Landscape school training courses in Birmingham, AL (public, in-house or online)

The Landscape Technology Certificate can be earned in one of three major areas—the Landscape Design Track, the Landscape Technician Track or the Sports Turf Technician Track. Each of these tracks are designed to provide the landscape industry with properly trained individuals who are certified by the State of Alabama to work in the field of their choice. A total of 26 semester hours are required to earn a Certificate. All credit work earned in the Certificate program applied to the Associate in ...

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Landscape Design school covers the following:
Lettering and Drawing Tools
Graphic Techniques
Site Analysis and the Design Process
The Outdoor Room
Plant Selection and Flowers
Hardscapes
Using Computers and Pricing a Design
Landscape Calculations
Installing Plants and Grass
Landscape Irrigation

The Landscape Design Courses are comprised of 18 comprehensive lessons. They are easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson in the Landscape Design Classes begins with a subject matter preview and objectives, an introductory note from your instructor and a vocabulary builder of new words and terms.

Next comes the reading assignment. Practice exercises help you check and review what you’ve learned. At the end of the lesson is an open-book exam, which...

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The Landscape and Garden Center Technician program provides quality education in the areas of landscape design and construction, garden center operation and ornamental plant maintenance. The focus is on preparing graduates for challenging careers in the expanding field of landscaping and garden centers. Students will design and construct landscapes using a variety of different techniques and construction materials. Students will also develop contemporary business concepts as they apply to landsc...

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This 3-hour online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Greenâ€?planning, design and construction. You’ll get:

Citywide landscape planning
Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecology
Landscapes capable of high rates of stormwater absorption, infiltration, and treatment
Tree planting for quantity, density and diversity
Turfgrass reduction
Plant selection
De...

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