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Study Australian Indigenous Plants
- Learn to identify, propagate and grow dozens of different genera
- Work with Natives in a nursery, flower farm, landscape business or garden
- Start your own business or enhance your career opportunities working for someone else
- Indulge a passion for natives, breed new varieties, understand wonders of the Australian bush which you may have previously not noticed
Content
There are nine lessons in this course, as follows:
1. Introduction
- Scope and Nature of Native Plants
- Taxonomy: Botanical and Horticultural Nomenclature
- Binomial System
- Levels of Division
- Plant Families
- Species, Hybrids, Varieties and Cultivars
- Botanical Keys and their Use
- Origins of Australian Plants
- Continental Drift
- Resources for More Information
- Sources for Seed Information
2. Cultural Techniques
- Cultivation
- Things that can Go Wrong: Pests, Diseases, Environmental Problems, Nutrition
- Soils
- Improving Soil Structure
- Soil Water Management
Compost
- No Dig Growing Techniques
- Feeding Natives
- Pruning
- Temperature
- Planting, Staking, Mulching
- Special Planting Techniques
- Natives for Shade
- Controlling Weeds
- Propagation; seed, cuttings, etc
- Stock Plants
3. Eucalypts
- Introduction
- Types of Eucalypts; gums, stringybarks, boxes, ironbarks, yates, peppermints, etc.
- Hybrid Eucalypts
- Eucalypt Cultural Requirements
- Review of Important Eucalypt Species
4. Native Trees
- Casuarina; Casuarina and Allocasuarina, Gymnostoma and Ceuthostoma
- Casuarina Culture
- Review of Casuarina and Allocasuarina species
- Australian Conifers: Overview
- Cupressaceae: Actinostrobus, Calitris, Diselma
- Araucariaceae; Araucaria
- Podocarpaceae; Dacrydium, Microcachrys, Microstrobos, Phyllocladus, Podocarpus
- Taxodiaceae:
- Macadamias
- Brachychiton
- Angophora
- Lophostemon
5. Acacias
- Introduction to Legumes; Papilionoideae, Caesalpiniodeae and Mimosoideae
- Overview of Acacia
- Acacia Cultural Requirements
- Review of Important Acacia species
- Elements of drawing a Landscape Plan
- Landscape Design Procedure
6. Myrtaceous Australian Plants
- Review of the Myrtaceae Family
- Callistemon overview
- Callistemon Culture
- Important Callistemon cultivars and species
- Leptospermum overview and Culture
- Important Leptospermum Species
- Baeckea
- Calothamnus
- Calytrix
- Eugenia
- Homoranthus
- Kunzea
- Melaleuca
- Micromyrtus
- Scholtzia
- Syzygium
- Verticordia
- Thryptomene
7. Grevilleas
- Grevillea Overview
- Types of flower: Erect Cluster, Toothbrush, Pendant, Cylinder
- McCilveray’s Classification into eleven main groups
- Flower and Leaf Terminology
- Review of Low Growing Grevilleas
- Banksia Type Hybrids
- Hybrid Parents from tropics and sub tropics
- Poorinda Hybrids
- Review of many Important Species
- Grevillea Culture
- Related Proteaceae Natives: Dryandra, Hakea, Banksia, Telopea
8. Ground Cover and Small Shrubs
9. Commercial Applications
- Fragrant Natives
- Uses for Eucalyptus
- Uses for Grevilleas
- Uses for Acacia: timber, tanning, cut flowers, food, etc
- Aboriginal Uses for Acacias
- Growing Natives in Containers
- Bush Tucker
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