Hamilton · Online course

Horticulture in Hamilton

Are you a passionate gardener? Do you love being outdoors and covered in dirt? Then this is the online course for you!

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What you'll learn

The course is the same online course wherever you study from. Its modules:

1. Subject 1 – Horticulture 1
2. Subject 2 – Horticulture and Plant Data

See the full Horticulture course outline

Studying horticulture from Hamilton

Hamilton Gardens gives a horticulture student a lot to study in one place. Its themed gardens are grouped into five collections. The Productive Collection covers a Kitchen Garden, Herb Garden, Sustainable Backyard Garden, Ancient Egyptian Garden and Te Parapara. The Cultivar Collection holds the Rogers Rose Garden, Hammond Camellia Garden, Victorian Flower Garden and Rhododendron Lawn.

Te Parapara Garden demonstrates traditional Māori skills for growing kūmara and other tropical crops in a cooler climate. It is on a site linked to Ngāti Wairere food-harvesting rituals. In Temple View, Taitua Arboretum holds 20 hectares of mature trees planted by John and Bunny Mortimer from 1973 and is now managed by Hamilton City Council, which makes it useful for studying tree selection and long-term planting.

Horticulture in Hamilton: questions

Which gardens in Hamilton are useful for horticulture study?

Hamilton Gardens has five collections. The Productive Collection includes the Kitchen Garden, Herb Garden, Sustainable Backyard Garden and Te Parapara Garden, and the Cultivar Collection includes rose, camellia and rhododendron plantings. Taitua Arboretum in Temple View adds 20 hectares of mature trees.

What is Te Parapara Garden?

Te Parapara is a traditional Māori productive garden at Hamilton Gardens. It demonstrates the skills needed to grow kūmara and other tropical crops in a colder climate, on a site once home to the Ngāti Wairere chief Haanui.

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