207-253 Horticultural Practice IV

This subject includes:

• project studies of horticultural plants based on a plant genus or group within a plant genus; and

• technical, design, planning and management issues relating to a specific horticultural industry sector:

  • arboriculture: establishing, maintaining and managing trees that enhance urban and other human environments;

  • parks and gardens: parks planning and management, garden history, horticultural therapy;

  • landscape construction: bricklaying, soil water movement and drainage construction, rock and water in the landscape, ornamental pond construction, step construction;

  • nursery: materials handling, production scheduling, production nursery design, trials organisation and management, specialist production enterprises, nursery retailing and marketing, greenhouse management issues.

One oral presentation incorporating a written synopsis to 1500 words (plant materials) worth 15% of final marks, one final 2-hour examination worth 35% of final marks, and practical assessment or two written assessments equivalent to 2000 words each, worth 50% of final marks.

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