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Diploma In Landscaping
Diploma
from £120 per month
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2100
code: VHT025
Become a Professional Landscape Contractor or Garden Designer
.....at the same time become an expert in Plant Identification, Garden Renovation, Landscape Assessment, Project Management, Permaculture Design and lots more.
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. Gain a truly solid landscaping qualification from one of the most respected schools in this field.
Lesson Structure
To obtain this Diploma you must satisfactorily complete all set tasks and assessments of Nineteen (19) core modules and two (2) electives from a chosen list, to ensure the course is tailored to your needs or choice!
Note that each module in the Diploma is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
Activities
Can You Really Learn Practical by Distance Education?
Answer -YES
We have found that the question of "practical" learning is one that people some people feel cannot be achieved through correspondence.
The diploma in landscaping is an excellent course, and it can be done anywhere -you do not need to attend practicals or workshops in any particular place at any particular time....BUT ....there is a lot of work that goes well beyond just theory; and the way in which that is tackled can be extremely diverse, and different for every student.
Here are just a few examples:
- There are a lot of tasks that involve visiting gardens or sites to be landscaped; and observing, conducting surveys , photographing or otherwise recording what is observed, undertaking an analysis etc.
- Some of these tasks may involve using improvised survey equipment (if you do not have more sophisticated equipment, ewe can show you how to improvise).
- Some may involve doing an analysis of soil
- Some might involve planting something or growing something.
- Some tasks involve networking with industry -making contact with and interacting with people who work in landscaping or associated support industries
- Some tasks involve PBL projects (a system that has been tried and proven not only by ourselves but by many highly reputable international universities
- Research Projects -You need to visit, observe, interpret things in places like landscape material supply yards, soil supply companies, machinery & tool suppliers, etc.
- Plant Collections -This is a tried and proven way of learning plant knowledge....we have adapted it for distance ed. and used it for 30 years....feedback from graduates and employers has been overwhelmingly positive. It works!
Core Modules
- Cottage Garden Design
- Horticultural Research I
- Horticultural Research II
- Horticulture for Beginners (I)
- Plant Knowledge (Horticulture II)
- Landscaping Foundations (I)
- Landscape Construction
- Plant Selection And Establishment
- Horticultural Resource Management
- Landscaping Intermediate (II)
- Landscaping Styles (III)
- Natural Garden Design
- Permaculture Systems
- Planning Layout And Construction Of Ornamental Gardens
- Playground Design
- Project Management
- Restoring Established Ornamental Gardens
- Water Gardening
- Workshop I
Elective Modules
- Australian Native Trees
- Starting A Small Business
- Conifers
- Deciduous Trees
- Irrigation (Gardens)
- Photoshop (Beginner To Medium Level)
- Roses
- Trees For Rehabilitation (Landcare Reafforestation)
- Tropical Plants
- Advanced Permaculture
- Horticultural Marketing
- Perennials
- Plant Ecology
Delivery
- Correspondence
- Online
Accreditation and memberships
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