Australia: ACS provides gardening, landscaping and horticulture courses

THE AUSTRALIAN Correspondence School (ACS) says it offers over 150 gardening courses, from short amateur courses to long professional qualification courses.

According to ACS, it has been working in horticulture, gardening and landscaping for the past three decades. Staffs include a dozen qualified and skilled horticultural experts, from across Australia, the UK and New Zealand.

The courses can cover around 100 hours for topics such as growing fruit or vegetables at home and landscaping home gardens.

ACS says the landscaping home garden course is designed to teach you how to design or renovate a home garden and then, how to maintain it. The subjects covered are relevant to both small and large landscapes, suitable for developing a new home garden, or improving an existing one.

The principal of ACS, John Mason is said to have been editor of for garden magazines and is an author of over 40 gardening books.

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