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Courses
Jacob's The eLearning
Centre proudly offers the most comprehensive collection of
online continuing education courses from the world's best eLearning
companies and authors. Through partnerships with respected online
training corporations and institutions across the globe we provide
self-study courses with open enrollment in nearly every subject
imaginable. Given below are the brief course descriptions of
Horticulture,
Landscaping,
Garden
Design, and
Garden Maintenance.
Horticulture
Distance learning course of 14 lessons
The growing of plants and understanding of the make-up of the soil
and the best way to ensure you maximise the ground around you is a
skill a lot of us want to know. The course provides the skills and
knowledge needed to better understand this complex subject.
Course Outline
Basic Botany
Plant Classification
Soil Science
Plant Nutrition
Plant Pests, Diseases & Problems
Organic Gardening
Weeds
Basic Propagation
Amenity Horticulture, Plant Groups and Families
Planting and Plant Care
Plant Notes and Indigenous Plants
Exotic Plants
Indoor Plants
Lawns
Tutor Support
With this course you will have unlimited access to your own personal
tutor who specialises in their field of study. It is your personal
tutor's role to ensure that you receive constructive feedback and to
deal with any queries you may have. You are more than welcome to
telephone, fax or email your personal tutor.
You will also have access to a dedicated and friendly team of
administrators and course advisors who offer sound and professional
guidance and advice when you need it. This ensures that you will
never feel neglected and that you will always succeed!
Course Certification
Diploma in Horticulture
All students will receive a certificate in the mail on successful
completion of their course.
Landscaping
Do you watch the TV gardening programmes and wonder how you could be
as diverse as the presenters are with the different garden designs
they come up with? Our course in Landscaping will provide you with
the skills to set you on this road to success.
The course aims to develop a solid understanding of the principles
and procedures underlying the design and development of garden
areas. The subject is relevant to both public and private
landscaping and equally of value in developing home gardens or
public parks. Though consideration is given to both design and
construction, the emphasis throughout the course is landscape design
itself.
Course Outline
Basic Design Procedure
History of Gardening Styles
Draughting and Contracting
Basic Landscape Construction
Surfacings, Furnishings and Features
How to Make Trails
Tools and Machinery
Earthworks
Cottage Garden Features
More on Tools and Machinery
Tutor Support
With this course you will have unlimited access to your own personal
tutor who specialises in their field of study. It is your personal
tutor's role to ensure that you receive constructive feedback and to
deal with any queries you may have. You are more than welcome to
telephone, fax or email your personal tutor.
You will also have access to a dedicated and friendly team of
administrators and course advisors who offer sound and professional
guidance and advice when you need it. This ensures that you will
never feel neglected and that you will always succeed!
Course Certification
Landscaping Diploma
All students will receive a certificate in the mail on successful
completion of their course.
Garden
Design
Distance learning course of 12 lessons
Explore the art of garden design in this comprehensive course. You
will learn the fundamental elements of style, basic techniques and
professional tricks necessary to design the gardens of your dreams.
Professional garden design is something that is inspirational and is
essentially solving the various logistical problems associated with
what you have to work with, where to position such items as
pathways, swimming pools, tennis courts, water features, flower beds
and which plants would be most suited. Good garden design adds these
ingredients to create a style in keeping with the site, the house
and your client's requirements.
The whole process of design begins long before you put pen to paper.
Your initial job is to find out just what you have and then what you
want to achieve based on this initial fact finding.
Once this basic analysis is completed, you can then move on to the
fun job of preparing the design.
Course Outline
Introduction - Garden Design Influences
Client-Designer Relationship - The Basic Principles of Garden Design
Planning the Garden
Taking measurements
Drawing the Plan
Preparing the garden
Equipment, Tools, Soil and Irrigation
Surfaces
Lawns and Steps
Planting
Garden features
Costing and estimation
Tutor Support
With this course you will have unlimited access to your own personal
tutor who specialises in their field of study. It is your personal
tutor's role to ensure that you receive constructive feedback and to
deal with any queries you may have. You are more than welcome to
telephone, fax or email your personal tutor.
You will also have access to a dedicated and friendly team of
administrators and course advisors who offer sound and professional
guidance and advice when you need it. This ensures that you will
never feel neglected and that you will always succeed!
Vendor
Stonebridge is one of the largest distance learning colleges in the
World.
Course Certification
On completion of this course you will receive two
qualifications:
Qualification 1: Garden Design Diploma issued by Stonebridge
Associated Colleges, entitling you to use the letters SAC. Dip.
(Garden Design)
Qualification 2: ASET Level 3 Garden Design Award
All students will receive a certificate in the mail on successful
completion of their course.
Garden Maintenance
Distance learning course of 10 lessons
This subject aims to provide you with a firm basis for maintaining a
garden in a healthy and presentable state.
Garden maintenance is a diverse area of study, sometimes thought of
as being the mundane side of horticulture, though in fact it is
today quite technical and a very critical area of concern.
Course Outline
Planning and Managing a Garden
Furnishings and Machinery
Feeding Plants
Weed Control
Weedicides
Natural Pest Control
Chemical Pest Control
Turf Care
Irrigation
Maintenance of Plants
Tutor Support
With this course you will have unlimited access to your own personal
tutor who specialises in their field of study. It is your personal
tutor's role to ensure that you receive constructive feedback and to
deal with any queries you may have. You are more than welcome to
telephone, fax or email your personal tutor.
You will also have access to a dedicated and friendly team of
administrators and course advisors who offer sound and professional
guidance and advice when you need it. This ensures that you will
never feel neglected and that you will always succeed!
Course Certification
Diploma in Garden Maintenance
All students will receive a certificate in the mail on successful
completion of their course.
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