Urban Horticulture at Burnley Campus
With over 100 years of tradition, Burnley is Australia’s leader in horticultural education and training. Our staff and diverse programs will ensure that you gain a qualification that can get you building a career in horticulture. Burnley will open doors for you in horticultural industries all over Australia through its strong and deserved reputation as the place for horticulture.
Our facilities are more than simply historic and beautiful. They also offer you the best environment in which to study horticulture.
- 13 hectares of heritage ornamental gardens and research areas
- Comprehensive landscape construction area
- Training gardens for design and maintenance
- Container and field nurseries
- Pruning garden and experimental plots
- Horticultural machinery and equipment
- Research and computer laboratories and facilities
- Thousands of plant specimens for plant identification
- Horticultural library
Burnley Gardens are listed on the Victorian Heritage register. The site is significant in architectural, cultural and social terms, particularly for:
- The design of its ornamental gardens.
- The connection with the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria.
- Being Australia’s first school of horticulture.
- Its diverse collection of mature trees in an historic garden setting, with associated field research area, and specialist facilities for training in nursery garden management, landscape construction and arboriculture.
“Professionally, Burnley has set me up in a industry by providing me with the technical and practical skills and introducing me to many people within the different fields of horticulture. Nearly all the people I deal with on a day to day basis came from Burnley and having this connection has been very important and really helped with my career
and achieving things at work. On a personnel level Burnley has helped me find a career in an area where I enjoy to come to work every day, there are so many interesting challenges in the arboriculture industry, I am continually learning. Also, working with some of the most beautiful trees in the world and being involved in the creation and maintenance of Melbourne’s streetscapes/parkscapes is very gratifying!”
Oliver Pohls
Tree Planner, Parks & Recreation, City of Melbourne