Green Industries Institute for Professional Development

Provides the basic skills needed to understand a landscape plan, including how to read a scale and a plant list; this course is ideal for estimators.

Course by: Joy Dorst

FNGLA: 1 CEU

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: BEGINNING

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Presents relevant research on the environmental impact of plants on people’s physical, psychological, and behavioral needs within indoor environments.

Course by: Joy Dorst

APLD: 2 CEUs

FBLA: 2 CEUs
FBLA course approval #0008181

FNGLA: 2 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

REGISTER NOW $40.00

Introduces the professional to the economic value of landscape amenities, including rate of return and resale values; ideal for marketing the value added by professional landscape services.

Course by: Joy Dorst

APLD: 2 CEUs

FNGLA: 2 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Design outdoor rooms that complement our contemporary American lifestyle. This course introduces the designing for function and organization of outdoor rooms with an environmentally responsive ethic

Course by: Joy Dorst

APLD: 2 CEUs

FNGLA: 2 CEUs

FBLA: 2 CEUs
FBLA course approval #0008199

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Reviews the history, traditional and cultural plant selection, contemporary practices, and the plants utilized in the healing art of aromatherapy.

Course by: Nancy Stephens
Taught by: Joy Dorst

APLD:4 CEUs

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Offers landscape managers methodologies to protect and conserve the quality of surface and ground water supplies.

Course by: UF/IFAS and Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Taught by: Gale Allbritton 

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

FBLA: 4 CEUs
FBLA course approval #0008179

PLANET: 1 CE

FDACS: 4 CEUs (1 Core, O&T = 3, PVT = 3, L&O = 3, LCLM = 3, LL&O = 3)
FDACS course approval #3540

Landscape designer course level: BEGINNING

Introduces butterfly gardening, natural history of butterflies and the necessities to advise landscape design clients and retail customers on the subject.

Course by: Donna Legare
Taught by: Joy Dorst

APLD: 4 CEUs

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Introduces butterfly gardening, natural history of butterflies and the necessities to advise landscape design clients and retail customers on the subject.

Course by: Joy Dorst

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Introduction to the basics of successful container gardening, exploring the use of container gardens, basic design elements and settings, and container types and materials.

Course by: Audrey Alessi
Taught by: Gale Allbritton

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Provides principles and techniques of efficient and effective irrigation, as well as water conscious landscape design, installation, and management practices.

Course by: Joy Dorst

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

APLD: 4 CEUs

Landscape professional course level: INTERMEDIATE

Presents how to enhance any garden with the proper plant selection and placement of plants, hardscape, lighting, water feature, ornament and structures.We recommend Landscape Design Principles as a prerequisite.

Course by: Joy Dorst

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Presents a historical to contemporary perspective, focusing on plant materials functioning as aesthetic, visual, architectural, environmental, and economic factors.

Course by: Joy Dorst

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE

Provides landscaping businesses with a guide for using a marketing plan, public relations, advertising and professional assistance to promote their businesses

Course by: Laurie Prescott
Taught by: Gale Allbritton

FNGLA: 4 CEUs

PLANET: 1 CE

APLD: 4 CEUs

Landscape designer course level: INTERMEDIATE