84 Part-time Short courses in Botany

This Professional Garden Design - Flexible Diploma from National Design Academy will teach you step by step the professional techniques required to create amazing designs for your own garden, or how to start your own garden design business or enter a new career in the industry.

This Home Hydroponics course from Warnborough College is a good starting point for those who have little experience in horticulture or hydroponics; whose main interest is in growing at home.

This Cut Flower Bulbs course from Warnborough College is for the enthusiast or commercial bulb grower, with ten lessons. Learn to grow bulbs as a flower crop indoors (in a greenhouse) or in an open field.

If you are curious about using herbs for medicinal purposes, the Medicinal Herbs course from Warnborough College will provide you with a great place to start! 

This Permaculture course from Warnborough College introduces the basic concepts of Permaculture, and develops a basis for permaculture design by explaining the patterns which occur in nature, such as weather systems, water cycles, topography, soil-plant interactions and forest ecology, and how a knowledge of these patterns can be used to reproduce balanced and productive garden growing systems. 

At the end of this Landscaping I course from Warnborough College you will be able to design a garden, and will have a foundation for further studies in specific areas of landscape design, development or management. 

This online Goat Husbandry course from Warnborough College will teach you about the ins and outs of goat husbandry – including the products they produce; like milk, wool and meat. 

After developing an understanding of the workings of natural environments in the Natural Garden Design course from Warnborough College, you learn to create innovative plans for low maintenance bush gardens. 

The Nursery Growers course from Warnborough College is an introductory course which shows the beginner how to get started in the nursery business. 

Gardening can be a lot of fun, a hobby or a job. Without an understanding of the basics though, mistakes are easily made. Time and money can be wasted doing gardening tasks incorrectly, or with the wrong equipment and materials. This Gardening Skills course from Warnborough College can be studied in your own time and is great way of learning all of the gardening essentials.

This Horticultural Research Part 2 course from Warnborough College will further develop your ability to research and present a critical, written and numerical assessment of information related to social, technological, environmental and economic issues that impact on Horticulture today. 

Join the Gardening Vertically course from Warnborough College and explore ways of growing plants in small spaces for amenity or as a crop.

This course from Warnborough College offers a detailed look at the identification and culture of Ferns. 

The Irrigation (Gardens) course from Warnborough College is a ten lesson course that covers the design, installation, maintenance, operation and evaluation of simple irrigation systems. 

Join the Garden Maintenancea course from Warnborough College and learn how to mintain a garden in perfect conditions in the most efficient way! Save time and resources and have the most beautiful garden nonetheless.

Join the Growing Annuals course from Warnborough College and become an expert with annual flowers. Learn to identify and grow them, to produce a continual blaze of colour through the seasons.

Become the gardening expert of your family with this comprehensive Home Garden Expert course from Warnborough College. 

Some of the things that you will be learning in the Warnborough College online course in Protected Plant Production will be environmental control, plant growth in protected environments and practical knowledge in specific plant husbandry techniques.

Greenhouse Cut Flowers at Warnborough College is a course for commercial cut flower growers who are concerned exclusively with greenhouse production.

Commercially lavender is grown in France, England, Spain, Italy, USA, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Japan. Each region growing species that are best suited to local conditions – many trials have been conducted world-wide to isolate the best species for specific local conditions. To learn more, join this Lavender course from Warnborough College.