Enhance Your Landscaping Knowledge
It is assumed that those who study this course have some prior knowledge or understanding of landscaping principles. The course is less generic than our Landscaping I course. Instead the focus is on components of garden design such as surfaces, enclosures (walls and fences), and garden features. You'll discover how these can be used effectively in design and we'll go into the use of plants in great detail.
Study this course to add to your landscaping knowledge. You will also get to produce your own landscape designs incorporating what you've learnt and learn about strategies and methods for overseeing landscape projects. Upon completion you will have greater confidence in choosing landscape components and fitting them together in design.
What You Will Learn
There are twelve lessons in this subject as follows:
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
Workload
Study when, where and however much you want. For most students, the course can be completed with a total of around 100 hours of study; and a commitment close to that may be needed to achieve desired learning outcomes.
Extra Reading
The following books, available through this web site may be relevant supplementary reading for this course
- Garden Design I
- Garden Design II
Assessment
Self Assessment Tests are presented throughout the course. These are essentially an automated quiz. When you undertake a "SAT" or "Self Assessment Test", you will be able to see what you got correct, and what was incorrect; and in that way, you can identify your weaknesses.
Assignments are given at the end of each lesson. You should complete this assignment, paying careful attention to follow what is asked of you. It can be just as important to learn to work to specification, as it is to learn about the topic you are studying. Graduates who develop a habit of working to specification in the field of human behaviour, will impress employers, and will be more efficient when self employed.
A Final Exam is offered upon satisfactory completion of all assignments. This is optional. If you choose to apply for and do this exam, you will have the possibility of obtaining a "formal credit" or "Pass Certification" for this course. A fee applies. The exam may be sat under prearranged conditions anywhere in the world. This college will award you a formal transcript, upon successful completion of the exam, as proof of your results.
Recognition and Ethics
This college is a member of the ACS Affiliates Network; a group of colleges from several countries, affiliated with each other through ACS Distance Education.. Courses are developed with input from all of these colleges, aspiring to reflect internationally accepted standards and needs.
A strict "No Plagiarism" and "No fraud" policy exists. Assignments are checked for plagiarism, and assignments will not be deemed to have been completed, if work is not your own original creation, and is found to have been copied from elsewhere. If the person doing the course is discovered to be different to the name enrolled, the enrolment and any results will be recorded as invalid and any fees paid will be forfeited.
Refund Policy
A full refund less expenses (up to 15% of fees applied) is provided to anyone wishing to withdraw from a course, within 2 weeks of enrolment. This does not apply after the first assignment has been submitted and marked; or after the two weeks has expired.
WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS INSTITUTION?
We believe that we have an ethical responsibility to make good use of the fees you pay and the time you invest into an education through our college. To this end, our first priority is always your learning. This comes before issues such as formal accreditations, speculative marketing and bureaucratic processes which all too often add considerable costs to the running of colleges, and take resources away from the provision of more valuable services to the student.
This college focuses on facilitating your learning and support to optimise that learning. We recognise that learning is all about improving knowledge and skills in your long term memory. While some colleges may focus on getting you to pass exams, by committing knowledge to short term memory; we understand that such an approach is not true education, and does little to improve your long term career or business prospects.
How This Course Could Help You
This course is ideal for gardeners and landscape gardeners alike. It is an ideal module for people wishing to gain insight into landscaping for purposes of setting up in business or as a self-employed landscape gardener. Landscaping II is a natural addition to our Landscaping I course.
Study this course by itself or along with other landscaping or horticulture modules as part of a certificate or higher level qualification.