Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.rec.gardening, I
heard je71 say...
I'm in weston super mare (whos college does not offer ANY
horticulture courses!) I think following on from a lot of good advice
here, my goals are changing somewhat, I think I may try to get on a
classroom based course Cannington college isnt too far and they do a
BTEC First Diploma in Horticulture maybe i could then progress on to
BTEC National Diploma in Horticulture (Garden Design ) in the mean
time try to get some work "Labouring" for a landscape gardener which
seems to be the more lucrative area, then hopefully become a garden
designer who can also offer to do the Hard landscaping side of things
as well as the planting! Does this sound feasable to you?

The First Diploma is aimed at kids who haven't got the requisite 4 Cs at
GCSE to get onto a National Certificate or National Diploma course.
Don't waste your time on this, but go straight for the NC (1 year) or ND
(2 years with work experience). Find out what optional units the
college offers in addition to the core subjects. I'm doing Landscape
Construction, Design (additional to the compulsory design unit) and CAD
as options, which should give me the grounding I want, but our place
also offers Rock & Water, Sports Turf Management and Landscape Ecology
as options.
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Fenny
Fictitious Facts of the Day - from a list by Andrew Burford
#230: All the stock for cooking in the entire world is made at
Stockholm.