plants, landcare reafforestation and more
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This course lays a foundation, sharpening your knowledge and skills for identifying plants; and then progresses to build the scope of plants you are able to identify. At the end of this course you will be able to look at plants with greater focus, naturally seeing the characteristics that differentiate a plant from others, and placing it into a group (family or genus) which exhibits those characteristics.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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This Certificate course encompasses two core modules and four electives from a chosen list based on the core principles of self sufficiency.
Price (each): $2,899.00
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Working or wanting to work on an organic farm? This extensive course will teach you the processes required to tap into the commercial organic vegetable market. It provides a wealth of knowledge and practical skills and shows you how to market your produce. Organic vegetables are crops with a future!
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Learn about productively growing vegetable crops through the importance of soils, cultural practices and pest and disease management
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This course was designed to teach you how to grow and use conifers and put you one step closer to becoming a conifer expert
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This course is for the home gardener or landscape designer that loves to have the magic touch a cottage garden can create. Learn what a cottage garden is and how to apply the principles of this concept to garden design and garden renovation
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Learn how to identify and successfully grow dozens of common and uncommon edible herbs. Develop your skills and experience the delights of cooking adventurous new recipes with herbs. Learn drying and other methods of preserving the flavour (eg. herb oils, salts, vinegars) and more! This course will develop your passion for trying new things and you won’t look back once you discover how many flavours there are!
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Would you like to grow orchids for the markets? Then this course is for you! Orchids are one of the most commercially viable cut flower crops due to their beauty long shelf life. This course is designed to teach you how to produce orchid flowers for the cut flower trade. Orchids occur naturally from very cold temperate climates through to tropical locations; provided you choose appropriate species and treat them according to location; it is feasible to grow orchids as cut flowers almost anywhere!
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This is a course designed for the flowering bulb enthusiast or the commercial bulb grower supplying the cut flower market
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Develop your ability to propagate a wide variety of different plants by cuttings.
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This course is a great foundation study for new or experienced horticulturists, landscapers, arborists, nursery workers, gardeners, parks managers or anyone else concerned with the selection, propagation, care, maintenance or harvesting of deciduous trees.
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Horticultural Technicians and Scientists need to have a strong foundation in both horticulture and science. This fantastic course will give you these foundations, as well as teach you the more practical components of horticulture - resulting in an all-round qualification!
Price (each): $8,725.00
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This comprehensive course allows you a great deal of choice as to which area of horticulture you would like to specialize in. The core modules will cover all aspects of horticulture from plant knowledge and health to the biochemistry of plants, and your choice of electives could see you as a master of propagation, cut flower growing, plant pathology or plant ecology and much more!
Price (each): $8,725.00
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The demand for skilled landscapers and landscape designers is booming right now! Give yourself a truly competitive edge with this unique landscaping course. It not only covers all that you need to know about landscaping; it also gives you essential and extensive training in horticulture fundamentals and workplace practices and requirements.
Price (each): $8,725.00
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This course will teach you about Eucalyptus : their identification, culture (propagation, soils, landscape uses, pests, feeding), and uses. Throughout the course you build both knowledge of the group as a whole, and of the range of species you can identify.
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This course gives you a detailed look at the identification and culture of ferns. You learn to propagate (spores, division, tissue culture), different groupings (e.g. epiphytes, ground ferns, tree ferns) both common & uncommon species. Growing techniques (baskets, indoor/outdoor containers, terrariums) and cultural methods (soils, watering, pest & disease control) are also examined.
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This course is ideal for anyone serious about fruit growing; from the small hobby farmer to orchard worker, or enthusiastic amateur who aspires to win first prize for their fruit at the local garden show
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Become an expert in growing tropical fruits in warm climates or in protected places such as a greenhouse
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This course will teach you everything you need to know to successfully propagate, grow, prune, protect, and use fuchsias to create beauty in your garden!
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This is an incredibly informative course for anyone seeking to improve their ability to run or manage a garden centre. All aspects of indoor and outdoor plant care are discussed as well as stock selection and optimal plant display techniques
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Study the history of gardens. Understand how gardens have evolved over the centuries, and broaden your perspective on what is possible and appropriate in garden design today. Garden history will enlighten you, and vastly expand the scope of possibilities you have before you as a modern garden designer
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Maintain a garden in the most efficient way! This course will teach you to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved. Garden Maintenance is an ideal course for garden horticulturalists, gardeners and garden owners.
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This course is designed to teach you how to successfully grow Geraniums and Pelargoniums, from propagation to greenhouse management, you will know everything you need to know to keep these beautiful flowers healthy and happy in your garden!
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In most countries, developed or in development, it is now possible to get the most popular types of cut flowers almost any time of the year. This course is for commercial cut flower growers who are concerned exclusively with greenhouse production. It will teach you all you need to know to successfully manage your greenhouse to gain maximum profit from the sale of your flowers!
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This course reveals the secrets of how to identify annual species, what to grow and when to grow each variety
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Camellias are a hardy group of plants that are grown from cool temperate climates through to tropical regions. While many Camellia species are highly adaptable, the best results are generally achieved by choosing cultivars to suit the climate and conditions you are growing them in. This course will teach you how to effectively identify, select, propagate, grow, prune and protect camellias.
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Get serious about growing Carnations as cut flowers, bedding or container plants! This comprehensive course is equally valuable to the home enthusiast or the commercial cut flower grower. You learn about growing quality carnations in various different ways as well as how to harvest them, recommended post-harvest treatments, and quality control.
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Grevilleas are a wide group of plants, all but seven species coming from Australia. There are around 250 species and half of these are native to the south west corner of Australia. They are striking to look at and also attract birdlife. This course will develop your ability to select and cultivate appropriate varieties of Grevilleas in different situations.
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There are currently many hundreds of hybrid Iris available and new varieties being developed all the time. Their flowering period is generally not very long, but whilst they bloom they are spectacular. This course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to select, grow, prune and propagate Iris, as well as how to keep them pest and disease free, harvest and exhibit them.
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This course is designed to develop a solid grounding in herb growing and the herb industry.
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This course is aimed at the introductory level of education in Aromatherapy. It is suitable for those wishing to gain knowledge of the uses for Aromatherapy in the home or for those working in a related discipline. The course will help you to develop an understanding of the safe use of Aromatherapy oils and their production.
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This course aims to familiarise you with the use and culture of what are traditionally the most common herb plants. It should provide you with a sound framework upon which you will be able to develop your knowledge of herbs.
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This course can be undertaken by users of film or digital technologies and covers the broad principles of photography.
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Picking and eating fruit from you own garden is a wonderful, healthy and satisfying experience that you will never tire of. This course aims to expand your capacity to do just that!
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This course has been producing garden experts since 1985 and whatever your reason for gardening, it will help you to garden more efficiently, effectively and confidently.
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You will learn the theory behind hydroponic culture, as well as receive first hand practical experience as you set up your own basic hydroponic system.
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This course aims to develop a basic understanding of the principles of plant propagation, an overview of propagation techniques, equipment and a general knowledge of the methods of propagation of the more commonly cultivated plants.
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This course teaches you many different ways of growing, and what is needed for just about every vegetable you can think of!
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This course covers the theoretical and practical importance of marketing in the horticultural industry, including topics such as advertising, promotions, signs, customer relations, pricing strategy, labelling, transport, product presentation, and more
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This course is designed to help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to plan, conduct and report on research on social, technological and environmental issues that impact on Horticulture today.
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This course is ideal for use as a Professional Development program for persons working in the horticulture industry anywhere in the world
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This course endeavours to teach you good research skills to enable you be an innovator in horticulture, and to identify trends, issues, and needs that can create new opportunities and directions in horticulture
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Acquire and demonstrate research skills with critical written and numerical assessment of information related to the social, technological, environmental and economic issues that impact on Horticulture today.
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The ideal course for the beginner, this is a basic yet thoroughly practical course which gives you a sound broad technical grounding in horticultural principles and practices
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This course was developed to cover key issues which have been identified as recurrent problems for many experienced growers and is suited to experienced Hydroponic growers or anyone who has previously completed Hydroponics (I).
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This course is the starting point if you are interested in learning how to grow using hydroponics. You will learn how to set up hydroponic systems, nutrients used in hydroponics and much more!
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Develop your skills to make informed decisions on the selection, care and use of indoor plants. To be successful with indoor plants you need to be able identify indoor plants and understand the conditions required for the specific plant variety concerned. This course will help you to build the required knowledge to be able to maintain these plants – both commercially and in the home
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Amenity horticulture is the fastest-growing area of horticulture, with excellent opportunities for employment or self-employment within its different aspects. This course will give you the skills and knowledge to ensure all relevant concerns are identified and appropriately considered when planning amenity sites
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This course is suitable for a Manager of a horticultural business, or for anyone wanting to work in this kind of position.
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The horticulture industry can be divided into two broad sectors: the production sector, which is largely involved with producing food crops; and the amenity sector, which is involved with growing plants for recreational or ornamental purposes. This is the place to start for anyone with an interest in amenity horticulture or who wishes to understand the industry
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Discover the world of Botany! The course contains the basis of plant science, and is an introduction to plant physiology and taxonomy, covering general botany including morphology and anatomy. This is very much an applied course, with relevance to the real world.
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Whilst sharing similarities with other irrigation courses, this highly functional and practical course also has a specific focus on the irrigation of crops. It will be of interest to anyone who grows, or who wishes to grow, crops whether on a large or small scale.
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Learn how to build and maintain an efficient irrigation system. This course covers the design, installation, maintenance, operation and evaluation of simple irrigation systems
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This extremely practical course works as the perfect guide to direct you through tool selection and use, understanding plans, preparing a site and the actual construction of landscape features
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This course will show you the techniques necessary to capture the individual expressions of each landscape. Learn about special affects, colour richness, photographic terms, & achieving sharpness. Develop your skill in creating different effects, and using different materials & equipment and see the difference show in your pictures.
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This course contains the most essential aspects of a full professional landscape design qualification.
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This course is designed to teach you how to design (or renovate) and then maintain a home garden either large or small.
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A natural progression from Landscaping (I), but a self contained study unit in its own right, this course concentrates on the detail of creating individual components in a landscape
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This course explores the many styles of garden that can be found across the globe and the ways in which a garden designer can recreate them
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This course is designed to teach you the nature and scope of the Lavender genus, its growing techniques and much more!
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This course is designed to teach you appropriate management strategies to ensure the long term survival of plants and garden features. It covers sources of funding and associated issues as well as issues concerned with the presentation of a site to visitors.
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This course provides an excellent foundation for developing a sound knowledge of medicinal herbs
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Whether it is a home, a shed, a garden room, a wall or a community building, you will be given an understanding of how to approach building with mud bricks
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This course focuses on the most widely cultivated mushrooms. If your interests are wider than this, all is not lost as the course also provides a valuable introduction to a much wider range of mushrooms and can be used as a starting point for growing any of these as well.
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This course develops your ability to design a bush garden (totally native, or using a mixture of both indigenous and other plants).
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If you are looking to work in a wholesale nursery, or are planning to set up your own, this course provides a good foundation of applicable skills. After this course you will feel confident taking on work in this interesting industry.
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Those who seek to enter the nursery industry or who are currently employed in a nursery will find this course invaluable. From plant identification to propagation, nursery structures to irrigation, this course has it all. Graduates will be accomplished in all aspects of nursery work from the ground up to marketing.
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The Nursery Sales Assistants course has been developed to provide the necessary balance between plant knowledge and sales skills. Through this course you will learn all about plant identification, plant care and how to advise customers, as well as important sales secrets that will boost your bottom line.
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This course will give you an overview of nuts that are commonly grown, as well as some insight into those that are not.
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This course is designed to help you to develop your knowledge of orchids, their culture and uses.
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This course is a very solid training ground for anyone who is serious about growing organic vegetables, herbs or other plants
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This course is an excellent foundation for any type of outdoor plant production.
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Throughout this course you will learn to distinguish between the characteristics of different types of palms and cycads. Learn the general cultural practices required to grow palms and cycads including propagation and appropriate pest and disease treatments
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This course teaches you which perennial plants are most popular today, their cultural requirements (ie. feeding, watering, soil requirements, pruning, pest control), and how to use them to create beautiful landscapes. It is a course equally valuable to landscapers, nurserymen, cut flower growers and garden enthusiasts.
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This course is a natural progression from Permaculture Basics, but can studied separately in its own right. It concentrates on the plants in a permaculture system, how they relate to each other and to the surrounding environment; as well as selection and placement of different varieties within a permaculture design. This course also deals with preparing plans for different types of permaculture gardens.
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Learn to design and manage a comprehensive permaculture system. This course integrates all aspects of permaculture into the design and management of a comprehensive and balanced system. It covers an overview of permaculture, energy efficient building alternatives, waste disposal systems, recycling, natural watering and sustainable energy alternatives, and designing for natural disasters.
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This course introduces the basic concepts of Permaculture, and develops a basis for permaculture design by explaining the patterns which occur in nature, such as weather systems, water cycles, topography, soil-plant interactions and forest ecology, and how knowledge of these patterns can be used to reproduce balanced and productive garden growing systems.
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It is a practical course which helps you develop the fundamentals required to implement permaculture principles, and to produce a design for a large or small property
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This is a great course for landscape consultants, garden designers, horticultural advisors, project managers, or anyone else who works with landscapes and needs to improve their ability to survey, evaluate and plan development work on a site
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Plant breeding is a bigger industry than most people realize. In some places, earnings from plant breeding rights can equal or exceed earnings from actually producing plants. Today's nurseryman needs to understand plant breeding and selection; and to this end, this course is a very valuable and unique course for anyone working in the modern industry
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This course is designed to give you a deeper understanding of the principles of plant ecology. It will teach you why plants are the way they are, their relationships to other plants and living beings, how they developed in evolution and which factors determine their growth and survival.
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Learn with this practical course to identify and control pest and diseases in plants.
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This course is great for expanding your knowledge of a variety of plants that you will come across in all aspects of Horticulture.
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This course has been developed to teach you to control pathological problems in plants and thus increase plant production, productivity and profit
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A course for technicians, gardeners and horticulturalists that need to know in detail horticultural pest and disease identification and control, with chemical and biological solutions and safety procedures and practices
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Develop a firm basis for the selection, establishment and maintenance of a range of commonly used garden plants
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This course includes playground philosophy, design of play structures (for function & safety), materials selection, community participation and park design
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Do you want to learn the practical side of horticulture by distance education? This course is the ANSWER! Able to be completed online, or on CD, you can make full use of interactive learning tasks and coloured photography on the computer. It will give you a great background to start your career or to enhance your current skills
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This course was designed to develop all the practical skills that you need when working under the supervision of a horticultural expert. It contains many tips to develop excellent practical skills in the management of a variety of horticultural situations and you will feel confident to take on tasks and achieve good skills in your field.
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This is a great informative and comprehensive course for those needing a qualification. It is designed primarily for people who already have some related qualifications or experience, who seek to supplement their existing skills and gain an industry specific qualification that enhances their employ-ability and capacity to work in a specialised area of horticulture.
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Learn to propagate plants commercially and efficiently!
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This course teaches you where and how to grow one of the most stunning groups of plants in the world. With the right cultural techniques you can achieve top quality, large blooms in what might otherwise be considered poor horticultural conditions.
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This course is designed to teach you how to manage your plant production with less pest and disease problems
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Despite the complexities and costs involved, there is an ever increasing demand for garden renovation specialists. If you love both gardens and history, this could be an ideal career move for you and this course covers everything you need to know!
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This course is one of a new generation of Certificate s being launched by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) UK to replace older qualifications. It covers the plant kingdom, plant nutrition, pests, diseases and weeds and sexual and asexual propagation.
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The course covers plant selection and planning, garden establishment and maintenance, the production of outdoor fruit and vegetables and the use of protected environments.
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This course covers the growth of roses for the cut flower trade, perfume extraction, harvest of hips and production of rose oil, the history of the rose, therose classification system, general cultural needs (soils, pests and disease management and pruning), how to use roses in garden design and how to produce a commercial rose crop.
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Learn to identify, grow (propagation and culture) and use different types of scented plants. This course will teach you how to harvest and dry scented plants as well as make a whole range of exciting crafts (e.g. soaps, candles)
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This course is designed to teach you how to improve your soils and benefit from them
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This course will develop an understanding of physical & chemical properties of soils, the ability to carry out simple tests and determine soil characteristics, and to decide ways of treating a soil to improve its ability to grow plants
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This course will develop your understanding of physical & chemical properties of soils, your ability to carry out simple tests and determine soil characteristics and help you to decide ways of treating soil to improve its ability to grow plants.
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This is a must do course for those currently working in the turf care industry or who are looking to enter it
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Tissue culture involves growing plants from very small sections (sometimes microscopic) in a laboratory. It is a propagation method which is being increasingly used. Tissue culture is not appropriate for many plants, but for others such as orchids, some indoor plants and in particular, many new plant varieties, it is a very popular propagation method.
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The course develops an understanding of environmental systems and the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes.
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Become an expert in the identification and culture of tropical plants as garden plants (if the climate fits), as greenhouse (stove) plants or as indoor plants.
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This is the ideal course for anyone wishing to undertake employment in a turf or lawn business, or as a landscape gardener.
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Aimed at landscapers, home gardeners, and other turf industry workers, this course enlightens the student as to everything that one could possibly wish to know about turf care
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Learn to grow grapes! This is a serious course for vineyard workers, hobby farmers, farm managers, amateur enthusiasts or anyone working or aspiring to work in this industry.
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This course is for the curious grower who wants to learn more about types of warm climate nuts. Strictly speaking, not all nuts are edible, but this course is only concerned with those that are
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If you are keen to learn about creating gardens with water features, this is a good place to start! This course develops your skills in designing, constructing and maintaining water features and gardens. You will study everything from ponds and fountains to waterfalls.
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Learn to identify and effectively control more than 100 weeds as well as design management strategies and programs, and apply control techniques efficiently and safely
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This fascinating course works as a compendium of all you need to know about establishing a nursery and running it to its maximum profitability.
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