Nursery & Propogation
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Learn to sucessfully run a wholesale nursery business. For people who work, or hope to work, as a supervisor, manager or owner operator of a wholesale or production nursery. This is a 600 hour covering both management and horticultural studies relating to running a wholesale nursery. There are 6 units plus a workplace project in this course. These include the 4 core units common to all streams of the Advanced Certificate (C12CN001), and two specialist units of study relating to the operation and management of wholesale nurseries. |
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Become an expert at cut flower growing. Cut flower growing has experienced rapid expansion in recent decades, resulting in increased demand for training in the skills and knowledge required by this industry in increasingly affluent countries. This course provides a thorough basic training for the commercial cut flower grower. |
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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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Plant Propagation- Become and Expert!
A 600 hour course designed principally for plant propagators. 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 plant propagation, dealing with hundreds of different.
types of plants, and methods used to propagate them.
Accredited through the International Accreditation & Recognition Council. |
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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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The basics of plant growing in the nursery business! 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 important area of building up your knowledge of plants. |
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A great course for anyone wanting to start out in the Nursery Industry. This is a course designed in collaboration with nursery hands at the Greening Australia Hamel Nursery, south of Perth. It teaches the skills for day to day work in a production nursery. There are lessons
involving the Nursery Industry and standards, plant identification, nursery structures, seed propagation, nutrition, pest & disease control, and lots more. |
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Become a fantastic nursery sales assistant! This course was developed in response to a request from a retail nurseryman who was finding it difficult to find staff with appropriate skills. As he put it, job applicants were either over qualified or lacked the basic skills needed: to be able to identify plants, advise customers on their use and to understand some basic sales techniques and procedures. |
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Develop your expertise in plant breeding! 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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A foundation in propagating plants. Develop your broad skills in plant propagation. The module is aimed primarily at people who work (or plan to) in the nursery industry, but will be of value to anyone with a broad interest in propagating plants. |
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Learn to propagate plants by tissue culturing. 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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Learn to produce great plants in a commercially successful way. Managing a production nursery involves more than just propagating and potting up plants. Even the small nursery must be able to not only produce 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 in plant nurseries! This course provides a solid grounding for developing those skills. |
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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.