Students
CITY & GUILDS PLANT PROPAGATION
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.
Providing students with everything they ever need to know about growing plants from seed, this course covers the principles of plant propagation and looks at a variety of different methods. You will be taught the correct way to take cuttings as well as how to divide, layer and graft.
Entry Requirements An interest in the subject.
Location
Canterbury, Medway - Cozenton Nursery, Rainham, Mottingham
Start Date Canterbury: Daytime: Friday 25th September 2009, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Mottingham: Evening: Monday 11th January 2010, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Cozenton Nursery: Daytime: Friday 15th January 2010, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Course Duration
10 weeks.
Registration Fee £30
Tuition Fee £100