garden design

this course is also available through e-learn web based distance learning

Distance learning course of 12 lessons

Explore the art of garden design in this comprehensive course. You will learn the fundamental elements of style, basic techniques and professional tricks necessary to design the gardens of your dreams.

Professional garden design is something that is inspirational and is essentially solving the various logistical problems associated with what you have to work with, where to position such items as pathways, swimming pools, tennis courts, water features, flower beds and which plants would be most suited. Good garden design adds these ingredients to create a style in keeping with the site, the house and your client’s requirements.

The whole process of design begins long before you put pen to paper. Your initial job is to find out just what you have and then what you want to achieve based on this initial fact finding.

Once this basic analysis is completed, you can then move on to the fun job of preparing the design.

Syllabus

Elements of design

Establishing priorities

Sources of inspiration

Drawing up the survey

Shaping and contouring

Water, drainage and irrigation

Marking out

Space and proportion

Boundaries and dividers

Walls, fences, trellises and hedges

Horizontal surfaces, lawns and ground cover

Rigid surfaces, natural stone, paving, bricks and tiles

Steps and ramps

Major features, ponds, bridges, pools and buildings

Water and rock features

Planting design and planting plans

Colour in the garden

Lighting and special effects

Qualification: Garden Design Diploma

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