Learn to identify and grow Australian Native Plants

- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming.

<span style="\&quot;font-weight:" bold;\"="">Identify and Grow Australian Plants anywhere in the World.
Australia has one of the oldest and most diverse varieties of plants of an country. Australian natives come from tropical areas to cold temperate snow covered mountains, and from inland deserts to fertile wet rainforests. Develop your ability to identify, select, cultivate and plan a management program, for appropriate varieties of Australian native plants, in a wide variety of situations.  This course is relevant to any part of Australia, and equally to most other parts of the world.

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
2. Cultural Techniques
3. Eucalypts
4. Native Trees: Casuarina, Brachychiton, Tristania, Angophora, Callitris, Araucaria, Palms, etc.
5. Acacias
6. Melaleucas, Callistemons and Leptospermums
7. Grevilleas: concentrated study of 25 species
8. Ground Cover and Small Shrubs
9. Commercial Applications

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school\'s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

What The Course Covers

Here are some of the things you will do in this course:

• Classify most significant cultivated native plants, to the family level.
• Determine cultural practices to maintain healthy native plants.
• Explain the identification and culture of eucalypts in your locality.
• Explain the identification and culture of native trees.
• Explain the identification and culture of acacias in your locality.
• Explain the identification and culture of native shrubs, including species of Acacia, Melaleuca, Callistemon and Leptospermum
• Explain the identification and culture of different Proteaceous native plants, with particular emphasis on the genus Grevillea.
• Explain the identification and culture of a range of Australian Native ground covers and small shrubs.
• Determine commercially viable applications for different native plants.