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The World Wide Web is an effective and inexpensive means of delivering many courses designed for traditional vocational education and training. In suggesting a model for a working horticulture cyberschool 'special needs', the author has researched and designed a website since 2000, based on the typically abstract textual nature of current online technology. The paper and website have been designed and evaluated by the author, in conjunction with The Internet and Business Training Centre and University of Queensland, achieving its main aim, as highly specific and technically sound. However, I have one nagging, unanswered question, 'Have I designed an effective site for online special needs learning?' The answer to that question may vary according to the pedagogical rationale of the design template. In the case of special needs horticulture, the instructional design may be set in highly concrete knowledge domains, where knowledge-building activities support participative learning. This paper offers a model for a 'working' horticulture cyberschool 'special needs', as a result of reflection on action, in the form of five pedagogical dimensions (Reeves & Laffey, 1999) and the five categories of curriculum, as defined by Butler (2000). The set of pedagogical dimensions offers a possible solution to the current abstract nature of the World Wide Web, by prescribing a more interactive learning system. The five categories of curriculum provide a learning platform to integrate the competency-based curriculum packages, 'The amenity horticulture training package' with the knowledge building activities of the pedagogical dimensions. The terms 'working' and 'special needs' are used to communicate the point that all aspects of a horticulture cyberschool are more effectively addressed when the student is a person with special needs and an active participant in the learning process. It is suggested this model enables schools to offer viable technology driven packages for people with special needs, alongside traditional institutions, without incurring excessive facility or administrative costs.