Design or rethink your own garden. Takes you through drawing up a plan, planning the space, hard landscape layout and planting plans, plus how to draw up your proposals.
Learn how to survey the garden using running dimensions, offsets and triangulation. Gain an appreciation of levels and a full assessment of the site in its current state.
Learn how to express yourself graphically with a full understanding of your drawing equipment and how to use it. Manipulate space on paper, playing with shapes and patterns creating designs which could be applied to gardens. Using the grid. Conventions of drawing up a layout plan detailing all hard landscaping elements.
An overall appraisal of appropriate hard landscaping materials such as walls, steps, paths, paving, and garden features. How to integrate your proposals within the existing framework.
Learn the conventions of drawing up a planting plan to scale depicting trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, climbers etc. Understand the use of structural, accent and decorative plants. Drawing elevations of your plans to present to others.
Learn how to communicate your design intent with visuals and mood boards to bring your plan to life.
The EGS Distance Learning tutors have been trained at the English Gardening School by many of today’s leading garden designers, horticulturists and plantsmen. Our course attracts Distance Learning students from all over the world, who often use the course as a stepping stone to a new career.
You will need a garden to use while on the course. Your own or a friend’s garden. The therapeutic effect of gardening is well known and the course is an enjoyable learning curve.
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Apply for this courseA practical course covering all the essential tasks needed to understand, restore or maintain an existing garden, including seasonal tasks, tools, plant diseases, pruning and propagation and the kitchen garden. Assessing your garden & making a garden plan Appraising and analysing the site, nature of the soil, aspect ...
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