This course enables horticultural students to specialise in the study of plant diversity and plant management; the course explores the specific cultivation requirements of plant communities by relating cultivated plants to their natural environments; the course includes the systematic classification of plants, plant ecology, plant distribution, production and cultivation techniques as well as the study of the many and varied situations where plants are grown; the course also considers the importance of plant collections such as those in botanic gardens and gardens open to the public, and the commercialization of plant species to society; in the final year student undertake an independent investigation related to horticultural plantsmanship.