Overview
You learn to design and build such things as walls, rockeries, steps, ponds, and paving; and you develop skills to create specific effects in a garden.
Aims of the Landscaping II course from Warnborough College
- Determine landscape materials readily available in the learners locality, including: soils, gravels, mulches and timbers.
- Differentiate between landscape applications for twenty different types of timber.
- Compare a range of materials in terms of function and aesthetics, including five types of mulches and five types of gravels.
- Determine applications for five different specific items of machinery in landscape construction including a chainsaw, an earth moving machine, a rotary hoe and a tractor.
- List minimum equipment required to construct two different landscapes in accordance with project specifications.
- Determine criteria for selecting plants to be planted in 3 specified locations.
- Explain the impact of trees in two specific landscapes, on both the environment and aesthetics of those landscapes.
- Determine twenty different herbaceous plants, to grow in three different specified locations within the same garden.
- Prepare a design for an annual flower display bed of 50 sq. metres.
- List five groundcovers suited to plant in four different situations, including full shade , half shade, full sun and hanging baskets.
- Prepare a planting design for a 100 sq. metre area of garden, using only groundcovers and trees.
- List ten trees suited to each of the following cultural situations, in your locality: waterlogged soil; sandy soil; heavy soil; saline soil; fire prone sites and near drainage pipes.
Programme Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 12 in-depth lessons:
- The Garden Environment
- Landscape Materials
- Using Bulbs and Annuals
- Landscaping with Trees
- Ground Cover Plants
- Walls and Fences
- Paths and Paving
- Treatment of Slopes and Other Problem Areas
- Garden Features
- Designing for Low Maintenance
- Development of a Landscape Plan
- Management of Landscape Projects
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Design Agriculture Horticulture and Crop Science View 103 other Short Courses in Design 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
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
Funding
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