Landscape school training courses in Brooklyn Park, MN (public, in-house or online)

This program of study leading to a diploma gives the student a basic landscape/horticulture education the first year. The second year focuses on landscape design and landscape construction. The design area will include courses in drafting and graphics, residential design, estimating, presentation techniques and computer drafting. The construction area includes courses in blueprint reading, estimating, surveying, landscape installation and specialized hardscape construction.
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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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