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TCLP Study Manual

The Texas Certified Landscape Professional (TCLP) study manual includes TNLA's Best of Texas Landscape Guide. Both are DIGITAL DOWNLOADS in PDF format. TNLA's Best of Texas Landscape Guide is a useful study tool for the Plant Characteristics and Plant ID section of the TCLP exam.

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TCLP Manual Objectives Include:

  • Practice Questions
  • Texas Landscape Contracting Industry
  • Landscape Design
  • Landscaping for Resource Efficiency and Environmental Safety
  • Landscape Construction Documents
  • Surveying, Site Layout and Grading
  • Wood in the Landscape Fences, Decks and Overhead Structures
  • Circulation Systems: Paving and Edging
  • Landscape Equipment and Safety
  • Basic Botany
  • Soils and Fertilizer
  • Woody Landscape Plants
  • Herbaceous Plants
  • Turf Culture
  • Landscape Irrigation
  • Basic Entomology
  • Basic Plant Pathology
  • Diagnostic Key to Landscape Plant Problems
  • Understanding Pesticides
  • Pruning