Certificate III in Horticulture

You’ll learn a wide range of creative, hands-on skills like planning plant displays, operating machinery, pruning and propagating plants.

You’ll choose from a range of electives to match your career dreams while you make the most of our unique location, surrounded by the Ballarat Botanical Gardens and backing onto a large wetland area.

The course content below provides all possible units related to the course. If the course has various streams, the units you are required to study will depend on your chosen stream.

PROVIDE INFORMATION ON PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE AHCPCM302

CONTROL WEEDS AHCPMG301

CONTROL PLANT PESTS, DISEASES AND DISORDERS AHCPMG302

IMPLEMENT SOIL IMPROVEMENTS FOR GARDEN AND TURF AREAS AHCSOL303

CONTRIBUTE TO WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY PROCESSES AHCWHS301

RECOGNISE TREES AHCARB208

IDENTIFY TREES AHCARB313

COST A PROJECT AHCBUS402

TRANSPORT AND STORE CHEMICALS AHCCHM304

PREPARE AND APPLY CHEMICALS TO CONTROL PEST, WEEDS AND DISEASES AHCCHM307

CONSTRUCT LANDSCAPE FEATURES USING CONCRETE AHCLSC302

ERECT TIMBER STRUCTURES AND FEATURES AHCLSC304

CONSTRUCT STONE STRUCTURES AND FEATURES AHCLSC305

IMPLEMENT A PAVING PROJECT AHCLSC306

OPERATE AND MAINTAIN CHAINSAWS AHCMOM213

OPERATE MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AHCMOM304

MAINTAIN NURSERY PLANTS AHCNSY301

IMPLEMENT A PROPAGATION PLAN AHCNSY306

IMPLEMENT A PLANT NUTRITION PROGRAM AHCPCM301

IDENTIFY PLANT SPECIMENS AHCPCM303

IMPLEMENT A PLANT ESTABLISHMENT PROGRAM AHCPGD301

PLAN AND MAINTAIN PLANT DISPLAYS AHCPGD302

PERFORM SPECIALIST AMENITY PRUNING AHCPGD303

APPLY ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE WORK PRACTICES AHCWRK309

Entry requirements (year 12)

Apprentices will need to be employed with a signed agreement. There are no formal entry requirements for non-apprenticeship students.