Overview
You learn about the standard tree surgery practices, to prune and train both young and established trees, and safety measures to follow.
Aims of the Arboriculture course from Warnborough College
- Describe measures to provide healthy trees in different situations, including appropriate plant selection.
- Explain tree biology, including morphology, anatomy and physiology, as it relates to arboriculture.
- Develop procedures to manage soils for improved tree growth.
- Develop procedures for managing health disorders with trees, including environmental, pest and disease problems.
- Determine surgical techniques commonly used in arboriculture to repair damage to plants
- Explain tree surgery techniques commonly used in arboriculture to prune growth.
- Determine appropriate equipment for arboricultural practice.
- Determine appropriate workplace health and safety practices for an arboricultural workplace
Examples of what you might do on this course
- Distinguish between plants in order to identify different trees.
- Develop a standard tree report form customised for surveying the condition and use of trees in y
- our locality.
- Prepare plant reviews, naming and describing many different trees.
- Explain how to treat three specified soil related problems that can effect trees.
- Investigate a specific horticultural workplace (eg. a park or tree plantation) and determine the requirements for a tree survey program.
- Using diagrams, show the difference between the way phloem and xylem function.
- Explain the physiological processes which cause a tree to increase in size.
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- Tree Biology
- Soils In Relation To Trees
- Diagnosing Tree Problems
- Tree Surgery
- Pruning Of Trees
- Arboricultural Equipment
- Workplace Health and Safety.
Key information
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Forestry View 7 other Short Courses in Forestry in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Tuition Fee
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International
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National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme
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