Plant Varieties Courses


Plant variety courses for careers or special interests in horticulture. Become an expert on your favourite plant.
Gain skills and knowledge in a plant variety with practical experience. Our courses offer variety, flexible options with support from expert plantsmen, botanists and professional horticulturists

  
Acacias

Become an Acacia Expert -learn to identify, grow and use Acacias; for landscaping, soil rehabilitation and even food.

8 lessons
100 hours
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African Violets

Learn about African Violets and other Gesneriads - Home Study - Develop a career, follow a passion.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Australian Native Ferns

Learn more about Australian native ferns. Study from home and at your own pace. Suitable for amateur enthusiastic and commercial grows or those students who wa...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Australian Natives I

Learn about Australian native plants online, their identification and culture - trees, acacias, grevilleas, myrtaceous plants, ground covers and more; as well a...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Australian Natives II

Study Australian native plants: learn about ground covers, climbers, creepers, native shrubs, how to identify and grow native Australian plants, by distance ed...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Azaleas & Rhododendrons

Learn to identify and grow azaleas and rhododendrons; vireyas, mollis, trees, shrubs, etc - for career or follow your passion.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Bonsai

Learn to create different styles of bonsai. Choose suitable plants, train and maintain them to produce a work of living art. An in-depth course for passionate a...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Botany I (Plant Physiology And Taxonomy)

Learn about plant physiology and taxonomy. For anyone working with plants, including horticulturalists, agriculturalists, environmental managers and plant scien...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Bush Tucker Plants

Learn about edible Australian native plants: how to identify, grow and use them. Covers a huge range of edibles including roots, berries, nuts, flowers and vege...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Cacti & Succulents

Study cacti and succulents - Identify more cultivars, choose what to grow, manage plants for heathier better growth.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Carnivorous Plants

Learn to identify, propagate, grow and use carnivorous plants - work with them, or follow your passion.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Certificate in Plantsmanship

Become a professional plantsman. Training as a horticulturists, nurserymen, environmental managers. Unique in depth course for skills that set you apart among ...

6 modules
600 hours
Certificate
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Conifers

Learn about growing conifers with this online course. Understand more about how conifers are classified and how you would use this tree in landscaping for a uni...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Eucalypts

Learn about Eucalyptus: their identification, culture (propagation, soils, landscape uses, feeding), and uses. Study by distance education with ACS.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Ferns

Learn all about ferns! Understand how to identify, propagate and grow ferns. A course for nurserymen, gardeners, landscapers and other horticultural professiona...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Flowering Shrubs

Learn to identify and grow a wide variety of shrubs. Horticulture training for gardeners, landscapers, environmentalists, farmers, nurserymen.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Fuchsias

Study fuchsias by distance education. Learn about hundreds of species, cultivars and hybrids: as a nurseryman, gardener, plant breeder, collector or someone sta...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Growing Annuals

Learn how to identify, grow and use annual plants. A useful course for passionate home gardeners or professional horticulturists.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Growing Camellias

Study camellias online. Japonicas, sasanquas, reticulatas and their special characteristics, and culture. Also covers soils, feeding, watering, pruning, plantin...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Growing Carnations

Study carnations by distance learning - Learn about Dianthus species, cultivars and hybrids; growing them as cut flowers or landscape plants : for work, busines...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Growing Grevilleas

Growing Grevilleas, Growing these Proteaceae shrub, ground cover and tree plantsBecome an expert on Grevilleas. This course provides a thorough grounding in ide...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Growing Iris

Learn all about growing iris for cut flowers, grow as garden or container plants -Become an Irise Expert -for work, career, business or just a passion.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Interior (Indoor) Plants

Learn to grow indoor plants or houseplants. Choose the best plant cultivars and know how to look after them in an interior environment. A 100 hour course, sel...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Orchid Culture

Learn to identify and grow a wide range of orchids including Cattleya, Dendrobium, Cymbidium, Phalaenopsis, Vanda. Online orchid course with 100 hours of self p...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Palms & Cycads

Learn all about growing palms and cycads in this 100 hour distance education course tutored by horticultural experts.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Pelargoniums and Geraniums

Study Geraniums and Pelargoniums at home. 100 hour course enthusiasts and horticulturists. Developed by John Mason author of Geraniums & Pelargoniums, publishe...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Perennials

Learn to grow perennial plants, identify and select the best cultivars, design perennial gardens and more, studying from home

8 lessons
100 hours
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Proteas

Learn to identify, propagate and cultivate proteas and some of their relatives - as garden plants or cut flowers. For passionate gardeners or professional horti...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Roses

Identify, propagate, grow lots of different roses -run a rose farm, rose nursery or create rose gardens. -everything about roses in one course for the rose enth...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Tropical Plants

Learn all you need to know about tropical plants with this 100 hour distance education course tutored by experienced and qualified horticulturists.

10 lessons
100 hours
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