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Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Wholesale Nursery)
€1180.00
Do you want to sucessfully run a wholesale nursery business? This course is ideal for people who work, or hope to work, as a supervisor, manager or owner operator of a wholesale or production nursery. This comprehensive course is divided into six units (plus a workplace project), covering both the management and horticultural studies that relate to running a wholesale nursery. 4 core units are common to all streams of the Advanced Certificate (C12CN001), whilst two of the units specialise in this field.
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Cutting Propagation BHT211
€295.00
Build on your expertise with cut flower growing! This sector of horticulture has grown rapidly over recent times, and you'll find in most affluent countries there is increased demand for individuals that are proficiently trained. This course provides a fantastic foundation for the commercial cut flower grower.
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Diploma In Applied Management (Retail Nursery) VBS001
€1770.00
Discover the key skills needed for managing a retail nursery. Through this comprehensive course, you'll develop crucial knowledge in the identification, care and handling of plants sold through retail nurseries. It is perfect for those in management or supervisory roles!
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Diploma in Horticulture (Propagation) VHT002
€1770.00
Become an expert in Plant Propagation! This comprehensive course, lasting 600 hours, focuses on hundreds of different types of plants, and the techniques used to propagate them. Whilst half of the course is devoted to this area, the other half has core units that are similar to other VHT002 horticulture certificates. Accreditation has been given via the "International Accreditation & Recognition Council".
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Garden Centre Management BHT213
€295.00
Want your garden centre to prosper? After its conception in 1986, this course has proved incredibly useful for training both the staff and managers in retail nurseries and garden centres across Australia and beyond. Recently it was given a major update by horticultural professionals in both Australia and the UK, in order to maintain global relevance in modern times.
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Nursery Growers Course VHT101
€295.00
The basics of plant growing in the nursery business! An introductory course which shows the beginner how to get started in the nursery business. You learn how to propagate plants, decide what to propagate, how to start a small inexpensive operation, and to go about selling what you grow. Part of every lesson is devoted to the important area of building up your knowledge of plants.
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Nursery Hands Course VHT102
€295.00
A great course for anyone wanting to start out in the Nursery Industry. This is a course designed in collaboration with nursery hands at the Greening Australia Hamel Nursery, south of Perth. It teaches the skills for day to day work in a production nursery. There are lessons involving the Nursery Industry and standards, plant identification, nursery structures, seed propagation, nutrition, pest & disease control, and lots more.
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Nursery Sales Assistant VHT103
€295.00
Become a fantastic nursery sales assistant! This course was developed in response to a request from a retail nurseryman who was finding it difficult to find staff with appropriate skills. As he put it, job applicants were either over qualified or lacked the basic skills needed: to be able to identify plants, advise customers on their use and to understand some basic sales techniques and procedures.
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Plant Breeding BHT236
€295.00
Develop your expertise in plant breeding! Plant breeding is a bigger industry than most people realize. In some places, earnings from plant breeding rights can equal or exceed earnings from actually producing plants. Today's nurseryman needs to understand plant breeding and selection; and to this end, this course is a very valuable and unique course for anyone working in the modern industry.
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Propagation I BHT108
€295.00
A foundation in propagating plants. Develop your broad skills in plant propagation. The module is aimed primarily at people who work (or plan to) in the nursery industry, but will be of value to anyone with a broad interest in propagating plants.
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Tissue Culture BHT306
€295.00
Learn to propagate plants by tissue culturing. Tissue culture involves growing plants from very small sections (sometimes microscopic) in a laboratory. It is a propagation method which is being increasingly used. Tissue culture is not appropriate for many plants, but for others such as orchids, some indoor plants and in particular, many new plant varieties, it is a very popular propagation method.
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Wholesale Nursery Management BHT212
€295.00
Learn to produce great plants in a commercially successful way. Managing a production nursery involves more than just propagating and potting up plants. Even the small nursery must be able to not only produce plants, but do it at a pre determined cost, then sustain those plants before and during marketing. The nursery industry currently has a real need for people with skills and knowledge in managing production in plant nurseries! This course provides a solid grounding for developing those skills.
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