Foundational Horticulture Skills and Techniques
Enable your employees to master horticulture fundamentals with Back2Basics Online Training, developed for self-paced learning anytime.
Expert-Led Green Industry Training and Onboarding
Increase your team’s skills with live webinars or recorded on-demand flexible learning modules led by horticulture professionals that deliver foundational knowledge and practical techniques.
Back2Basics Online Training modules support onboarding for new hires and can also be used by managers and owners to enhance existing programs or provide refresher training for current staff.
Expert-led instruction will:
- Boost understanding of fundamental and best practices
- Provide practical tips and foundational knowledge of a specific business sector
- Present insights from green industry experts
How It Works
Participants can attend a live webinar or workshop or watch the recordings in flexible on-demand options.
AmericanHort members can access Back2Basics Online Training Modules at any time, at no additional cost. Just log in to your profile and visit the online library of recordings.
Non-members can register for Back2Basics program or recorded Back2Basics content.
Discover the Back2Basics Online Training Available
Garden Retail: Elevate Customer Experience and Sales
What it does: Helps to create thriving plants and loyal customers through enhanced training.
Ideal for: Garden Retail Center staff, retail managers, and trainers who wish to enhance skills.
What the course(s) offer:
- Develops best practices for watering, media selection and visual merchandising.
- Teaches customer-centric approaches to enhance customer service skills, including how to confidently guide customers for plant care success.
Greenhouse: Best Practices for Healthy, High-Quality Crops
What it does: Strengthens teams’ knowledge of crops from the roots up with targeted training.
Ideal for: Ideal for growers, production managers, greenhouse technicians that want to enhance skills to increase plant production, efficiency, and quality.
What the course(s) offer:
- Provides essential strategies for disease management, biocontrol and pesticide/fertilizer application.
- Instructs participants on irrigation optimization and how it connects to better growth outcomes.
- Explores plant nutrition and substrate selection (for improved growth).
- Details established tissue culture practices to expand propagation capabilities.
Interior Plantscape: Plant Health, Maintenance, and Customer Service
What it does: Elevates indoor plant care expertise; goes beyond the basics to cover service, science and aesthetics.
Ideal for: Interior plantscapers, maintenance technicians and/or companies seeking to increase skills and offer premium services in plant care and customer service.
What the course(s) offer:
- Provides essentials of plant health—from diagnosing diseases to advanced pruning techniques.
- Teaches the importance of proper pruning and irrigation strategies for plant vitality.
- Instructs participants on service standards in indoor high-end environments.
- Enhances customer service skills.
- Develops understanding of the proper media for interior plantscapes.
Nursery: Strategies for Healthier, More Resilient Plants
What it does: Increases your team’s knowledge of nursery operations, providing healthier plants and more productive operations.
Ideal for: Nursery managers, growers, operational leaders who want to develop strong, safe and scalable practices.
What the course(s) offer:
- Expert advice on disease prevention, IPM strategies, nematode control, fungicide best practices and irrigation management.
- Learn to select the right perennial inputs.
- Best practices to implement for workplace safety.
Landscape: Maximizing Efficiency, Profitability, and Plant Health
What it Does: Trains teams to grow healthier landscapes and stronger profits.
Ideal for: Landscape business owners, crew leaders, and technicians looking to improve performance, customer satisfaction and profits.
What the course(s) offer:
- Learn pre-emergent herbicide strategies and pesticide certification prep to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
- Tactics to expand billable services and provide increased value to clients and improve customer service.
- Ways to improve plant health by using precise/proper fertilizer and irrigation techniques.
- Master service workflows and improve customer communications.
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