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General Horticulture Courses

If you want a career in horticulture, this is one of the best starting points. This Certificate was developed with a great deal of industry input throughout the 1990's then revised by staff in Australia and the UK in 2004 to ensure international relevance. Graduates from this 600-700 hour certificate have a history of outstanding career success. The course provides a very strong foundation in general horticulture (up to 350 hours) as well as specialised training in a chosen area such as propagation, landscaping or organics. 

AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITIES: After years of drought, things are now looking very bright for graduates in this type of course! Australian horticulture declined between 2003 and 2007; horticultural colleges closed and many professionals left the industry. Now the industry has turned a corner and we simply don't have enough colleges or graduates. Undertaking this course is a better bet than ever!  Talk To Us and Plan Your Career.

NB: The range of streams available for online or CD may be limited.


[More info & enrolment: Certificate In Horticulture]
Accredited through International Accreditation & recognition Council
A 700 hour course that provides initial training for gardeners, groundsmen and others involved in the care and maintenance of parks, gardens and turf facilities. This course is similar to other VHT002 horticulture certificates in its introductory (core) units, but devotes 50% of the course to topics specifically related to grounds maintenance.
[More info & enrolment: Certificate In Horticulture (Grounds Management)]
A 600 hour course designed principally for turf workers at golf courses, bowling greens, sports fields, or councils. This course is similar to other VHT002 horticulture certificates in its introductory (core) units, but devotes 50% of the course to topics specifically related to turf culture, species and management.
[More info & enrolment: Certificate In Horticulture (Turf)]
This course has been very successful in training both staff and managers of retail nurseries and garden centres. Originally designed in 1986, in conjunction with the state garden department manager of a major retail chain store; revised many times since then.
[More info & enrolment: Garden Centre Management]
Maintain a garden in perfect conditions in the most efficient way!.
Save time and resources and have the most beautiful garden nonetheless. 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.
[More info & enrolment: Garden Maintenance]
This subject aims to develop a basic understanding of the principles of plant propagation, an overview of propagation techniques and equipment and a general knowledge of the methods of propagation of the more commonly cultivated plants.
[More info & enrolment: Home Propagation]
In any business, including horticulture, success depends upon good marketing of your product. This subject covers the theoretical and practical importance of marketing in the horticultural industry, including topics such as advertizing, promotions, signs, customer relations, pricing strategy, labelling, transport, product presentation, and more.
[More info & enrolment: Horticultural Marketing]
Learn with this practical course to identify and control pest and diseases in plants, to maintain high standards of plant health, in your business or at home. Develop with this course a deep understanding of plant health, the systematic identification of health problems in plants and the techniques for control of those problems.
[More info & enrolment: Horticulture III (Plant Health)]
LEARN HOW TO INSTALL AND MAINTAIN AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM EASILY
A ten lesson course that covers the design, installation, maintenance, operation and evaluation of simple irrigation systems. This course is similar to Ag302 and Ht304, but focuses on irrigation for parks, home gardens, and other ornamental horticulture areas.
[More info & enrolment: Irrigation (Gardens)]
The following topic areas are covered:

  • Ways to optimise water efficiency
  • Scheduling irrigation for nurseries, gardens, turf and horticultural crops.
  • Drainage system design
  • Operating irrigation controllers
  • Managing system maintenance
  • Managing fertigation
  • Evaluating irrigation designs
  • Design of different systems
This course builds on skills achieved in Irrigation (Ht027, Ht304 or Ag302) modules to develop students’ skills to manage the design and operation of large scale irrigation systems for horticultural applications.
[More info & enrolment: Irrigation Management]
An introductory course which shows the beginner how to get started in the nursery business.You learn how to propagate plants, decide what to propagate, how to start a small inexpensive operation, and to go about selling what you grow. Part of every lesson is devoted to the importantarea of building up your knowledge of plants.Through six lessons you will learn how many established nurseries have started out slowlyas a small part time operation, and how youcan follow the same path. (If you intendstudying propagation and wholesale nursery management, do not do this course!).
[More info & enrolment: Nursery Growers Course]
Learn the skills for day to daywork in a production nursery. There are eleven lessons involving: The Nursery Industry - operational flowcharts, nursery standards, plant variety rights,transport regulations;plant identification, nursery structures, buildings, heating & cooling systems;potting mixes, seed propagation, cutting propagation,other propagation techniques, plant nutrition, pest & disease control, other nursery tasks and marketing and sales. This is a course designed in collaboration with nursery hands at the Greening Australia Hamel Nursery,south of Perth; and has been revised many times since. 
[More info & enrolment: Nursery Hands Course]
A study focussing on managing Economics, Planning and Marketing of operations in horticulture. Your ability to manage a business can make a huge difference to your success in horticulture. In this course, you will learn to the business side of horticulture, including how to plan and implement effective strategies for your business and/or services. This is a module in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Master of Horticulture.
[More info & enrolment: Operational Business Management I]

Develop a capacity to apply legal, contractual and staff management considerations to demonstrate informed interpretation and analysis, critical thought processes and an understanding of complex issues in relation to the management of a range of different sectors of the horticulture industry. Prerequisite: Operational Business Management I


[More info & enrolment: Operational Business Management II]
A must course for horticulturalist that want to boost their plant health and prevent damage by pests and diseases. This course develops your understanding of all types of plant diseases (fungal, viral, bacterial, non-infectious); their life cycles, and ways they can be controlled both with and without chemicals.
[More info & enrolment: Plant Pathology]
Learn to identify diseases, insects & weeds; and to select and use appropriate treatments. Control techniques and safety are both covered in detail. 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.   
[More info & enrolment: Plant Protection]
How do you learn the practical side of horticulture by distance education?  This course is the ANSWER! It really does work, particularly if done online, or on CD, where you can make full use of interactive learning tasks and coloured photography on the computer. This course has been written to satisfy curriculum developed by the Royal Horticultural Society in the UK (Advanced Certificate and Diploma level)
[More info & enrolment: Practical Horticulture 1]
A course to develop all the practical skills that you learn when working under the supervision of an horticultural expert. The course contains all the tips to develop excellent practical skills in the management of a variety of horticultural situations.
[More info & enrolment: Practical Horticulture 2]
Develop your broad skills in plant propagation.  
Plants are propagated both sexually (from two parents eg. seed & spore) and asexually (from two parents eg. cuttings, grafting, layers, division). This course deals with the principles of propagation, and all of these methods; as well as materials and equipment.

This is a module from the accredited RHS Diploma and provides credit toward IARC accredited diplomas offered both through ACS and our affiliate colleges in five countries
[More info & enrolment: Propagation I]
This course develops an understanding of environmental systems and the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes. You learn about seed collection, storage and germination, propagation, plant selection, establishment techniques, controlling pest & disease after planting.
[More info & enrolment: Trees For Rehabilitation]
Learn to identify and effectively control more than 100 weeds, to design management strategies and programs and apply control techniques efficiently and safely. In the eight lessons covered in the book you learn about both chemical and non-chemical control methods (mulching, burning, mowing), the use of spray equipment and safety procedures which should be followed.

[More info & enrolment: Weed Control]
Managing a production nursery involves more than just propagating and potting up plants. Even the small nursery must be able to not only producer plants, but do it at a pre determined cost, then sustain those plants before and during marketing.. The nursery industry currently has a real need for people with skills and knowledge in managing production plant nurseries! This course provides a solid grounding for developing those skills.
[More info & enrolment: Wholesale Nursery Management]