Develop Maintenance Programmes in Hard and Soft Landscaping

22209 version 1 Page 1 of 3 Develop maintenance programmes in hard and soft landscaping

Level 4

Credits 6

Purpose This unit standard is for people working, or intending to work, in landscaping. People credited with this unit standard are able to develop a maintenance programme for: lawns; trees, shrubs and climbers; annuals, perennials, and bulbs; hard landscaping areas; and to prepare a costing for a defined term landscape maintenance programme.

Subfield Horticulture

Domain Landscape

Status Registered

Status date 25 September 2006

Date version published 25 September 2006

Planned review date 31 December 2011

Entry information Open.

Replacement information This unit standard replaced unit standard 1024.

Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and teaching professional in the same field from another provider.

Standard setting body (SSB) Primary Industry Training Organisation

Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0032 This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.

Special notes

Workplace procedures refer to verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for the worksite and equipment.

Elements and performance criteria

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Element 1

Develop a maintenance programme for lawns.

Range sown and turfed lawns.

Performance criteria

1.1 A one year maintenance programme is developed for lawns from laying or seeding date, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.

Range may include but is not limited to – mowing, weed control, chemical and non chemical control, fertilising, watering, aeration and thatch control, non-destructive levelling, re-seeding or re-turfing.

Element 2

Develop a maintenance programme for trees, shrubs and climbers.

2.1 A five year maintenance programme is developed for trees, climbers, and shrubs from the first year of planting, and work to be undertaken at each stage of the programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.

Range may include but is not limited to – weed control, chemical and non chemical control methods, pruning and training, fertilising, watering, stakes and support structures, protective structures, ground cultivation, replacing dead or damaged plants.

Element 3

Develop a maintenance programme for annuals, perennials, and bulbs.

3.1 A five year maintenance programme is developed for annuals, perennials and bulbs from planting, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.

Range may include but is not limited to – weed control, fertilising, watering, ground cultivation, chemical and non chemical control methods, dead-heading, tying back, trimming, lifting and storing bulbs, removal and disposal of annuals, planned rotation of bedding plants and bulbs, conditioning the soil, planting new annuals, planting bulbs.

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Element 4

Develop a maintenance programme for hard landscaping areas.

4.1 A maintenance programme is developed for a hard landscaping area for at least two years, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.

Range may include but is not limited to – hard surfaces, timber features, water features.

Element 5

Prepare a costing for a defined term landscape maintenance programme.

5.1 A quantity survey is documented for a one year term maintenance programme in accordance with workplace procedures.

Range lawn, soft landscaping, hard landscaping, specialist plants, landscape materials.

5.2 A quote is prepared for a defined term maintenance programme.

5.3 The quote is presented in accordance with workplace procedures.

Please note

Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.

Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.

Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.

Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.

Comments on this unit standard

Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation www.primaryito.ac.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.

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