207-252 Horticultural Practice III

This subject covers:

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

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

• • arboriculture: safely climbing and pruning trees utilising modern technologies and techniques; fundamental tree anatomy and physiology; CODIT defence strategies in trees;

  • parks and gardens management: planting design, plant and garden management, turf establishment and management, garden planning;

  • landscape construction: power tools and construction equipment, earthworks and earthmoving equipment, pavement materials and pavement construction, concrete construction (slabs and footings), retaining and free standing wall; and

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

One 90 minute written examination worth 25% of final marks, two plant materials tests worth a total of 30% of final marks and horticultural industry sector practical or written assignments (equivalent to 3000 words) worth a total of 45% of total marks.

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