AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS I (Ht350)

Course Outlines

This course develops your abilities to identify, select, cultivate and plan a management program, for appropriate varieties of Australian native plants, in a wide variety of situations.

Duration: 100 hours (To do the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS, will take 100 hours. If you do extra work; you should expect to take longer!)

Fees: S2

Content

There are nine lessons in this course, as follows:

1. Introduction
   Review of the system of plant identification, general characteristics of Australian flora,
   information contacts (ie: nurseries, seed, clubs), review of major Australian plant families.
   
2. Cultural Techniques
   Planting, staking, mulching, watering, pest & disease, feeding, pruning, protection from wind, salt
   air, mounds and raised beds, containers.
   
3. Eucalypts
   
4. Native Trees: Casuarina, Brachychiton, Tristania, Angophora, Callitris, Araucaria, Palms, etc.
   
5. Acacias
   
6. Melaleucas, Callistemons and Leptospermums
   
7. Grevilleas: concentrated study of 25 species
   
8. Ground Cover and Small Shrubs
   
9. Commercial Applications

What The Course Covers

• A plant collection of plant specimen, photos or illustrations; together with the following information on each plant variety:
  
  • Common Name
  • Plant Family, Genus & Species names
    Variety (if applicable)
  • Height
  • Width
    
  • Soil requirements
  • Environmental requirements
    
  • Cultural procedures (eg. propagation and pruning)
    
  • Pest and disease susceptibility
  • Classify most significant cultivated native plants, to the family level.
• Determine cultural practices to maintain healthy native plants.
• Explain the identification and culture of eucalypts in your locality.
• Explain the identification and culture of native trees.
• Explain the identification and culture of acacias in your locality.
• Explain the identification and culture of native shrubs, including species of Acacia, Melaleuca,
• Callistemon and Leptospermum.
• Explain the identification and culture of different Proteaceous native plants, with particular
• emphasis on the genus Grevillea.
• Explain the identification and culture of a range of Australian Native ground covers and
• small shrubs.
• Determine commercially viable applications for different native plants.

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