Horticulture
Offering a hands-on, nature-focused learning experience for those passionate about plants, sustainability, and working outdoors, our Horticulture courses have a strong emphasis on practical skills.
With flexible study options from entry level to HNC, you’ll learn in a real working environment maintaining and developing gardens.
As you build practical skills in plant care, garden design and landscape maintenance, you’ll also explore the science behind how plants grow, develop and respond to their environment, growing in confidence, shaping your own ideas and understanding how your work can transform outdoor spaces people use and enjoy.
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Explore our courses
Entry Level
- Horticulture (Practical): College Certificate (SCQF Level 5)
- NQ Environmental Science and Sustainability (SCQF Level 6)
Undergraduate
Specialist Courses
We also offer a range of Apprenticeships and SVQs which combine work with study, so you can earn while you learn.
What’s Next?
You can go onto further study or careers including:
- Charity and voluntary horticultural specialists
- Countryside, parks and open spaces
- Garden centres and nurseries
- Greenkeeping and turf care
- Grounds maintenance
- Growing and landscaping
- Manufacturing
- Training and education
What our students say
Anna Walder – HNC Horticulture
I've learned a lot about propagation and maintaining mature garden. I had access to all the machinery, greenhouses, polytunnel and endless knowledge of the tutor.
I like the hybrid system, where | have lectures online, but I also have practical. Meeting the tutor and other students face to face makes a difference - gives more support and confidence.
Anna Pearson – HNC Horticulture
The HNC has really opened my eyes to the range and depth of the gardening industry, I've always enjoyed working outdoors with plants, but the HNC has given me the knowledge to really understand how things work
Gallia Cochrane – HNC Horticulture graduate and Lecturer
The mix of delivery styles allows me to be taught by experts across Scotland, which ensures the best knowledge to be passed on.
I was really happy to see we still had in-person teaching which gives practical experience, something employers really want to see. The class gathering weekly allows us to enjoy the social aspects of higher education as well.