Start a Career in Landscaping

If you enjoy planning, planting, and maintaining your own garden, you might want to turn your hobby into a career. As a student of landscaping, you’ll learn about horticulture, the science of growing plants. Horticulture covers such topics as plant growth, nutrition, and identification as well as pruning, fertilization, and pest management.

There’s more to this program than horticulture, though. You’ll also learn basic design and drafting, cost estimation, equipment operation and maintenance, personnel supervision, and business practices. These skills prepare you for working for others or running your own ’Green Industry’ business. ‘Green Industries’ include: nurseries, greenhouses, sod growers, plant care professionals, retail garden centers, arborists, turf care and landscape designers.

The Horticulture Program at the Delta Montrose Technical College in Delta, Colorado is an exciting, hands-on learning environment to prepare students for positions in Green Industry.  You will take 58-60 credits of horticulture during the eight month program to give you a well rounded foundation for your career in Green Industry.