Course Description
Expert gardener and horticulturalist Dr Noel Kingsbury teaches you how to propagate plants - from collecting seeds to taking a cutting or division and grafting.
What is plant propagation?
Propagation is about making more plants. Propagation is crucial to the nursery industry, and therefore to the whole garden and landscape business.
There are many different ways to propagate plants including taking a cutting, collecting and growing from seeds, division and grafting. Different methods are used for different species – which method you use depends very much on the form of the plant, its lifecycle and its own natural ways of increasing itself.
With some plants, several different propagation methods might work, but one may be more popular because it is easier to do on a large scale, gives quicker results, may be cheaper or give different outcomes, such as plant size or vigour.
Noel will teach you how to choose the most successful propagation method for different plant types, and practical instructions on each propagation technique.
You'll learn:
- how to propagate all types of plants
- collecting and storing plant seeds
- germinating seeds
- hybridisation
- vegetative propagation including taking cuttings and growing roots from cuttings
- perennial propagation
- division and grafting techniques
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Dr Noel Kingsbury
- lifetime access to the videos and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- practical propagation projects (with tutor feedback available)
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas
Time to complete the plant propagation course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 11 hours 30 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 1 hour 30 minutes in total
- Your plant propagation assignments: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
You'll need:
You don't need any special equipment, but you will be completing propagation assignments including researching propagation techniques and how to propagate different types of plants in your garden.
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Noel on your propagation assignments.
If you know someone who'd love this course then give it as a gift - just tick "This is a gift" at the checkout.
Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.
CPD Accreditation
Course activity has been accredited by the CPD Standards Office (CPDSO). The course equates to 11 hours, 30 minutes of CPD learning.
Course outline
The outlines of propagation: seeds, collecting and storing
Sowing seeds and hybridisation
Vegetative propagation, cuttings and layering
Division and grafting
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Ane
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RecommendedDevelop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition from Dr Noel Kingsbury
- Start course whenever you like
- 4 weeks tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- 4 assignments marked by Dr Noel Kingsbury
- Certificate of completion and CPD hours
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$265The Peer option
Discover the benefits of group learning in an online interactive classroom of no more than 20 people. Get the most from shared knowledge and community study
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 4 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$75
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Meet Dr Noel Kingsbury
Kingsbury's garden writing is among the best you will find in the English language.
Noel Kingsbury is an international garden designer and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design in gardens and designed landscapes (e.g. the 1996 publication of 'The New Perennial Garden', pub. Frances Lincoln, London), and his 25 year collaboration with Dutch garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf on books on planting design. He writes sometimes for The Daily Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated magazine and The Garden - the membership magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. He has worked with Prof. Nigel Dunnett, of the University of Sheffield on the first book in English on green roof and related 'green architecture' technologies. In collaboration with Tim Richardson Kingsbury has edited Vista, the Culture and Politics of Gardens and co-chairs events at the Garden Museum in London under the title 'Vista'. He has worked with several notable garden photographers, such as Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones.
Kingsbury earned a doctorate from the University of Sheffield in 2009, for a thesis on the Long term performance of ornamental herbaceous vegetation. He continues to research in this area.
Kingsbury has also written a history of plant breeding, Hybrid, The History and Science of Plant Breeding (2009).