Course Overview:
The City & Guilds Level 2 Technical Certificate in Horticulture offers learners a strong foundation in Landscaping, Grounds maintenance, and the wider Horticulture industry. This qualification provides all the core practical and technical skills needed to progress into further study or gain employment in the sector.
Learners will gain experience across a wide range of industry skills and knowledge
The horticulture sector is made up of many diverse industries delivering the science, art, technology, and business of ‘growing plants’. The careers within horticulture are varied and range from crop production (fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees & shrubs, and glasshouse crops), to landscaping, garden design, and sports turf.
Horticulture has a massive part to play in the future of our planet and the living things on it. From the food we eat, the sports we play, caring for the conservation of our environment, and the creation of beautiful spaces for our own humanity and health & well-being.
The potential is vast, and if you’re ambitious, there is real scope to progress in this industry, have a fantastic, worthwhile, enjoyable career, and make a real difference to the future of our planet.
What will you be doing on the course?
This course is packed with practical, hands-on learning. You won’t just read about landscaping; you’ll build it. You will practice a wide range of skills on the course, including:
Hard Landscaping: Learn to lay paving, set out groundworks, and build brick/block features.
Green Spaces: Master turf maintenance, planting design, and soil improvement.
Plant skills: Get into plant identification and propagation (growing new plants from scratch).
Machinery: Get confident operating industry-standard tools and equipment.
Soil cultivation and improvement.
Real Work Experience: Put your skills to the test with 150 hours of real industry placement, building your CV before you even graduate.
Work experience forms part of the course. Students will need to undertake a minimum of 150 hours of work experience in the industry sector.
Assessment is through practical synoptic assessment, an exam, and a landscape practical assignment.
This qualification is a one-year full-time programme in which learners study nine modules. These are assessed through a combination of written exams, coursework assignments, and a synoptic assessment, which brings together both practical and theoretical elements completed under controlled assessment conditions.
