Abstract: Vocational education is an important way to cultivate skilled applied talents. With the continuous development of landscaping and the increasing demand for the construction of traditional characteristic buildings, there has always been a great gap in the professional talents of ancient landscape architecture. However, due to the limitations of the cooperation between schools and enterprises, it is difficult for the cultivation of students majoring in ancient architecture to meet the requirements of enterprises and social needs. This paper takes Suzhou Xiangshan Artisan Institute as an example to make a scientific training plan from the docking with the occupational demand; Corresponding to the vocational ability training, the construction of professional teachers team; Strengthening the output of skilled talents, the seamless connection between practice and theory in three aspects, exploring the vocational orientation of vocational colleges of ancient architecture specialty skilled talents training mode.

Key words: Landscape architecture, Suzhou Xiangshan artisan Institute, Skilled talents, Cultivation of talents