Training – Horticulture and garden center operations + Landscaping operations

TRAINING
DESCRIPTION

This program combines both Horticulture and garden center operations DVS and Landscaping operations DVS. The Horticulture and Garden Centre Operations program prepares students to practise the trade or occupation of plant-care worker. Plant-care workers are in a variety of settings: for public or private organizations that manage parks, green spaces, gardens and golf courses; for horticultural consulting firms; in specialized garden centres; in the horticultural department of department stores. They maintain parks and green spaces by producing, maintaining and propagating plants as well as installing flower beds, mass plantings, mosaics, containers and other floral displays. In horticulture, their work consists in preparing soils; seeding, planting and maintaining plants; and preparing and applying plant protection products. In the retail industry, plant-care workers are often referred to as sales consultants. The Landscaping Operations program prepares students to start a new career in the landscaping field. Landscapers work on gardens and maintain and beautify residential and commercial grounds. This program will prepare you to build wooden and stone structures, and install concrete features such as walkways and patios. A nature lover’s dream, training in Landscaping Operations will prepare you for a career in the great outdoors!

Duration : 1 965 Hours

academic
prerequisites

SCHOLARITY LEVEL : Quebec's Secondary 4th (France's Second) or equivalent
LANGUAGE LEVEL :
The level of language required varies according to the training center chosen.

* The validation of your eligibility will be confirmed by our admissions department once your application has been completed.

JOB
PROSPECTS

Landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists 

Landscaping and grounds maintenance labourers 

Nursery and greenhouse workers 

Retail salespersons 

Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services

Visit Emploi-Québec to learn more about these opportunities.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Acquire skills in pruning, fertilization, planting, photoprotection and plant production
Perform a multitude of practical work focused on the job
Discover the main plants available on the Quebec market, namely trees and shrubs; hardwoods and evergreens, annuals and perennials, native plants, edible aquatic plants, and more
Design landscaping plans
Ensure the satisfaction of visitors in garden centers.
Efficiently organise sales areas for horticultural and gardening products
Acquire skills related to the landscaping
Develop versatility and create layouts
Design development plans
Carry out landscaping and grounds maintenance
Build wooden structures (benches, arbours, pergolas)
Build stone structures (stone walls, rock gardens)
Install concrete features such as walkways and patios
Work with inert and living materials such as flowers, trees and shrubs
Interpret plans, specifications and technical documentation
Take measurements and make estimates

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TRAINING CONTENT

Competency statement

HOURS

Depending on the center chosen, some of the competency could be credited.

HORTICULTURE AND GARDEN OPERATIONS DVS

Determine their suitability for the trade and the training process  

Use outdoor pesticides 

Analyze plants considering the principles of botany

Prune woody plants

To amend and fertilize soils

Plant and transplant plants

Solve problems related to the phytosanitary status of plants

Perform plant production work

Maintain edible plants

Perform summer maintenance of a garden

Perform autumn maintenance of a garden

Perform spring maintenance of a garden

Interpret plans and quotes

Use pesticides in sheltered crops

Find information on horticulture

Maintain houseplants and flowering pots

Communicate in the workplace

Design the layout of a garden

105

Maintain horticultural machinery, equipment and tools

Implant and maintain lawns

Develop sales spaces and warehousing spaces

Sell horticultural products and equipment

Use job search methods 

Enter the work force 

Prevent damage to health, safety and physical integrity on construction sites

LANDSCAPING OPERATIONS DVS

Determine their suitability for the trade and the training process

Use pesticides outdoors

Maintain horticultural tools, equipment and machinery and operate machinery

Take measurements and make estimates

Interpret plans, specifications and technical documentation

Communicate in the workplace

Differentiate plants

Landscape a site

Maintain grounds

105

Install irrigation and lighting systems

Build concrete structures

Build mortarless structures using stone and concrete products

120

Build mortared stone structures

Build wooden structures

105

Use job search techniques

Build and maintain a water and a rock garden

Produce a sketch for a residential landscape design

Enter the workforce

Ensure health, safety and physical well-being on construction sites