Considering a Horticulture Course?
A horticulture course is a great choice for anyone who loves nature and growing all kinds of plants. The course will help you to gain an understanding of design considerations for parks, sports facilities and gardens. It is can be a very fascinating course to learn about also as knowing about horticulture can enhance the built environment and the knowledge of this topic can help us to deepen our connection to the natural world. Horticulture courses are currently run by many course providers and universities and they are available in full-time, part-time and evening class options, in person and online.
What is Horticulture?
Horticulture is the art and science of the development, sustainable production, marketing and use of high-value, intensively cultivated ornamental plants and food. Horticultural crops are diverse; they include perennial and annual species, delicious vegetables and fruits, and decorative landscape and indoor plants. These specialty crops help sustain and enrich our lives by providing nutritious food, enhancing the beauty of our communities and homes and reducing our carbon footprint. Horticulture also contributes to the quality of life and the beauty, rehabilitation and sustainability of our environment and the human condition.
What Will I Learn?
The course will allow you to gain an understanding of the design considerations for parks, gardens and sports facilities. There are expanding opportunities in improved food production in the global world and in creating public recreational spaces that are more environmentally friendly. There is also a growing concern among consumers about environmental issues such as the quality of the food we are eating, the environment cost of its production, the level of pollution in our living spaces, the impacts of climate change and the loss of green spaces and various other amenities. You will develop an understanding of these issues and enable them to address these issues in the context of horticulture.
Plant identification and classification, practical horticulture, equipment and machinery skills are some of the aspects of horticulture covered in the course. In addition, the course will explore soil science, plant biology and physiology, plant nutrition and plant propagation. The course will educate you on landscape design, landscape construction, horticultural business and horticultural law, contracts and tenders. You will learn about turfgrass management, plant protection and vegetable production. Horticulture courses give students a good foundation in the use of information technology too in teamwork, horticulture, research and project development.
Career Opportunities
After completing your horticulture course, you can achieve careers that surround garden and landscape design, management and establishment of green spaces, sports surfaces, food crop production, horticultural therapy, ornamental plant production, nursery stock and garden centre management. There is also considerable scope for self-employment as garden maintenance and landscape contractors, florists and specialist growers. In addition, there are increasing opportunities in the area of community development whereby horticulture can be used to assist social cohesion. You could also work as a practitioner of horticulture.
If you’re serious about doing a horticulture course, check out courses near you in the Nightcourses.co.uk national course finder.
