BSc (Hons) MEDICINAL HORTICULTURE

Resources

• Extensive glasshouse facilities
  
• Field nursery stock production
  
• Computer controlled environmental and irrigation systems
  
• Fruit and container production units
  
• Plant propagation centre
  
• Fully equipped landscape training centre
  
• Demonstration garden for leading national retailers
  
• Fully labelled plant collectiopn throughout the College grounds
  
• 10 acres of landscaped gardens and two National Collections within Broadview Gardens
  
• Fully commercial garden centre
  

Typical Employers
Local authorities, nurseries, garden centres, publicly and privately owned gardens, commercial landscaping companies.

Industry Links

Students benefit from a wide range of links with commercial nurseries, research institutes, organic producers, public and privately owned gardens as well as exposure to the retail world through our onsite garden centre. The College is also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; NCCPG and the Hardy Plant Society.

More about Horticulture, Landscape & Design Courses faculty

With an increased awareness surrounding the health giving properties of fruit and vegetables, and the main stream phenomenon of herbal medicines, this programme provides students with in-depth knowledge and practical skils in plant propagation and production. You will focus on plants with medicinal properties and gain an understanding  of a variety of horticultural practices. This knowledge is supported by the science of growing to maximise production, the chemical skills to extract and analyse plant compounds and the application to the human body.

The final year includes the study of ethobotany, ethics and professional practice and crop production technologies, as well as a research project.

UCAS Course Code: DB43 H BSc/MHort

Entry Requirements

160 UCAS points: 2 A levels at Grade C or above or a National Diploma at PMM or equivalent in appropriate subjects.

Additional Experience
Life experiences are taken into account when considering applications.

Location
Hadlow

Course Duration
Full time: 3 years (4 years with a sandwich year), 3 days per week. Part time: 4 years, 2 days per week.

Course Content

Year 1

• Plant science
  
• Human physiology and nutrition
  
• Protected and ornamental cropping 1
  
• Medicinal plant production
  
• Chemistry for medicinal horticulture
  
• Principles of management
  
• Protected and ornamental cropping 2
  
• Medicinal plant production and mechanisation

Year 2

• Industrial placement (optional)

Year 3

• Horticulture resource planning
• Medicinal plants and their compounds 1
• Intensive medicinal crop production
• Production science
• Crop physiology
• Croip thesis

Year 4

• Medicinal plants and their compounds 2
• Ethics and professional practice
• Current issues
• Project
• A choice of:
• International horticulture or Ethnobotany
• Environmental crop technology or Plant productivity and crop yield

This programme is recognised by the Institute of Horticulture as leading towards membership.

Assessment Method
Coursework (assignments, written reports, case studies and presentations) as well as final examinations.

Progression Routes
Successful students may progress onto a related MSc or PhD programme. Alternatively, a degree in Medicinal Horticulture opens up many career opportunities within the production, marketing, international trade and associated sectors.

Specialist Equipment Needed
Protective clothing, footwear, a horticultural knife and secateurs.

• How to apply