BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
- Start Date: 27 Sep, 2021
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Learn how to care for house plants, with home gardening tips from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Discover how to make any room beautiful with these indoor gardening tips
House plants can help make any indoor space more beautiful. Growing and taking care of house plants can also offer mood-boosting benefits.
This course from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine will provide you with tips and advice on how to grow plants indoors. You’ll learn how to make the most of space, repeat outdoor growing triumphs inside, and travel the world through exploring exotic plants.
Indoor gardening tips for every type of houseplant
This indoor gardening course covers different types of house plants and their differing needs. These might include cacti, orchids, palms, bulbs, and more.
You’ll learn what sorts of indoor plants can thrive in different environments maximising available light and space. You’ll discover how to care for house plants, including watering and nutrition, and how to look out for pests and disease.
Explore the origins of house plants to improve the quality and health of your plants
As well as learning how to care for your indoor plants, you’ll explore from where different house plants originate. This will help you understand how to care for them, by building a healthy, familiar environment. You’ll also learn about the history of house plants, and the role they’ve played in society.
Finally, you’ll explore the all-important question of what to do when you go on holiday – and how to give your house plants one, too.
Anyone who wants to learn how to care for houseplants can benefit from this course. Perhaps you want to enliven an indoor space. You may have downsized to a home without a garden. Or maybe you just want more plants in your life.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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