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Got my exam March 8th. Anyone got any good links for revision?

Trevor
East Yorkshire

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"Trevor" wrote in message
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Got my exam March 8th. Anyone got any good links for revision?

Trevor
East Yorkshire

I had a quick Google and can't find any.
How about reading your course work and the associated text books-or doesn't
it work like that .?

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Trevor wrote:
Got my exam March 8th. Anyone got any good links for revision?

Mine too. Where are you doing yours? Mine's in Northenden City College
Greater Manchester (my bellie's full of buterflies ...). I thought the
RHS would have had some kind of bite size revision thingy just like the
GCSE :o)

I'm spending the day with another student, having made list upon list
of 10 x spring bedding flowers, summer, herbaceous, then the botany
stuff ... It's the only way to get in into our heads! This 8th March is
the last of the old RHS course. They've started a new one last
September. We will be from the old school, you and I :o)

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Rupert wrote:
I had a quick Google and can't find any.

Beside Googling all the time, how is your garden Rupert?

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In message .com, La
Puce writes

Trevor wrote:
Got my exam March 8th. Anyone got any good links for revision?

Mine too. Where are you doing yours? Mine's in Northenden City College
Greater Manchester (my bellie's full of buterflies ...). I thought the
RHS would have had some kind of bite size revision thingy just like the
GCSE :o)

I'm spending the day with another student, having made list upon list
of 10 x spring bedding flowers, summer, herbaceous, then the botany
stuff ... It's the only way to get in into our heads! This 8th March is
the last of the old RHS course. They've started a new one last
September. We will be from the old school, you and I :o)

Good luck Helene. Good luck to Trevor too.
--
June Hughes

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June Hughes wrote:
Good luck Helene. Good luck to Trevor too.

HOOooo thank you June. It's as exciting as it is scary. Such a long
time I've done exams. But it's been two years now, flew by really, and
when it's about something one just love it's easier.

Off to get me spuds now. (For a moment I thought I sounded just like
'Christine on the telly' ;o)

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"La Puce" wrote in message
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Rupert wrote:
I had a quick Google and can't find any.

Beside Googling all the time, how is your garden Rupert?

That's not far off the mark at the moment. I ( and others) am involved in
preparing a database of on line plant suppliers and their quality of service
which means I have ended up with a plethora of plants all of which need
planting. I can't pronounce the names of half the stuff that is arriving
and have long forgotton what conditions they like.
A laptop and Google in the garden have been invaluable in the last few
weeks. (keyboards and compost not the best combination).
Goods luck with RHS thingy.

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"La Puce" wrote in message
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Trevor wrote:
Got my exam March 8th. Anyone got any good links for revision?

Mine too. Where are you doing yours? Mine's in Northenden City College
Greater Manchester (my bellie's full of buterflies ...). I thought the
RHS would have had some kind of bite size revision thingy just like the
GCSE :o)

I'm spending the day with another student, having made list upon list
of 10 x spring bedding flowers, summer, herbaceous, then the botany
stuff ... It's the only way to get in into our heads! This 8th March is
the last of the old RHS course. They've started a new one last
September. We will be from the old school, you and I :o)


Yes the last of the 'old' system Because of that our tutors think they will
just 'lift' the questions from the past 5 years papers.

We had a mock exam a week ago and were given the 2004 paper. At the time
(and still the case) I haven't done anything other than attend 60% of the
classes. I hadn't even looked at the past exam papers.

I mainly joined the class for the day out. I have a background of reading
gardening books and magazines for 30 years, though only finally got a proper
garden and the time to do some gardening 7 years ago.

I'm doing the course at Bishop Burton College near Beverley in East
Yorkshire. Unfortunately the RHS Advanced which they have been doing
recently ends this year, so I don't have the option to carry on.

At the beginning of the course our tutor told us that there was a job for
anyone who was interested in writing the definitive text book. In other
words there is a dearth of material available specifically for the course.

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"La Puce" wrote in message
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June Hughes wrote:
Good luck Helene. Good luck to Trevor too.

HOOooo thank you June. It's as exciting as it is scary. Such a long
time I've done exams. But it's been two years now, flew by really, and
when it's about something one just love it's easier.

Off to get me spuds now. (For a moment I thought I sounded just like
'Christine on the telly' ;o)


....wouldn't she say 'me taties'?

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On 4/2/06 18:08, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:


"La Puce" wrote in message
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Rupert wrote:
I had a quick Google and can't find any.

Beside Googling all the time, how is your garden Rupert?

That's not far off the mark at the moment. I ( and others) am involved in
preparing a database of on line plant suppliers and their quality of service
which means I have ended up with a plethora of plants all of which need
planting.
snip

Just out of interest, why are you doing this? Is it with the object of
publishing a sort of 'Which' for people wanting to order plants online?
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)

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Trevor wrote:

Yes the last of the 'old' system Because of that our tutors think they will
just 'lift' the questions from the past 5 years papers.
We had a mock exam a week ago and were given the 2004 paper. At the time
(and still the case) I haven't done anything other than attend 60% of the
classes. I hadn't even looked at the past exam papers.

And how did you do?

I mainly joined the class for the day out. I have a background of reading
gardening books and magazines for 30 years, though only finally got a proper
garden and the time to do some gardening 7 years ago.

Do you have A Handbook for Horticultural Students by Peter Dawson. It
is *exactly* what you need. He based it on the RHS course for RHS
students and it's simply the best book to have. We have, today,
classified all our notes according to the book - made list of 5 summer
bedding flowers, spring ones, foliage plant, hardy annuals, hedges
(formal/informal), herbaceous, climbing and shrubs. Then we looked at
the maintenance of the ones we have chosen. Tomorrow we will look at
roots inside out, vegetative reproduction, leaf, flower structure and
cells. Monday we will make questions to each others - then revise
glasshouses, machinery, tools and soil.

Do you want past papers? I have last years (they cost £2.50 and takes
ages to come). I have also perhaps 20 pages of selected questions from
1998 till now. Just email me, I'll scan them for you or just bang them
in the post :o)

I'm doing the course at Bishop Burton College near Beverley in East
Yorkshire. Unfortunately the RHS Advanced which they have been doing
recently ends this year, so I don't have the option to carry on.
At the beginning of the course our tutor told us that there was a job for
anyone who was interested in writing the definitive text book. In other
words there is a dearth of material available specifically for the course.

How strange. Do you mean you haven't been told about the above book I
mentioned?

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Rupert wrote:

That's not far off the mark at the moment. I ( and others) am involved in
preparing a database of on line plant suppliers and their quality of service
which means I have ended up with a plethora of plants all of which need
planting. I can't pronounce the names of half the stuff that is arriving
and have long forgotton what conditions they like.
A laptop and Google in the garden have been invaluable in the last few
weeks. (keyboards and compost not the best combination).

Poor chap. Do you mean to say you are kinda 'testing' the plants
yourself from ordering them to planting them and see how they perform
plus the 'customer care' you're getting from the suppliers ? This is
amazing.

Goods luck with RHS thingy.

Thank you very much :o)

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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 4/2/06 18:08, in article , "Rupert"
wrote:


"La Puce" wrote in message
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Rupert wrote:
I had a quick Google and can't find any.

Beside Googling all the time, how is your garden Rupert?

That's not far off the mark at the moment. I ( and others) am involved
in
preparing a database of on line plant suppliers and their quality of
service
which means I have ended up with a plethora of plants all of which need
planting.
snip

Just out of interest, why are you doing this? Is it with the object of
publishing a sort of 'Which' for people wanting to order plants online?
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)


AFAIK the database will not be available for publication. A colleague/friend
got me involved as a favour to him. He is in the Hort game and I guess they
are considering expanding into the internet supply of plants. I am just
one of several people who are responsible for instigating purchases and then
reporting accordingly. Very sad that a majority of the stuff that has been
bought gets shredded unless I can intervene and get my hands on it first.
When and If I am allowed to give more details, this group will be the first
to know

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"La Puce" wrote in message
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Rupert wrote:

That's not far off the mark at the moment. I ( and others) am involved
in
preparing a database of on line plant suppliers and their quality of
service
which means I have ended up with a plethora of plants all of which need
planting. I can't pronounce the names of half the stuff that is arriving
and have long forgotton what conditions they like.
A laptop and Google in the garden have been invaluable in the last few
weeks. (keyboards and compost not the best combination).

Poor chap. Do you mean to say you are kinda 'testing' the plants
yourself from ordering them to planting them and see how they perform
plus the 'customer care' you're getting from the suppliers ? This is
amazing.


It's not that amazing something similar but less exhaustive was done several
years ago by a now well known on line plant supplier .
How the plants perform does not come into it. It's implicit that the success
of the plant is down to the recipient (assuming the plant is in good
condition when it is received). As I told Sacha most of the stuff is binned
because there is no requirement to plant and there is a limit to what you
can do with dozens of plants all of the same variety

Packaging/cost ratios/delivery/health/root volume/billing procedure/pot
shape/dimensions/care instructions/complaint procedure ---it goes on and on
but you get the idea. The actual data required varies from plant to plant
and that is the most difficult bit to predefine.
The suppliers are not limited to the UK so there is some pretty weird stuff
coming in.
Anything dead or "iffy" goes to a company specialising in microbiology who
input into the database.
I have had a sneak preview of the data and there is nothing that surprises
me (yet) other than the complexity of the beast.
It's very early days as the project runs for a year and only started Nov
2005.

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Rupert wrote:

It's not that amazing something similar but less exhaustive was done several
years ago by a now well known on line plant supplier .
How the plants perform does not come into it. It's implicit that the success
of the plant is down to the recipient (assuming the plant is in good
condition when it is received). As I told Sacha most of the stuff is binned
because there is no requirement to plant and there is a limit to what you
can do with dozens of plants all of the same variety

I know several community gardens, ran by volunteers, I know several
'therapy' gardens for people with great needs. Pretty please let us
know when these are available. I'll come and get them in our big
routmaster. And I'll bake you a cake. We will in fact make you all a
cake each :o)

Packaging/cost ratios/delivery/health/root volume/billing procedure/pot
shape/dimensions/care instructions/complaint procedure ---it goes on and on
but you get the idea. The actual data required varies from plant to plant
and that is the most difficult bit to predefine.
The suppliers are not limited to the UK so there is some pretty weird stuff
coming in.
Anything dead or "iffy" goes to a company specialising in microbiology who
input into the database.
I have had a sneak preview of the data and there is nothing that surprises
me (yet) other than the complexity of the beast.
It's very early days as the project runs for a year and only started Nov
2005.

Do beleive me - I think this is amazing. One more question. Is this for
a large commercial nursery or someone like Mori?