207-252 Horticultural Practices III

This subject covers:

• studies of horticultural plants based on garden styles and landscape themes;

• technical issues and practical activities in a specific horticultural industry sector:

• • arboriculture: safely climbing and pruning trees by utilising modern technologies and techniques;

  • parks and gardens: planting design, parks and gardens resource planning, development of standards and specifications, horticultural contracting, turf management;

  • landscape construction: landscape construction, concrete construction (slabs and footings), retaining and free standing walls, bricklaying, step and ramp construction; and

  • nursery: propagation and production management, growing media, micro-propagation, comparative irrigation systems

One two-hour written examination worth 25% of final marks, two plant materials tests worth a total of 30% of final marks and practical assessments worth a total of 35% of total marks.

• Burnley College, University of Melbourne, Version 1.05, Burnley Plant Directory (Database) 2000. Burnley College, University of Melbourne.