Why Study this Tropical Plants Course?

Are you interested in tropical plants? Do you want to learn the different types of tropical plants and how to grow them? Then this course is for you! This online tropical plants course will teach you the cultural practices that plants need, the types of tropical plants and their taxonomy, the common problems one may face and how to prevent them, how to grow tropical plants outside the tropic, and more.

 

Distance Learning Tropical Plants Course

“Grow tropical plants! An instructive course”

This course provides valuable instruction for growing plants in warm places or in protected places such as greenhouses and inside homes or offices.

This is a course for amateurs and professionals; interior plantscapers and designers, plant collectors and breeders, nurserymen, botanists, landscapers, gardeners and horticulturists.

Course Outline

This course has 10 lessons:

1. Introduction to Tropical Plants

  • What does the term “tropical” mean?
  • What tropicals grow where you live?
  • Plant names/classification (scientific and common).
  • Species, hybrids, varieties and cultivars.
  • Growing Tropical Plants in different climates: tropical, sub tropical, arid and temperate.
  • Climatic Variations; seasons, mountains, savannahs, rainforest, coastal.
  • Gardening for Warm Climates and Microclimates.
  • Good and Bad News about Tropical Gardening.
  • Heat Traps, Warming a Garden, Greenhouses.

2. Plant Cultural Practices

  • Common Gardening Problems.
  • Understanding soils, naming a soil, texture, pH, fertility, nutrition, feeding.
  • Water and Plant Growth.
  • Water deficiency and excess symptoms.
  • Water Dynamics in a Soil.
  • Planting and Plant Establishment Methods.
  • Light Requirements.
  • Mulches.
  • Tree Guards.
  • Weeds.
  • Propagation, cutting, seed, propagating media.
  • Potting Mixes, Potting up, Caring for young plants.
  • Pruning etc.

3. Tropical Annuals, Perennials, Bulbous Plants, Bamboos And Lawns

  • Bamboos, Grasses and Grass Like Plants.
  • Landscaping with Bamboos.
  • Review of Bamboo species.
  • Review of other herbaceous tropicals, including: Achmines, Agapanthus, Alocasia, Amorphophallus,Aristea, Babiana, Boophone, Brunsvigia, Caladium, Calaqthea, Calostemma,Clivia, Calocasia, Crinum, Crocosmia, Cyrtanthus, Dierama, Eucharis, Eucomis, Gladiolus, Gloriosa, Zephranthes, Hippeastrum, Hymenocallis, and many others.
  • Lawns.
  • Turf Varieties for Warm and Hot Areas.

4. Ornamental Gingers and Heliconias (and related plants)

  • Introduction
  • Zingerbales; Musaceae (bananas), Strelitziaceae (bird of paradise), Lowiaceae, Heliconiaceae (heliconias), Zingiberaceae (gingers), Costaceae (costus), Cannaceae (cannas), Marantaceae (prayer plants).
  • Gingers.
  • Heliconia.
  • Costus.
  • Canna.
  • Strelitzia.

5. Cordylines, Palms And Cycads

  • Types of Palms; self cleaning, cleaning, solitary or clumping, fan or pinnate, etc.
  • Palm Propagation.
  • Review of many cultivated Palm Genera.
  • Cordylines.

6. Climbers, Shrubs And Trees

  • Review of many cultivated Tree and Shrub Genera.
  • Cultural Requirements.
  • Review of many selected species characteristics.
  • Conifers; culture, genera, species.
  • Climbers; Allamanda, Antigonon, Aristolochia, Beaumontia, Bignonia, Bougainvillea, Campses, Ceropegia, Cissus, Clematis, Clerodendrum, Clitoria, Clytostoma, Combretum, Congea, Ficus, Hoya, Ipomea, Manettia, Mucuna, Pandorea, Philodendron, Scindapsis, Stephanotus, Thunbergia, Trachelospermum.

7. Orchids, Ferns, Aroids and Bromeliads

  • Orchid introduction.
  • Growing Orchids.
  • Epiphytes.
  • Orchid Genera.
  • Bromeliads.
  • Growing Ferns.
  • Types of Ferns; Fern Classification and families.
  • Fern Culture.
  • Aroids.

8. Tropical Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit Bearing Plants

  • Growing Methods; organic, no dig, permaculture, Container Growing, Hydroponics, etc.
  • Culture of Selected Vegetables in tropical and sub tropic conditions.
  • Bush tucker.
  • Tea and Coffee.
  • Tropical Fruit trees.

9. Growing Tropical Plants outside the Tropics

  • Growing tropicals indoors.
  • Growing in different climates and conditions.

10. Landscaping with Tropical Plants

  • Use of colour and texture.
  • Plant selection.
  • Planting a courtyard.
  • Preparing sketch plans

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  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

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      Why Study this Tropical Plants Course?

      Are you interested in tropical plants? Do you want to learn the different types of tropical plants and how to grow them? Then this course is for you! This online tropical plants course will teach you the cultural practices that plants need, the types of tropical plants and their taxonomy, the common problems one may face and how to prevent them, how to grow tropical plants outside the tropic, and more.

       

      Distance Learning Tropical Plants Course

      “Grow tropical plants! An instructive course”

      This course provides valuable instruction for growing plants in warm places or in protected places such as greenhouses and inside homes or offices.

      This is a course for amateurs and professionals; interior plantscapers and designers, plant collectors and breeders, nurserymen, botanists, landscapers, gardeners and horticulturists.

      Course Outline

      This course has 10 lessons:

      1. Introduction to Tropical Plants

      • What does the term “tropical” mean?
      • What tropicals grow where you live?
      • Plant names/classification (scientific and common).
      • Species, hybrids, varieties and cultivars.
      • Growing Tropical Plants in different climates: tropical, sub tropical, arid and temperate.
      • Climatic Variations; seasons, mountains, savannahs, rainforest, coastal.
      • Gardening for Warm Climates and Microclimates.
      • Good and Bad News about Tropical Gardening.
      • Heat Traps, Warming a Garden, Greenhouses.

      2. Plant Cultural Practices

      • Common Gardening Problems.
      • Understanding soils, naming a soil, texture, pH, fertility, nutrition, feeding.
      • Water and Plant Growth.
      • Water deficiency and excess symptoms.
      • Water Dynamics in a Soil.
      • Planting and Plant Establishment Methods.
      • Light Requirements.
      • Mulches.
      • Tree Guards.
      • Weeds.
      • Propagation, cutting, seed, propagating media.
      • Potting Mixes, Potting up, Caring for young plants.
      • Pruning etc.

      3. Tropical Annuals, Perennials, Bulbous Plants, Bamboos And Lawns

      • Bamboos, Grasses and Grass Like Plants.
      • Landscaping with Bamboos.
      • Review of Bamboo species.
      • Review of other herbaceous tropicals, including: Achmines, Agapanthus, Alocasia, Amorphophallus,Aristea, Babiana, Boophone, Brunsvigia, Caladium, Calaqthea, Calostemma,Clivia, Calocasia, Crinum, Crocosmia, Cyrtanthus, Dierama, Eucharis, Eucomis, Gladiolus, Gloriosa, Zephranthes, Hippeastrum, Hymenocallis, and many others.
      • Lawns.
      • Turf Varieties for Warm and Hot Areas.

      4. Ornamental Gingers and Heliconias (and related plants)

      • Introduction
      • Zingerbales; Musaceae (bananas), Strelitziaceae (bird of paradise), Lowiaceae, Heliconiaceae (heliconias), Zingiberaceae (gingers), Costaceae (costus), Cannaceae (cannas), Marantaceae (prayer plants).
      • Gingers.
      • Heliconia.
      • Costus.
      • Canna.
      • Strelitzia.

      5. Cordylines, Palms And Cycads

      • Types of Palms; self cleaning, cleaning, solitary or clumping, fan or pinnate, etc.
      • Palm Propagation.
      • Review of many cultivated Palm Genera.
      • Cordylines.

      6. Climbers, Shrubs And Trees

      • Review of many cultivated Tree and Shrub Genera.
      • Cultural Requirements.
      • Review of many selected species characteristics.
      • Conifers; culture, genera, species.
      • Climbers; Allamanda, Antigonon, Aristolochia, Beaumontia, Bignonia, Bougainvillea, Campses, Ceropegia, Cissus, Clematis, Clerodendrum, Clitoria, Clytostoma, Combretum, Congea, Ficus, Hoya, Ipomea, Manettia, Mucuna, Pandorea, Philodendron, Scindapsis, Stephanotus, Thunbergia, Trachelospermum.

      7. Orchids, Ferns, Aroids and Bromeliads

      • Orchid introduction.
      • Growing Orchids.
      • Epiphytes.
      • Orchid Genera.
      • Bromeliads.
      • Growing Ferns.
      • Types of Ferns; Fern Classification and families.
      • Fern Culture.
      • Aroids.

      8. Tropical Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit Bearing Plants

      • Growing Methods; organic, no dig, permaculture, Container Growing, Hydroponics, etc.
      • Culture of Selected Vegetables in tropical and sub tropic conditions.
      • Bush tucker.
      • Tea and Coffee.
      • Tropical Fruit trees.

      9. Growing Tropical Plants outside the Tropics

      • Growing tropicals indoors.
      • Growing in different climates and conditions.

      10. Landscaping with Tropical Plants

      • Use of colour and texture.
      • Plant selection.
      • Planting a courtyard.
      • Preparing sketch plans

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

      Clear

       

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