This course covers plant identification, general characteristics of Australian flora, information contacts, review of major Australian plant families, cultural techniques, planting, staking, mulching, watering, pest and disease, feeding, pruning, protection from wind, salt air, mounds and raised beds, containers, eucalypts, native trees - casuarinas, brachychiton, tristania, angophora, callitris, araucaria, palms, etc, acacias, melaleucas, callistemons and leptospermums, grevilleas concentrated study of 25 species, ground cover and small shrubs and commercial applications.