Horticulture
Study Horticulture at Melbourne Polytechnic and get your hands dirty working with plants
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Horticulture plays an increasingly vital role in conserving our environment and developing sustainable solutions for land management, landscaping, garden design, and resource and water scarcity.
You’ll develop specialist knowledge and skills in areas such as garden design and landscaping, revegetation, tree health assessment and management, retail nursery management, irrigation, soils and plant nutrition, turf management ,plant identification, plant propagation and health.
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Arboriculture students to the rescue in Yarra Bend
Yarra Bend Park – home to one of Australia’s biggest grey-headed flying fox colonies is not immune to dangerous hazards given its proximity to urban life. A hazard to this swelling population was recently removed thanks to Melbourne Polytechnic arboriculture students Tom and Eddie.
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Nathan Andrews wins Graduate of the Year at Sports Turf Awards.
Sports Turf Management student Nathan Andrews has taken out the prestigious Graduate of the Year award at the annual national awards given by the Sports Turf Association.
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Arborist Amanda Woodhams awarded Victorian Trainee of the Year
Arboriculture student Amanda Woodhams wins the Victorian Training Award for Trainee of the Year 2018
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Career Change - Teacher to Student to Business Owner
After a 30-year career as a teacher and manager, 54-year-old Linda Day yearned for something completely different—something out of the office and into the great outdoors.
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