If your garden is already the best part of your week, start here. You cover soils, plant identification, pests, water and propagation. Assignments get done in your own garden.
Nutrition, composition and why plants thrive.
Identify native and exotic species on sight.
Assignments are done in your own garden.
Nurseries, councils, garden centres and landscaping firms all need plant knowledge. The day is planting, pruning, advice and problem solving.
Advise customers on plants and care.
Run stock, propagation and the team.
Look after public gardens and green space.
Design and plant gardens for clients.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and many need more study, a licence or years on the tools.
Three things worth knowing.
Assignments are set to be done in your own beds.
Growing trees, shrubs and flowering plants from scratch.
Water management gets its own unit, beside soils and nutrition.
A provider certificate, not nationally recognised training
Issued by the provider when you finish the course.
Comes with a transcript of every unit you completed.
Practical assignments are done in a working garden, not on paper.
Tell us whether it is work or your own patch.
An advisor covers units, pace and fees.
Upfront, or a weekly plan if eligible.
Enrol and begin with soils.
You finish with a provider certificate and a full transcript. It is not nationally recognised training, so it carries no national code. An advisor can point you to accredited horticulture options too.
A Certificate of Completion, a Certificate of Attainment and a transcript.
From $30 a week, depending on the plan you qualify for.
Most take 6 to 12 months. You get 12 months of access.
It helps. Several assignments are set to be done in one.
None needed. The first module starts with soil and nutrition.
A computer and steady internet. A device can be provided if needed.
Yes, after the provider speaks with your guardian.
My Learning Online is an Australian online provider. Tutors answer six days a week, and help carries on after you finish.
Course content stays open day and night, so study fits around a job.
Picture the season everything you planted came up right.