Arboriculture II - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Arboriculture II (intermediate) Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Intermediate Arboriculture Course. Build on your existing arboriculture knowledge! This follow on course delivered via distance learning and home study, builds on what you learned in Arboriculture I, but goes much deeper into planting and tree care.

It also develops your ability to treat trees in order to minimise potential long term tree problems, tolerance of different tree varieties to specific environmental conditions, plus bracing, felling and stump removal skills.

You will even learn how to establish a tree plantation including important knowledge of planning and producing scale drawings, plus designing wind breaks into the project for tree protection.

Once you have finished this informative program developed over many years by experts in tree health management, why not improve your skills even further with Trees for Rehabilitation and/or Deciduous Trees, covering trees such as: Maple, Birch, Ash, Oak, Prunus and other varieties?

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure:

1 Planting Techniques

• Soil
• Water
• Climate
• Maintenance
• Matching a tree to the site
• Local regulations
• Planting at the right time
• Planting techniques
• Plant size and age
• Container type
• Buying a tree
• How to plant a tree
• Watering method
• Transplanting a large tree
• Preparing for transplanting
• Aftercare
• Small feature trees
• Transplanting deciduous trees
• Pruning at planting
• Pocket planting
• Slope serratioin
• Wattling
• Planting on Arid sites
• Direct seeding
• Spray seeding
• Trees with berries

2 Controlling Plant Problems

• Temperature
• Frost
• Winds
• Acclimatisation
• Tree guards
• Other Tree Problems: Fire damage, Fire Resistant trees, pollution and toxic reactions, Soil contamination
• Treating foliage burn
• Soil rehabilitation
• Trees to extract soil contaminants
• Soil chemical composition
• Air pollution and tree growth
• Pollutant tolerant trees
• Pollution intolerant trees
• Trees to control Urban air pollution,
• Dry soils
• Symptoms of drought stressed trees
• Dry soil tolerant trees
• Trees for hot sites
• Drainage problems and trees
• Wet tolerant trees
• Tree health problems
• Resistant plant species
• Choosing and using pesticides safely
• Biological controls of pest and disease
• Life-cycles
• Tree termites
• Tree injections
• Tree nutrition and nutrition management
• Fertilisers

3 Strengthening Weak Trees

• Trimming
• Trimming techniques
• Adverse responses to trimming
• Thinning
• Bracing
• Temporary props
• Modern bracing systems
• Bolting
• Rodding technique
• Guy wires
• How strong is dead wood?
• Cabling

4 Controlling Damage Caused by Plants

• Tree damage
• Tree root problems,
• Trees that can cause problems with drains
• Orecautions with drains
• Selecting and using trees near drains
• Limiting root problems
• Root pruning
• Trees and the water table (Aquafiers)
• Trees and power lines
• Poisonous trees

5 Tree Felling and Stump Removal

• Tree evaluation systems
• Calculating tree value
• Tree removal
• Why remove a tree?
• Tree felling methods: Axe, Saws, Winches, Chain saw
• Controlling the fall
• Different methods or removing stumps
• Protecting trees
• National Tree registers
• Measuring tree height
• Keeping a work site safe: risk assessment, Duty of care,
• Costing jobs,

6 Tolerant Plant Species

• What to plant where
• Tree data required
• Influence of trees on buildings
• Species suitability
• Planning considerations
• Harsh environments
• Frost protection
• Frost resistant trees
• Sun protection
• Mulching
• Fencing
• Wind protection
• Wind tolerant trees
• Soil degradation
• Saline tolerant trees
• Lime tolerance
• Acid tolerance
• Hardy trees for inner city
• Review of several major genera (Aer, Fraxinus, Pinus, Quercus,

7 Establishing a Tree Plantation

• Windbreaks
• Windbreak design
• Choosing windbreak species
• Designing tree plantations
• Producing drawings to scale.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Gardeners, Arboriculture Enthusiasts, Horticulture Enthusiasts , Botanists

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

"The course will be a great help in my professional career but it also adds to my general knowledge of trees and enhances my interest in trees." Lisa