Training and courses

A career in the horticultural industry can be very rewarding, working outdoors and in a subject which for many is as much a hobby as a "job".

There is a wide range of course now for all standards of gardeners from

leisure courses to Masters in Landscape Architecture.

Provider of the Royal Horticultural Society distance learning gardening course as well as a less rigourous amateur gardening course and a garden design course.

Based at the historic Chelsea Physic Garden, the School offers courses for all gardeners, from the green-fingered beginner to the professional garden designer. Diplomas, short courses and distance learning available.

Garden design courses at the Inchbald School of Design, London.

Institute for Horticulture and Rural Studies offers a range of relevant courses.

Horticultural Correspondence College accredited by the Open & Distance Learning Quality Council.

Specialist training provider of tree surgery and forestry courses.

Landscape design courses at the KLC School of Design, London.

The Welsh College of Horticulture is Wales learning centre for land based industries.