Plants play an incredibly important role in all our lives by providing us with oxygen and food sources. As a horticulturist, you will need to use your scientific knowledge of plants and soil to grow a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, shrubs, flowers, and grass while considering sustainability and conservation. You may work in formal gardens or designing domestic spaces, plant, and food production working to enhance wildlife and diversity. Our courses will give you all the in-depth knowledge you need to start your career, with the option of continuing on to university study with one of our degrees at the iconic Eden Project. The course is a full-time college course with four days in college plus work experience progressing from one to two years. As a modern sustainable horticulturalist, you’ll need a range of skills including; scientific knowledge of plants, soil, pests, and diseases and a wide variety of practical skills such as planting, pruning, and hard landscaping, including experience and certificates allowing you to use a range of machinery and equipment including your PA! spraying certificate and experience using petrol and battery mowers, strimmers, hedge trimmers and more. This level 3 course is for learners who are interested in developing the specific technical and professional skills and knowledge that will lead to meaningful employment in the horticulture and landscaping industry. Learners will explore a wide range of industry areas. You will learn to design whole gardens and open spaces for the modern world, while ensuring a sustainable approach, including wildlife features, food production, hard and soft landscaping, planting sequences, and laying turf for a finished show garden. This qualification gives you the opportunity to study a range of specialist, technical and practical skills. The knowledge you learn will build upon the core skills of; safe working practices, equipment and machinery, plant identification, plant health, plant and soil science, and maintenance of turf. You can then learn further specialist skills such as; garden design, business management, ponds/water features, alpine displays, tree and shrub maintenance, constructing landscape features such as steps, paths or walls, and horticultural crop production as well as machinery use and maintenance.
Five GCSEs at grade 4 including English, maths and science.
Written exam and a synoptic assessment, as well as coursework assignments.
About Education Provider
| Region | South West |
| Local Authority | Cornwall |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Corporate Headquarters, Cornwall College St Austell, St Austell, PL25 4DJ |
Plants play an incredibly important role in all our lives by providing us with oxygen and food sources. As a horticulturist, you will need to use your scientific knowledge of plants and soil to grow a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, shrubs, flowers, and grass while considering sustainability and conservation. You may work in formal gardens or designing domestic spaces, plant, and food production working to enhance wildlife and diversity. Our courses will give you all the in-depth knowledge you need to start your career, with the option of continuing on to university study with one of our degrees at the iconic Eden Project. The course is a full-time college course with four days in college plus work experience progressing from one to two years. As a modern sustainable horticulturalist, you’ll need a range of skills including; scientific knowledge of plants, soil, pests, and diseases and a wide variety of practical skills such as planting, pruning, and hard landscaping, including experience and certificates allowing you to use a range of machinery and equipment including your PA! spraying certificate and experience using petrol and battery mowers, strimmers, hedge trimmers and more. This level 3 course is for learners who are interested in developing the specific technical and professional skills and knowledge that will lead to meaningful employment in the horticulture and landscaping industry. Learners will explore a wide range of industry areas. You will learn to design whole gardens and open spaces for the modern world, while ensuring a sustainable approach, including wildlife features, food production, hard and soft landscaping, planting sequences, and laying turf for a finished show garden. This qualification gives you the opportunity to study a range of specialist, technical and practical skills. The knowledge you learn will build upon the core skills of; safe working practices, equipment and machinery, plant identification, plant health, plant and soil science, and maintenance of turf. You can then learn further specialist skills such as; garden design, business management, ponds/water features, alpine displays, tree and shrub maintenance, constructing landscape features such as steps, paths or walls, and horticultural crop production as well as machinery use and maintenance.
Five GCSEs at grade 4 including English, maths and science.
Written exam and a synoptic assessment, as well as coursework assignments.