Certificate II in Horticulture

Keen to develop your interest in plants and gardens into a career?
Throughout this course, you will develop skills in plant identification,
pest, disease, and weed control, propagation, and pruning.
You will also gain experience in operating and maintaining common
horticultural machinery and equipment. Give yourself a head start into
an apprenticeship or traineeship.

Duration

32 weeks

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this program.

What you learn

• plant and soil identification
• plant health management
• plant naming
• plant propagation methods
• basic planting and landscaping techniques
• tools and machinery used in horticulture.

What you get

Certificate II in Horticulture (partial completion)

Contribution to the VCE

The Certificate II in Agriculture is a non-scored program.  VCE students will receive a unit 1-4 over two years.  

VCE VM students will complete a minimum of 180 nominal hours a year to obtain their senior secondary certificate.