Course overview
This course is ideal if you want a hands-on career working outdoors building and maintaining outdoor spaces and gardens.This course offers you variety throughout the year in the tasks that will be carried out from building patios and fences to using landscape machinery and plantsmanship. You will gain skills in both hard and soft landscaping from paving to planting and develop your knowledge of machinery including strimmers, mowers and rotavators.During the course, you will be encouraged to take part in a work placement in order to support your learning at college. Work placements support learning by providing opportunities for you to apply knowledge to practice, receive feedback, and reflect on your own experience.You will learn how to establish and maintain plants outdoors through ground preparation, planting, plant maintenance and health. You will develop an understanding in turf maintenance and learn about the basics of plant and soil science. Using a landscape plan, you will set out and construct foundations and surfaces.You will study at our specialist eco-friendly Taylor Hill Animal Care Centre, which is fully equipped with everything you will need to be able to study both effectively and successfully.
