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Cottage Garden Design

“This is a fantastic course for anyone with an interest in cottage gardens or for landscapers and designers wishing to broaden their repertoire. All aspects of cottage gardening are covered from the historical perspective through to plant selection and plans, and students are able to exercise their knowledge by designing their own cottage garden.” - Gavin Cole B.Sc., Psych.Cert., Cert.Garden Design, MACA. 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. Learn about the Horticultural aspects of creating a sucessful garden and the landscaping techniques to establish it.

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Garden Centre Management

“Here we have 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. Graduates will also enhance their knowledge of typical garden centre products, marketing strategies, and how to get the most out of their staff.” - Gavin Cole B.Sc., Psych.Cert., Cert.Garden Design, MACA. Do you have a passion to Manage a Garden Centre? Can you manage staff and inspire your customers? Then start here and get the inside information on how to run the best garden centre in town!

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Garden Design & Landscaping

Interested in starting a career in garden design? Or maybe you would like to learn the skills so you can create your own piece of paradise? Whatever your goal, our Garden Design & Landscaping course is the perfect way to get started. Today's gardens reflect our changing lifestyles. A garden is not only a visual extension of the house itself, but a place to cater for a wide range of functions. Our Garden Design & Landscaping course teaches you how to create attractive landscapes and flourishing gardens, and is designed to help you become a garden designer. Whether you just love the outdoors and want to improve your own garden, or wish to earn extra income and make a change to a new career, this course can show you how. Plus, as it is delivered by correspondence, there are no timetables to adhere to so your study can fit around your current lifestyle. Entering this exciting and rewarding industry and start enjoying the wonderful lifestyle it can offer - enrol today!

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Garden History

NEW - 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. Lessons cover garden designers, great gardens and garderners of the world, private and public gardens, globilisation of gardens, scope and nature of modern garden conservation, the roles of organisations in garden conservation and much more.

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Garden Maintenance

Maintain a garden in the most efficient way!Over ten lessons, you learn how to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved. A course for garden horticulturalists, gardeners and garden owners. "The course starts at the basics of garden maintenance and works upwards. By the end of the course you will have a good idea of how to maintain gardens and how to approach plant health issues.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming

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Home Garden Expert Course

This course has been Producing Garden Experts since 1985 Want to know more about gardening?Whatever your reason for gardening, this course will help you to garden more efficiently and effectively. There are 8 lessons involved in this course. Each lesson is made up of 2 or 3 parts. “If you would like to be the ‘gardening go to person’ of your neighbourhood, Home Garden Expert is great for expanding your skills in all aspects of caring for your home garden. People of all ages have benefited from this course.”- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming.

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Home Propagation (Beginner's)

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. It is a great base for growing your own plants and is a skill that you will have with you for the rest of your life. You will also be able to use it to teach others. “Learning about propagating your own plants will save you loads of money and give you a great hobby. Some of the toughest and most beautiful gardens I have seen were created with home made cuttings. Horticultural experts will show you how.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming.

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Home Vegetable Growing

There are many different ways you can grow vegetables; and an almost endless range of varieties to choose from. The method you choose and the varieties you grow should depend upon the time, space, level of knowledge and other resources available to you. This course teaches you many different ways of growing, and what is needed for just about every vegetable you can think of. “Lots of people are keen to grow their own food, and this course helps them gain the skills required to create their own vegetable gardens. It is easy to understand, practical, and can be adapted to your own garden requirements.”- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming.

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Irrigation (Gardens)

“Everyone needs to know about irrigation if they are working in gardens or nurseries, so this course will be really helpful for learning about different irrigation methods and how to establishing them.”- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming. Learn how to build and maintain an efficent irrigation system. This is a ten lesson course that covers the design, installation, maintenance, operation and evaluation of simple irrigation systems. This course is similar to BHT304 and BAG213, but focuses on irrigation for parks, home gardens, and other ornamental horticulture areas.

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Managing Notable Gardens

Learn to:1. Discuss appropriate management strategies to ensure the long term survival of plants and garden features.2. Identify and evaluate sources of funding and associated issues.3. Identify and discuss the issues concerned with the presentation of a site to visitors. A designed landscape can be described as parks, gardens or grounds that are pre-conceived, designed and constructed for artistic effect. Parklands, woodlands, water and notable formal and informal gardens are included. Some may have significant wildlife, archaeological and scientific interest; they are also often the grounds in which buildings of historical significance are situated. Notable designed landscapes, of important heritage value occur in the city, in towns and in the countryside - they include: Archaeological remains The grounds and gardens of large houses Notable smaller gardens Urban and rural small parks Notable parks and green spaces that may have historical significance ie. refer to a particular historical figure or event Old parks and gardens which may be representative of the period or a style, or can be attributed to a certain designer Parks and gardens which may be of value as part of other notable landscapes or buildings Large public parks Community gardens and allotments Civic landscapes Churchyards, cemeteries and grounds surrounding public buildings such as hospitals and universities Urban green corridors and other green spaces including village greens New landscapes

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Natural Garden Design

Design Natural Gardens, Bush Gardens, Sustainable Landscapes. “This course is great if you want to create gardens that flow with the natural landscape.Using plants native to your area and blending them with the landscape is perfect for today’s environmental needs.” -Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming. This course develops your ability to design a bush garden (totally native, or using a mixture of both indigenous and other plants). After developing an understanding of the workings of natural environments you learn to create innovative plans for low maintenance bush gardens.It is ideal for the modern garden as it encourages the use of minimal maintenance and allows for habitats to grow without the need for trimming and hedging. You will find more birds and insects coming back into your garden.

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Planning Layout And Construction Of Ornamental Gardens

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. “This is one of my favourite courses as it covers the stages that are so important for a good landscape design.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming,

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Restoring Established Ornamental Gardens

Restoring old gardens to their former glory is a lot more involved than what most people would realize. If a restoration is to be credible, the landscaper needs to understand the history and determine what is authentic and appropriate for a restoration; before they even start to plan the work that needs to be undertaken. 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.

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Tropical Plants

Become an expert in the identification and culture of tropicals; as garden plants (if the climate fits), as greenhouse (stove) plants or as indoor plants. "This course will cover everything you need to know to successfully grow these beautiful and unusual plants, and you don’t necessarily have to live in a warm climate to have tropical plants; there are plenty of ways of adapting the environmental conditions to suit them.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming

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Water Gardening

This course develops your skills in designing, constructing and maintaining water features and gardens -everything from ponds to fountains and waterfalls.. “If you are keen to learn about creating gardens with water features, this is a good place to start! It is not as simple as it seems to create a water garden, and it is imperative to learn the basics of how to create and care for them before you begin.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming

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Certificate In Garden Design

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 is a course which both develops the students design skills, as well as basic knowledge in other areas of concern to the landscaper (eg. horticultural practices, management, plant identification and use, and marketing); and on completion of this course the student should be able to draw landscape plans, compile specifications, and prepare cost estimates. There are thirty lessons taking around 600 hours to complete. The main difference between this Certificate In Garden Design and the Certificate in Horticulture (Landscaping and Garden Design) is the emphasis on the various styles of garden design, such as cottage, playground and bush garden design for example.

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Certificate In Horticulture (Grounds Management)

“This is equivalent to doing a Trade Certificate. It focuses on aspects of turf and large gardens rather than on other areas of Horticulture. It would be a very useful course for those working in Resort Maintenance.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming, The Certificate in Horticulture (Grounds Management) is a vocational oriented course comprising core studies (general horticulture) and stream studies in the maintenance of golf courses, parks and other large scale gardens. This course provides initial training for gardeners, groundsmen and others involved in the care and maintenance of parks, gardens and turf facilities.

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Certificate In Horticulture (Landscaping & Garden Design)

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. This course is designed specifically as training for people who want to work in landscaping, as a designer, contractor or in landscape construction. It is suitable both for people who want to commence their own business; and for anyone seeking work with an established landscape enterprise.

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