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The Horticulture Department offers an extensive range of courses for full-time and part-time students from NVQ Levels 1-3 in Landscaping, Nursery Production and Amenity Horticulture through to RHS General.
The department is one of only two in Wales to offer tuition for the RHS Advanced Certificate and the Diploma.
Additional City and Guilds courses in Garden Design, Growing Vegetables and Salads, Garden History and leisure gardening provide a full range of learning opportunities for both those in the horticulture industry and keen amateur gardeners.
Students from the department studying Garden History won the City and Guilds Learning and the Environment Award for 2008.
The department also offers one-day courses on specialist subjects such as growing vegetables and making your own hanging baskets.
The staff and students at the horticulture department have achieved considerable success in the field of landscaping and building show gardens. They have won Large Gold, Gold and Silver medals at the Royal Welsh Show, Silver Gilt medals at the Malvern Show and Bronze Medals at Gardners' World. The gardens that they have constructed have appeared on numerous local and national television programmes including BBC Gardeners' World and have been visited by gardening celebrities such as Joe Swift and also HRH Princess Anne.
In 2008, the team from Twyn yr Hydd won the Gold Medal Diploma for their display garden at the Royal Welsh Gardens Festival.
2008 was a special year for Twyn yr Hydd. For the first time, the gardens were open as part of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS). They will continue to be open as part of the scheme. Please phone for dates.
Working in conjunction with The Hebe Society, the College aims to establish, within the grounds at Twyn yr Hydd, one of the largest collections of hebes in Wales.
For further information please contact Bob Priddle, Richard Williams or Neil Barry on 01639 648261 or by e-mail robert.priddle@nptc.ac.uk
