New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture Services (Landscape Design strand) Level 4

Improve your hobby or enhance your career in landscaping with the New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture (Landscape Design) Level 4. Learn how to design, analyse sites and use plants to transform different landscapes.

You will learn:

• Communication and leadership
• Site analysis and surveying
• Plant identification for landscape design
• Landscape design planting plans
• Design principles for landscape design
• Graphics for landscape design

This course will teach you the skills and knowledge that you need to succeed in the horticulture and landscape design sector or upskill your talents for your own residential property.

*As of 01 January 2022, SIT2LRN has updated the paper codes to be in line with other Southern Institute of Technology’s qualifications. The paper name and content are the same.

Please ensure that you are selecting the correct papers when you enrol online as the application will now show the new paper codes.

Please see the table below for the old and new codes:

Students should enrol and/or complete the compulsory papers in the course before proceeding onto the elective papers.

Compulsory

CLD400 Communication and leadership (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to supervise and provide instructions to team members, contractors, clients, or members of the public in the context of landscape design.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Describe effective communication principles, aims and tools.
2. Identify barriers to effective communication and strategies to overcome these.
3. Provide practical skills instruction to individuals or a group.

CLD401 Site analysis and survey (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills to analyse a site profile for a specific landscape project, including cultural and historical factors, in order to analyse the potentials and limitations for a landscape design.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Collate site survey information for a specified landscape site.
2. Identify historical factors influencing a design proposal for a specified landscape site.
3. Identify cultural factors influencing a design proposal for a specified landscape site.
4. Analyse the design potentials and limitations for a specified landscape site in terms of site survey, historical, and cultural factors.

CLD402 Plant identification for landscape design (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills to identify and select plants appropriate for a specified landscape design.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Describe the characteristics of trees, shrubs, and climbers.
2. Select plants for specific uses, conditions and sites.
3. Explain the soil and climatic conditions and tolerances for selected plants.

CLD403 Landscape design planting plans (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills to use draughting equipment, materials and procedures to prepare working drawings for landscape plantings.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Select draughting equipment and materials suitable for the development of working drawings.
2. Develop working drawings for a landscape project.

CLD404 Design principles for landscape design (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge of common drawing media and principles in order to complete freehand drawings for landscape design.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Explore and use common drawing media and drawing elements.
2. Explain colour rendering media and techniques.
3. Apply the principles of axonometric and perspective drawing.

CLD405 Graphics for landscape design (10 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge of landscape design graphics commonly used to show various components of a landscape plan.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

1. Describe and accurately employ graphics to depict different shrubs and trees.
2. Describe and accurately employ graphics to depict different ground covers and accent plants.
3. Describe and accurately employ graphics to depict hard landscaping features.

Papers will need to be taken in order:  (CLD400, CLD401, CLD402, CLD403, CLD404 and CLD405).