Selecting Trees and Shrubs for Small Spaces

Expand your plant knowledge - specifically trees and shrubs that are suitable for growing in smaller gardens.

Course Code: SGH31

Fee Code: SG

Duration (approx) Duration (approx) 10 hours

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Within Australia
AUD $250.00inc GST

Outside Australia
AUD $227.27

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All prices in Australian Dollars.

This is a course developed with Landscape designers, architects and contractors in mind.

Plants can have such a big impact on the built environment, but that impact can be either positive or negative. Learn to understand the circumstances of the site, and the criteria for making a good choice; then develop the palette of plant species you are choosing from. Make better choices and have better impacts in you attempts to green up urban areas, private, public & commercial sites.

Lesson Structure

There are 4 lessons in this course:

CHOOSING A PLANT
- Video - Preview of lesson
- What are small gardens?
- Choosing the right trees or shrubs
- Considerations
- Problems in confined spaces
- Climate changes how plants grow
- Consider the landscape context
- Fitting big plants into small places
- Root control
- Keeping plants small
- Weeping trees
- Standards
- Espaliers
- Take-away points from this lesson
- Review what you have been learning
SHRUBS FOR SMALL GARDENS
- Diversity or group planting?
- Choosing shrubs for small gardens
- Plants you should know
- Take-away points from this lesson
- Review what you have been learning
TREES FOR SMALL GARDENS
- Considerations
- Plant you should know
- Take-away points from this lesson
- Review what you have been learning
CREATING SMALL GARDENS
- Video - Preview of lesson
- Know the locality
- Big effects in small spaces
- Plant selection for small gardens
- Considerations when choosing plants to use in a landscape design
- Consider the site
- Trees with less damaging root systems
- Trees with damaging root systems
- Small or dwarf plants
- Dwarf deciduous feature trees
- Small (evergreen) feature trees
- Dwarf magnolias
- Creating shade
- Other things to consider
- Shade density
- Trees with narrow canopies
- Shade tolerant shrubs
- Types of small gardens
- Courtyard gardens
- Drainage
- Water
- Plants for courtyards
- Balcony gardens
- Container gardens

Learning Strategies:

Study Guide with course notes/reading/illustration
Interactive self assessment tests in every lesson
One assignment submitted and marked
Practical components -tasks away from the computer
Videos
Help desk to consult expert tutors

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