Planting What Where

Improve your knowledge of plant selection so you can make better choices of what to plant where as a landscaper or gardener.

Course Code: SGH3
Fee Code: SG
Duration (approx) Duration (approx) 20 hours
Qualification Certificate of Completion
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Learn to Choose appropriate plants for whatever situation you are planting into.

Lesson Structure

There are 13 lessons in this course:

  1. Strategies for Selecting Plants
  2. Establishment Methods and Planting
  3. Problems with Plants during the Establishment Period
  4. Planting Solutions for Wet Areas
  5. Shade Plants and Gardening
  6. Growing Windbreaks, Hedges and Screens
  7. Dry Garden Plants
  8. Coastal Plants
  9. General Trees and Shrubs
  10. Fitting More into a Small Garden
  11. Plants for Various Situations
  12. Lawn Establishment
  13. Living Garden Art

How Your Course Works

  1. Enrol any time. Your enrolment will be processed usually within a day or two; and during business hours, often within an hour.
  2. You will then receive an email explaining the course and how to access to a study guide, and our help desk. The guide contains both an audio and written explanation of how the course can be undertaken in a way where you can choose to emphasise or de-emphasise aspects of your learning, according to where your greatest interest or needs may lay.
  3. You then follow the study guide, reading and undertaking varied learning tasks, designed by professional educators to broaden and deepen your understanding of the subject. These tasks can vary from practicals to research and more.
  4. If and when you need to; you can contact our academic staff via a help desk. Emails are answered every working day.
  5. On concluding each lesson, you are presented with a series of automated self assessment questions, to review and reinforce your learning experience.
  6. On conclusion of all lessons; you are presented with a major online exam; comprising lots of questions, reflecting the scope of all lessons.
  7. A final exam is able to be tackled in completion of all lessons; and when you feel comfortable and confident of having understood and retained most of what has been studied.
  8. The exam is assessed in our online training system immediately it is submitted; and if you achieve a result of 60% or more, you are given access to download a “Certificate of Completion” This certificate carries your name (extracted from the original enrolment order); together with a current date, and carrying endorsements from this school and the ACS Global Partners Network.

    Everything is automatic; but if you do need help at any point along your journey of discovery; but there is a help desk, with real people who have real expertise –only an email away.



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