Sneak Peek
Indoor Plants Short Course
Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about indoor plants.
This course teaches you how to better manage indoor plants:
What to grow where
How to grow it
How to keep it in good condition
How to detect and attend to problems
In many respects, it is "Landscaping for inside a building"
WHY?
Some people will do this course as an amateur who just wants to grow and use indoor plants better in their own home. Others though, will do this course in preparation for working with indoor plants; or to improve your ability to work with them.
OPPORTUNITIES
People work with indoor plants in various ways, including:
-Plantscaping companies - design, build and sometimes maintain indoor plantscapes
-Specialist nurseries - propagate, grow and sell indoor plants to retailers, contractors or direct to the public
-Contractors who visit (mostly commercial) buildings routinely, inspecting, carrying out maintenance, and if needed, replacing sick plants
-Environmental companies -may focus on creating better environments within a building; through a number of initiatives - and plants may be a part of their broader strategy
You don’t need to undertake all of the suggested tasks if you don’t want to; but we strongly recommend that you do some in each lesson, and that you take all of the self-assessment tests.
The more time you spend doing these things, the stronger your learning will be.
This short course covers seven lessons:
Lesson 1 Introduction
Psychological and physical benefits of plants
Where indoor plants are used
Considerations when introducing indoor plants
Groups of indoor plants
Lesson 2 Ways of growing plants inside
Containers and growing systems for indoor plants
Planters, pots or tubs
Problems with containers
Hanging baskets, hanging pots, wall baskets and planter boxes
Atriums and terrariums
Green walls
Tower gardens
Systems used for indoor plant installations
Water and watering
Watering systems
Fertigation
Potting media
Lesson 3 Planning and installation
Formulating a design approach
Design
Placing container plants
How to use colour with indoor plants
Principles of design
Design elements
Evaluating a building
Choosing the system
Environmental controls/improvements
Choosing the plants and conditioning them
Conditioning plants for indoors
Providing drainage
Installation techniques
Installing baskets and hanging pots
Installing window boxes
Atriums
Terrariums
Placing container plants
How to use colour with indoor plants
Mixing colours
Walls
Mirrors
Lesson 4 The general maintenance of indoor plants
General care
Maintenance of hanging baskets
Maintaining a terrarium
General maintenance tasks for vertical gardens
Water movement from soils to roots
Understanding soil and potting mix
Lesson 5 Pest and disease management
Identifying problems
Maintaining plant health
Symptoms and diagnosis
Lesson 6 Hardy indoor plants
Plants species that grow in low - moderate light
Plants species that grow in air conditioning
Plants species that grow in temperature extremes
Growing culinary herbs indoors in winter
Lesson 7 Air quality management and indoor plants
What is in the air?
Humidity
Pollutants
Ventilation
Plants
Plant species that grow in poor air and pollution
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it. If you do not achieve a 60% pass rate, you can contact us to re-sit your exam ( email- [email protected] )
Contact us at anytime if you have any issues with the course - [email protected]