Free BTEC Level 3 Horticulture Course in Tonbridge. Classes run at Hadlow College, full-time over two years.
The course covers four career paths in horticulture. These are production horticulture, garden design, hard and soft landscaping, and garden amenity maintenance. You'll study plant science, soil management, crop growing, and site surveying. You'll also learn how to prepare garden design briefs for clients. The course gives you the skills to work across the industry or start your own garden maintenance business.
You'll finish with a Pearson Edexcel BTEC National Diploma in Horticulture.
This course covers a wide range of Horticultural subjects and is aimed at four distinct careers paths within the Horticultural industry: production horticulture, garden design, hard and soft landscaping, and garden amenity maintenance. On completion of the course the students will have the knowledge and skills to start their own garden maintenance company, undertake site surveying and garden design briefs for clients, grow a variety of crops in an environmental commercial situation for clients/garden centres and to landscape clients' gardens from building walls, nurseries, concreting, raised beds, fencing and paving. Students will, as part of the course, have responsibility to maintain the public gardens at Broadview, as well as be involved in the new gardens. They will gain supervisory experience through assisting some groups within the gardens and be responsible for some horticultural crop production.
In addition, all Level 3 students will have the opportunity to undertake the learning and assessment of the RHS Level 2 Certificate in Practical Horticulture. Achievement of this Level 2 qualification is subject to an additional registration, assessment and certification fee which will require self-funding by all students. Cost information will be provided nearer the time along with payment options
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