Professional Landscape and Sustainability Operative (Horticulture) Level 2

You will learn to design whole sustainable gardens, including wildlife features, hard and soft landscaping, planting sequences and laying turf for a finished show garden. You will also learn:

Plant and soil science: An introduction into the basic botany of plants and the overview of soils and their use.

Establish and maintain plants: This unit involves ground preparation, planting, pruning, hedge cutting, plant propagation and other maintenance skills

Landscape Surfaces: A practical unit which develops skills in paving and setting out features such as hedges and garden ponds/wildlife areas.

Use and maintenance of machinery including petrol and electric mowers, leaf blowers, strimmers and tractors. The hard landscaping tasks may even require the use of mini diggers. Students will completed their PA1 spraying certificate and other competencies on this course.

Plant Propagation: This unit covers all aspects of plant propagation including seeds, cuttings and an introduction to micro propagation in our specialist micro propagation unit.

Plant Nomenclature: This will give an introduction to plant naming and identification of a range of plants, trees and shrubs.
Plant selection: Choose the correct plant for the correct place – know what to plant where depending on location, soil type, and proximity to wind and the coast.