 The Correspondence Landscape and Garden Design course is designed to deliver essential information to those people who are interested but for any of reasons are not able to attend common courses. No timetables and dead-lines, you study at your own pace, staying at home and getting all you need to become a confident garden designer. The course will help you to arrange your own garden in more professional stylish manner or will give you a grave basis in your further studying.
Landscape and garden design enormously differs from other types of design. Here you deal with something that is permanently growing and changing its shape. Achieving a successful design requires much more than placing plants, trees and shrubs on the land; it is an art that deals with lots of objects arranging them in one complete composition. It is indeed a kind of art, its goal is to please public, to bring beauty and freshness.
The Landscape and Garden Design course is aimed at preparing students to work as a professional landscape and garden designer. It’s not just a “gardening” or “horticulture” course, but it contains full information on topic how to design gardens and everything you need to know to create original designs for clients. Students will explore all key aspects of landscape and garden design, including professional presentation and realization of design ideas.
Each lesson presents new knowledge and skills to learn. The course contains recommended tasks to fulfill for fixing learnt material.
Key areas of learning:
◊ History of garden design and garden design principles
◊ Soils and plants
◊ Pre-design information and drawing
◊ Landscaping products, walls, fences and gates
◊ Surfacing
◊ Garden structures and irrigation
◊ Garden styles, lighting and water features
◊ Earthworks, marking out and job costing
◊ Client-designer relationships and major design project
◊ Starting your own business
Having completed the course you will understand that design is not just a way putting things together. Achieving a successful garden design is like any other work of art. It includes realization which objects fit the composition and complete the common idea, and which of them damage the produce of designing. Your sense of beauty will improve!
Professional landscaping and garden designers are greatly appreciated all over the world. There are plenty of job opportunities available. On successful completion of the course students may work freelance (self-employed), delivering consultancy services directly to individual clients, or may investigate other opportunities for employment including:
- Landscaping show-homes for builders and property developers;
- Garden design consultancy services offered through nurseries and garden centres;
- Working as an in-house landscaping and garden designer at an architectural firm, providing a total design service to clients;
- Freelance consultancy service for local authorities and area development agencies.
Having completed the course students are expected to achieve high level of skills and knowledge. They will receive credibility and extremely good chances of entering design industry at a progressive level.
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