Horticulture
A career in Horticulture is both fulfilling and rewarding allowing the opportunity to contribute to the quality of life both at home and abroad. Its a huge industry with diverse job opportunities in the commercial or environmental sectors as well as in research and journalism.
The horticulture industry embraces everything that involves growing plants; from gardening and landscaping to vegetable and fruit production. The best way to guarantee long term career success may be to ensure your initial training is broad based, and you have the capacity to move with relative ease from one industry sector to another as demand shifts. A career in Horticulture is both fulfilling and rewarding allowing the opportunity to contribute to the quality of life both at home and abroad
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Learn about culturing and caring for trees. This Advanced Certificate focuses on the culture and care of trees, providing a sound foundation for any 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. |
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Develop your skills and knoweledge in the care and maitenance of parks, gardens and turf facilities. A 400 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 horticulture certificates in its introductory (core) units, but devotes 50% of the course to topics specifically related to grounds maintenance. |
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Further expand your knowledge to work with turf! This course provides a very sound foundation for a career in the turf industry. Graduates may find employment in such positions as a superintendent, greens manager, sales or marketing representative or technician. |
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Gain the knowledge and skills you need to work in amenity horticulture. Explain the nature and scope of providing, establishing and managing amenity horticulture sites. This course has been developed by professionals in both Australia and the UK, with the aim of being relevant throughout the world. This is a module in the Royal Horticultural Society's Master of Horticulture. |
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Enhance your amenity horticulture knowledge. An Amenity Site is primarily used for recreation, pleasure, visual enhancement or environmental improvement rather than for the production of economic crops. Prerequisite : You must complete Amenity Horticulture I before atempting thias course. |
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A good foundation in tree care and culture. This course develops your skills and understanding in diagnosis and treatment of tree disorders, whether pests, diseases, nutritional or water problems, or something else. You learn about the standard tree surgery practices, to prune and train both young and established trees, and safety measures to follow. |
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Build on your existing aboriculture knowledge!
Develops your ability to manage trees beyond Arboriculture I, in order to minimize potential long term tree problems. Learn about better tree selection, strengthening and improving health of existing trees, and techniques used to better remove trees and stumps that must be removed. |
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Become an expert on Australian ferns.
Learn which ferns occur naturally in Australia, how to identify them, where to obtain accurate information on them, how to propagate them, growing and using ferns in baskets, terrariums, and landscapes. |
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Develop a strong horticultural knowledge base. 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 1990s, then revised recently to ensure international relevance. Graduates from this Diploma 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. |
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Reach a high level in arboriculture management.
A 600 hour course for managers and supervisors of workers in arboriculture. There are 6 modules plus a 100 hr workplace project in this course. These are the 4 core units common to all streams of this Diploma, and a choice of two specialist units of study relating to the selection and culture of plants, with an emphasis on trees. The core studies cover office practices, business operations, management and marketing. |
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Learn the skills necessary to manage a retail nursery. This course develops both skills required to manage a retail business, and knowledge in identification, care and handling of plants and other products sold through retail nurseries. It is aimed at managers and/or supervisors rather than workers. |
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Achieve excellence in your garden centre.!
Designed in 1986, in conjunction with the state garden department manager of a major retail chain store; this course has been very successful in training both staff and managers of retail nurseries and garden centres across Australia and beyond. It was thoroughly updated recently by horticultural professionals in both Australia and the U.K. to be relevant to countries around the world. |
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Learn to grow exceptional annual flowers.!
Become an expert with annual flowers. Learn to identify and grow them, to produce a continual blaze of colour through the seasons. This eight lesson course reveals the secrets of what to grow, when to grow each variety, building up the soil, controlling pests and diseases, designing the peak of perfection. |
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Higher Advanced Diploma in Horticulture
Do you work in a nursery or want to develop a career in one in a managerial position? Then this course is the best for you. This course has been specifically designed to provide excellent and applied training for people wishing to work in nurseries at a technician or management level; in positions such as nursery managers, technical representatives or consultants. |
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Would you like to care and manage parks, natural parks, holiday and recreation resort facilities? This course 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, etc. |
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Understand the needs and requiremnts to successd in amenity horticulture. This course provides training for people to work in the care and development of gardens, parks, or other areas of amenity horticulture (eg. Tree management, Turf management, interior plantscaping), at a technician or management level, in positions such as: managers, technical officers, or consultants. |
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Advance your crop farming skills! This Higher Advanced Diploma provides professional training for work at a management or technical level with horticultural crops. |
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Learn to culture plants using hydrophonics.! This is a good starting point for those who have little experience in horticulture or hydroponics; whose main interest is in growing AT HOME. This course is NOT intended for commercial growing in any way. 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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Apply hydrophonics to horticulturally valuable crops
Develop a sound understanding of the theory and practice of hydroponics. This is a serious grounding for working in the hydroponic industry and concentrates on the horticulturally valuable crops, such as cut flowers and vegetables. Written by leading international experts including John Mason and Dr Lyn Morgan. |
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Learn to culture great orchids!
Develop your knowledge of orchids, their culture and uses. Get the broad picture of what orchids are all about and learn how to improve your results and grow flowers which will be the envy of all who see them. Course developed by John Mason (author of Growing Orcjhids, published by Hyland House). Tutors include expert professional horticulturists from Australia, N.Z. and the U.K. |
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administrative skills and attention to detail. Katie is also an Arborist and is an accomplished lecturer, horticulture consultant and freelance writer. She is also a judge for the International Awards for Liveable Communities in the Whole City Category.
One of Katies more challenging positions was her appointment as Area Manager for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in France.
