Landscape Horticulture Certificate is a certificate in Horticulture and Crop Science programme taught at Okanagan College in Kelowna, Canada. The programme runs for 8 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,491 per total for local students.
This short, on-campus certificate runs part-time over eight weeks and totals 120 hours of in-person instruction, meeting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings through mid-afternoon at the Kelowna campus. Coursework covers botany and soil science, plant identification, landscape construction and maintenance, turf care, tree and shrub pruning, pest and disease management, and the fundamentals of landscape design. No admission requirements are stated for entry, and at least half of the program must be completed through Okanagan College, with a minimum grade of 60 percent required in each course. The certificate is intended for those seeking entry-level work in landscaping and grounds care, with graduates prepared for roles such as landscape technician, grounds maintenance worker, plant care technician, nursery worker, or turf maintenance technician. Typical employers named on the program page include landscape companies, municipal parks departments, golf courses, garden centres, and property management firms.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Okanagan College's own program page states plainly: 'No admission requirements.' Unlike most Okanagan College certificates, which set at minimum a secondary-school-graduation-or-mature-applicant floor and an English course grade, this Landscape Horticulture certificate names no academic prerequisite, no English or French language test or course grade, and no age, portfolio or work-experience condition. Two part-time, on-campus sessions run at the Kelowna campus: October 26 to December 11, 2026, and January 18 to March 5, 2027, both delivered Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; both were listed as open for applications at the time of this review.
Application Details
Start Date:October 2026 and January 2027 (Kelowna)
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC (a $30 CAD fee): Okanagan College sets no fixed closing date for most programmes in the 2026-27/2027-28 cycle. Applications for a Fall intake open at 8:30 a.m. on October's first business day of the preceding year, and for a Winter intake at 8:30 a.m. on February's first business day of the preceding year (exceptions apply); Practical Nursing's January intake opens at 9:00 a.m. on April's first business day of the preceding year. Most programmes accept applications until seats fill, though Nursing and Dental programmes set their own fixed or ranked deadlines on their own pages. International applicants also apply through EducationPlannerBC, paying a $100 CAD per-programme fee; the College publishes no institution-wide international closing date and directs applicants to each programme's own page. Admission is otherwise rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
