Looking for information on Landscaping? Following schools offer Career Diploma programs in Landscaping. Use the 'request free information' button to receive FREE Information about the program - from as many schools as necessary to compare each of the programs and make the right decision for you.

Ashworth College

Landscape Design Course

If you love gardens, plants, trees, and the outdoors in general, you could be earning a great living and doing something you enjoy! Ashworth Career School's landscape design course is designed to be completed at home, and will give you the skills you need to secure a rewarding job or open your own landscaping design and maintenance business.

The landscaping design course covers a wide range of topics ranging from site analysis and garden design to selecting flowers and caring for a variety of plants and shrubs. Your landscape design training will start with an overview of the landscape industry and move on to lettering and drawing tools, graphic techniques, site analysis, the design process, and planting and maintaining your landscape.

You'll learn about landscape illumination and enrichments, and how to price out and quote on landscape designs. The Ashworth landscape designing course also covers the high tech end of today's landscaping industry - using computers in the design process and for video imaging, as well as for preparing estimates and bids. There are no educational prerequisites and no experience requirements to enroll.

Graduates of Ashworth's landscape design school training can start their own businesses or work for many different employers, such as:

Landscape contractors
Retail garden centers
Greenhouses
Nurseries
Clubs and resorts
Public parks and gardens

This diverse field may also include interiorscaping, which is the creation of interior gardens, courtyards and plantscapes for malls, offices, hospitals, schools and homeowners. You need no special educational background or experience in the field to enroll. Convenient home study training from Ashworth makes learning the landscaping field easy and fun. Request Free Information Package for more information.[ more info ]

Stratford Career Institute

Gardening/Landscaping

Stratford Career Institute is an innovative leader in the field of distance education. With thousands of students world-wide, SCI has earned its reputation in the delivery of career training.

SCI offers over 60 career diploma programs. The following is a comparison of traditional college education with the time-honored distance education approach to career education which Stratford offers:

Non-Traditional Colleges	Stratford's Career Training
content-based time-based group-based group needs contact with professor by appointment only course-oriented classroom-oriented professors general objectives special objectives	competency-based performance-based individually-based individual needs immediate assistance via toll-free line or e-mail module-oriented home-based team of instructors, counsellors and resource persons special objectives objective learning assignments

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Penn Foster Career School

Professional Landscaper Program

Learn the skills you need to become a Professional Landscaper - at home, at your own pace with Penn Foster. There are certain skills you need to begin a career as a Professional Landscaper. The Penn Foster Professional Landscaper Program helps you learn them quickly and conveniently. You'll learn about:

Plant health, soil, and fertilizers

Servicing garden tractors and other tools used in landscaping

Creating landscaping designs using shrubs and ground covers

Specialty landscaping, starting and operating your own landscaping business

And you'll learn it all at home - no classroom needed!

This Penn Foster distance learning program is like having your own personal landscaping school. Start a challenging, moneymaking career as a Professional Landscaper. Why complete a training program in Professional Landscaping? With the right credentials, you can:

Work for an established landscaping firm or start your own business.

Complete your training in as little as six months from today, or take longer if you wish.

Penn Foster's courses are very competitively priced. And with the choice of upfront payment option or low monthly installments, you can afford the course you want. Many courses are also Austudy/Abstudy approved which means that if you qualify, you can apply for financial assistance from the government. Plus, your course may be tax deductible.

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