Landscape Certifications
Certification Programs for Landscape Professionals
In BC’s competitive and growing landscape industry, professional certifications help set you apart. Whether you're a landscape contractor, technician, or horticulturalist, earning industry-recognized credentials demonstrates your expertise, commitment to quality, and dedication to best practices in sustainability and safety.
Landscape Horticulture Certification (LHCP)
This program enables nursery and landscape horticulture workers to learn and increase their levels of competence. It is suitable for both new workers and those already working in the industry, who want to develop their skill set, increase their levels of responsibility and raise professional standards.
This certification program is made available through the Canadian Nursery and Landscape Association and is based on a self-study model. Candidates complete a series of written tests and show proof of hands-on practical competencies to earn their certification under the following designations and modules:
- Certified Landscape Horticulturist Technician (available modules are softscape installation, hardscape installation, ornamental maintenance, turf maintenance, irrigation, retail horticulturist, nursery worker)
- Certified Landscape Designer
- Certified Landscape Horticulturist Manager
Certification tests are tailored to address various sector needs with some core topics common across multiple designations and modules. Technician candidates are required to secure an experienced professional to attest to their hands-on practical competencies.
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Landscape Horticulture Apprenticeship
Landscape Horticulture is a Red Seal Trade!
Since 2012, Landscape Horticulture has been designated as a Red Seal Trade, enabling people to travel across Canada to work, using their Red Seal as a prequalification to find work. Apprenticeship requires 6 weeks of in-school training per year for 4 years, along with a set number of hours worked in the industry to reach journeyman status. The Red Seal exam is then written to attain the certified status.
HortEducation.ca, an affiliate of BCLNA, supports potential and current apprentices, along with their employers, in navigating the apprenticeship and Red Seal accreditation process.
For Apprenticeship and Red Seal accreditation information in BC, contact:
Bill Hardy, HortEducation.ca