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City & Guilds Level 1 Diploma in Practical Horticulture Skills

Myerscough College can offer you the opportunity to train at the best land-based College in the North West, with excellent facilities for Ho…

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Location
Croxteth Park (Liverpool) or Myerscough College (Preston) or Walton Hall
Course length
One year
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City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Practical Horticulture Skills

Why Myerscough: Myerscough College is set in a beautiful rural area; we have fantastic grounds and award winning gardens on which you can …

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Location
Myerscough College (Preston) or Croxteth Park (Liverpool) or Walton Hall
Course length
One Year
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RHS Level 2 Certificate in Practical Horticulture

This qualification is intended for those wishing to work in professional horticulture in a variety of roles. It is designed to provide a ran…

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Location
Myerscough College (Preston) or Croxteth Park (Liverpool) or Walton Hall
Course length
30 weeks
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Level 2 Principles of Horticulture

A fun way to learn about the basics of horticulture in this RHS approved course. You will learn in a suitable environment, with excellent ga…

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Myerscough College (Preston) or Croxteth Park (Liverpool) or Walton Hall
Course length
30 weeks
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City & Guilds Level 3 Advanced Technical Certificate in Horticulture, Landscape or Sportsturf (360)

Myerscough College can offer you the opportunity to train at level 3 (A-Level equivalent) at the best land-based College in the North West, …

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Myerscough College (Preston) or Walton Hall
Course length
1 year
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Horticultures Routes to Employment

The Horticulture Routes to Employment is designed to meet the needs of those who already hold a horticultural qualification or have experien…

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Location
Croxteth Park (Liverpool)
Course length
1 Year
Myerscough College Horticulture
Myerscough College Horticulture

Horticulture

Horticulture is a rapidly growing area of the economy thanks to a strong public interest in gardening, plants, sustainability and food security. According to the Royal Horticultural Society, the horticulture industry is the largest employer in the UK, supplying 18 million gardeners.

The number of garden centres continues to increase and the public demand for attractive horticultural landscapes remains strong. This means that plant growers, suppliers and managers are constantly looking for ways to improve their businesses.

Our Gold Medal winning garden at Southport Flower Show
Our Gold Medal winning garden at Southport Flower Show

Show Garden Success

Work experience doesn’t get much better than here at Myerscough. Our learners have helped build award-winning gardens across the country - from a Gold-Medal entry at Chelsea Flower Show to Gold and Silver Medals at Southport Flower Show! They’ve also been involved with garden builds for the BBC DIY SOS project in Blackpool and show gardens at the RHS Tatton Flower Show and Chorley Flower Show.

PlantWorld
PlantWorld

PlantWorld

Myerscough’s award-winning gardens are laid out across much of the western edge of the Myerscough campus. As part of our garden kingdom, horticulture students are spoilt for choice in our Plant World display glasshouses! There are bananas growing in the Tropical Zone, coffee plants and pineapples in the Edible Zone, a Mediterranean atmosphere in the Temperate Zone as well as beautiful specimen plants in the Flowering and Foliage Zones.

Myerscough College - Horticulture Glasshouses
Myerscough College - Horticulture Glasshouses

Superb Facilities

Our horticulture students have access to some of the best facilities available. There are brand new commercial glasshouses, an extensive plant collection, fully-equipped landscape and construction workshops, a new Sportsturf education facility, a CAD suite and drawing studio and dedicated garden plots for project work.

Scholarship Programme

Every year there’s the chance for students to apply for funding to undertake overseas trips as part of their studies thanks to travel scholarships. The annual fund, from the Lancaster and Morecambe Agriculture & Horticulture Society Scholarship programme, pays significant bursaries to encourage young horticulturalists to study or explore business ideas abroad. This year, Bronwyn Jones, 19, went to Singapore to be involved as a volunteer on the ‘Gardens by the Bay’ project looking at increasing public accessibility to gardens and using innovation and technology in creating a city in the garden.

Latest news, Horticulture

Myerscough College Fellow - Christine Walkden
Myerscough College Fellow - Christine Walkden

Christine Walkden: Honorary Fellow

"My passion for gardening was nurtured at Myerscough College and I've been getting my hands dirty ever since." Celebrity plantswoman and horticulturalist Christine was awarded an honorary fellowship and regularly works with the College and our Horticultural department.

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