Online Course: Landscaping 101 - Certificate and CEUs
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Basic Course: $25.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $50.00
The landscape of a home is as important in expressing the "personality" of its owners as the home itself. More importantly, a good landscape will provide recreation, privacy, and pleasure to the owners. This starter course is ideal for anyone -- whether you just want to improve one corner of the yard, or you want to add some flowerbeds or a tree or shrub here and there, or you're starting from scratch with a bare lot and need to learn how to start, plan, and finish an entire landscape.
 
Course topics include: 
  • Lesson 1: Introduction and the Importance of Dirt
  • Lesson 2: Assessing Your Landscaping Needs
  • Lesson 3: Mistakes and Planning
  • Lesson 4: Starting and a Three Year Plan
  • Lesson 5: Planning Specifics
  • Lesson 6: Estimation the Costs
  • Lesson 7: Design for Outdoor Living
  • Lesson 8: Outdoor Rooms
  • Lesson 9: How to Select the Right Plants and Things
  • Lesson 10: Soil and Other Preparations

    What could be more rewarding than learning how to design your home's landscape, transforming your plans into reality, and enjoying the results for years to come?
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

Course Description

Garden Path
 
The enjoyment of a beautiful landscape is one of the great pleasures of home ownership. However, actually realizing your landscaping visions can be stressful Frequently you have a bare dirt and poor grass yard or an all grass yard and you just don't know where to start. This online course can help.  Landscaping 101 will not only teach you the basics of the science of landscaping, it will show you how to apply your own creativity to transform your yard into a work of art.
 

In this course you will:

  • Learn the basics of landscaping including harmony, balance, color, natural transitions, proportion and line.
  • Learn how to assess your present landscape needs.
  • Learn how to assess the purpose of your landscape.
  • Learn how to gather ideas and whether to use professional help or not.
  • Learn how to plan your landscape, and schedule the work.
  • Learn how to avoid common landscaping mistakes.
  • Learn how to make the most of what you have.

 
This starter course is ideal for anyone -- whether you just want to improve one corner of the yard, or you want to add some flowerbeds or a tree or shrub here and there, or you're starting from scratch with a bare lot and need to learn how to start, plan, and finish an entire landscape.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Lesson 1: Introduction and the Importance of Dirt - A good landscape will provide recreation, privacy, and pleasure to the owners. This lesson will discuss the tools and planning needed to create your landscape.
  2. Lesson 2: Assessing Your Landscaping Needs - The process of assessing your landscaping needs and finding the best solutions is essential to creating an effective landscape.
  3. Lesson 3: Mistakes and Planning - This lesson addresses how to avoid problems and mistakes while planning your landscape.
  4. Lesson 4: Starting and a Three Year Plan - In this lesson, we will discuss how to get started and a basic three year plan for developing your landscape.
  5. Lesson 5: Planning Specifics - This lesson shows you how to draw up a base plan and landscape plan.
  6. Lesson 6: Estimation the Costs - In this lesson, you will receive a general idea about how much plants, decorative designs, and soil will cost.
  7. Lesson 7: Design for Outdoor Living - This lesson discusses some ways to dress and light up your outdoor living space.
  8. Lesson 8: Outdoor Rooms - This lesson discusses porches and hideaways.
  9. Lesson 9: How to Select the Right Plants and Things - This lesson will discuss how to choose the right garden ornaments.
  10. Lesson 10: Soil and Other Preparations - This lesson explains the properties of soil including pH balance and acidity levels.
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Additional Information

Course Title : Landscaping 101
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 7550027
Course Type : How To
Course URL : http://landscaping.onlineclasses.com
Course Review :
Instructor : Stephanie Walker
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $25.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $50.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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