Online Green Walls and Roofs Course

Vertical and Roof Gardens are increasingly popular, particularly in urban, industrial and commercial areas, where space is often at a premium, and air pollution can be a problem.

Covering walls and roofs with vegetation is not only aesthetically pleasing; but can also help a great deal with maintaining, or ven improving, air quality.

This course provides a wonderful opportunity to explore possibilities that you might not have previously considered; and in doing so, lay a foundation for developing gardens in places you had not considered previously.

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Scope & Nature of Roof and Vertical Gardens
2. Construction Functional and Appropriate Vertical and Roof Gardens
3. Climbing Plants and Structures for climbing
4. Plants Suited to Roof and Vertical Gardens
5. Adaptations for Other Plants in Roof and Vertical Gardens
6. Container Growing
7. Maintenance –watering, pest control
8. Applications/Landscaping –Roof Gardens
9. Applications/Landscaping –Vertical gardens

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Discuss the nature and scope of vertical gardens and roof gardens in horticulture today.
• Explain engineering considerations involved with the building of vertical and roof gardens, both on small and large scale projects.
• Select appropriate materials and plan the way in which the non living components of the garden is created, in order to achieve an appropriate and sustainable installation.
• Select appropriate climbing plants for creating vertical or roof gardens, and determine appropriate strategies to cultivate those plants, in a variety if different situations.
• Select appropriate plants for use in vertical or roof gardens, which are tolerant of the adverse growing conditions, having natural adaptations to growing under conditions that are encountered in these gardens.
• Select and plan the cultivation of plants that lack natural adaptations to growing on roofs or vertical gardens; but which are none the less required to grow in these adverse conditions
• Explain a range of container growing techniques, in a range of different roof and vertical gardens, that may be used with a selection of different types of plants.
• Identify and evaluate problems with vertical and roof gardens, and compare options for solving those problems
• Plan the development of roof gardens for both small and large scale applications.
• Plan the development of vertical gardens for both small and large scale applications.

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