Online Tropical Plants Course

Learn where and how to grow tropical plants through this versatile and comprehensive course. 

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

A great course for the beginner or the professional.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Tropical Plants - Plant names/classification (scientific & common), climatic conditions, plants suited to the students locality.
2. Plant Cultural Practices Understanding soils, naming a soil, propagation, watering, feeding, pruning etc.
3. Tropical Annuals, Perennials, Bulbous Plants, Bamboos & Lawns
4. Ornamental Gingers and Heliconias (and related plants including Alpinia, Hedychium, Zingiber, Musa & Costus
5. Cordylines, Palms & Cycads
6. Climbers, Shrubs and Trees
7. Orchids, Ferns, Aroids and Bromeliads
8. Tropical Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit Bearing Plants including Bush tucker, Selected Vegetables, Tea & Coffee, Tropical Fruit trees
9. Growing Tropical Plants outside the Tropics Growing tropicals indoors, in different climates and conditions.
10. Landscaping with Tropical Plants - Use of colour & texture, plant selection, planting a courtyard, preparing sketch plans.

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

Aims

• Explain the nature and scope of tropical plants
• Discuss cultural characteristics that are often peculiar to tropical plants
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of a range of soft wooded tropical plants including annuals, perennials and bulbs.
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of Heliconias and Gingers..
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of Palms and Palm like tropicals.
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of climber, tree and shrub tropical plants.
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of Orchids, Ferns and Bromeliads.
• Describe the taxonomy and culture of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruits in tropical conditions.

For more information on this course, please request your free course information pack.