Students
CITY & GUILDS CERTIFICATE IN PRACTICAL GARDENING (LEVEL 2)
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.
Suitable for beginner and improving gardeners, this course covers plant identification; the planting and maintenance of beds and borders; trees, shrubs and hedges; ponds and water features as well as plant propagation methods and techniques. There are practical assessments throughout the course and appropriate PPE must be worn.
Entry Requirements An interest in the subject.
Location
Canterbury, Hadlow, Medway - Cozenton Nursery, Rainham, Mottingham
Start Date Hadlow: Daytime: Wednesday 23rd September 2009, 9:00am - 1:00pm Canterbury: Daytime: Monday 21st September 2009, 10:00am - 2:00pm Mottingham: Daytime: Tuesday 22nd September 2009, 10:00am - 2:00pm Cozenton Nursery: Daytime: Friday 25th September 2009, 9:30am - 1:30pm
Course Duration
30 weeks.
Registration Fee £120
Tuition Fee £375