Garden Centre
Our Horticulture Department can help you to...
- Get chainsaw, hedge cutter, strimmer and spraying tickets
- Gain nursery experience, including plant care and propagation
- Carry out landscaping and planting schemes
- Get Working at Heights & Emergency First Aid qualifications
- Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
- No prior experience is necessary as full training is given
Our Programme
Our Level 1 course lasts 3 months. Level 2 is a further 3-month placement. Please read the ‘Length of Stay’ section on our Referrals page for more information.
Level 1 is about learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.
Level 2 is about Increasing your work experience and skill level.
By the end of Level 2, trainees will usually have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:
- Chainsaw
- Maintenance
- Cross-cutting
- Felling up to 15″
- Hedgecutter and Strimmer tickets
- Forklift licence
- Spraying ticket
- Driving Theory
- Health & Safety
- Manual handing
- Working at Heights
- Emergency First Aid
Examples of dept skills you can learn:
- Cut a hedge safely and tidy up afterwards
- Use a chemical sprayer competently
- Learn about different watering and nutrition requirements for each plant
- Pot up plug plants, summer bedding & perennials
- Kit-out grow spaces, lay down capillary matting and weed barriers
- Understand and implement correct nutrition for different plants
- Create displays & develop planting schemes
For trainees that prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate, there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some of the following:
- Continue work experience through the remaining 2 seasons and gain experience of every season
- Practical driving lessons
- Further opportunity to pass some or all of the tests listed above
Horticulture Department Highlights
Ready to clear up a crime scene 😆 No, ready to spray chemicals safely as part of #estate maintenance and #horticulture where the young people we train get a host of industry standard qualifications and we help them into employment
Learning about chemical spraying in #estate maintenance and #horticulture to get the PA1 & PA6 spraying licences as part of the package of training we offer young people
Potting up in #horticulture before looking after and growing the plants ready for our shop cameliabotnar.com
Tree climbing practice for the chainsaw qualifications we offer in #estate maintenance and #horticulture as part of our residential training programmes for young people in tough situations
Building a tower while doing a Working at Heights course. One of the many certificates you can get at www.cameliabotnar.com if you do #carpentry #building #painting and decorating #estate maintenance #metalwork or #horticulture
Getting trained for the brushcutter and hedgecutter ticket as part of the training and work experience we give disadvantaged young people from tough situations at our Foundation in #estate maintenance and #horticulture. To find out more, visit www.cameliabotnar.com
Busy times potting bulbs in #horticulture where trainees get work experience and qualifications to fet them into good jobs and a bright future
