Sneak Peek
Indoor Plants Short Course
This 20-hour course will enlighten and educate you in Indoor Plantscaping.
Learn all that you need to grow healthy and beautiful indoor plants. Indoor plants are not only ascetically pleasing, they can also improve air quality and improve your emotional well being.
This course will help you with interior design using plants, plant care, maintenance and selecting the right indoor plant for your climate and available sunlight.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
This short course covers seven lessons.
CONTENTS
Lesson 1 Introduction
Psychological and physical benefits of plants
Where indoor plants are used
Considerations when introducing indoor plants
Groups of indoor plants
Lesson 2 Ways of growing plants inside
Containers and growing systems for indoor plants
Planters, pots or tubs
Problems with containers
Hanging baskets, hanging pots, wall baskets and planter boxes
Atriums and terrariums
Green walls
Tower gardens
Systems used for indoor plant installations
Water and watering
Watering systems
Fertigation
Potting media
Lesson 3 Planning and installation
Formulating a design approach
Design
Placing container plants
How to use colour with indoor plants
Principles of design
Design elements
Evaluating a building
Choosing the system
Environmental controls/improvements
Choosing the plants and conditioning them
Conditioning plants for indoors
Providing drainage
Installation techniques
Installing baskets and hanging pots
Installing window boxes
Atriums
Terrariums
Placing container plants
How to use colour with indoor plants
Mixing colours
Walls
Mirrors
Lesson 4 The general maintenance of indoor plants
General care
Maintenance of hanging baskets
Maintaining a terrarium
General maintenance tasks for vertical gardens
Water movement from soils to roots
Understanding soil and potting mix
Lesson 5 Pest and disease management
Identifying problems
Maintaining plant health
Symptoms and diagnosis
Lesson 6 Hardy indoor plants
Plants species that grow in low - moderate light
Plants species that grow in air conditioning
Plants species that grow in temperature extremes
Growing culinary herbs indoors in winter
Lesson 7 Air quality management and indoor plants
What is in the air?
Humidity
Pollutants
Ventilation
Plants
Plant species that grow in poor air and pollution
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end
of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and
each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need
internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment
which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60%
pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of
completion with your name on it.