Students
CITY & GUILDS LAWNS, LANDSCAPES & STRUCTURES
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 an understanding of how to create a lawn from scratch and then to maintain it in peak condition, you will also learn about the correct way to lay paths and patios and construct boundaries. This course will help keen gardeners develop their knowledge whilst gaining a recognised qualification.
Entry Requirements An interest in the subject.
Location
Mottingham
Start Date Evening: Monday 21st September 2009, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Course Duration
10 weeks.
Registration Fee £30
Tuition Fee £100