Learn the skills you need to become a Landscaper - at home, at your own pace with Penn Foster. There are certain skills you need to begin a career as a Landscaper. The Penn Foster 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 Landscaper. Why complete a training program in 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 tuition is among the lowest of all career schools and includes all of your books, study guides, and learning aids. And, Penn Foster offers 0% APR financing and customized payment plans to best meet your individual need.

Get more information today and in a few months from enrollment, you can be on your way to a career as a certified landscaper!

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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 ]