Garden Design Course: 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

Introduction - Garden Design Influences
Client-Designer Relationship -The Basic Principles of Garden Design
Planning the Garden
Taking measurements
Drawing the Plan
Preparing the garden
Equipment, Tools, Soil and Irrigation
Surfaces
Lawns and Steps
Planting
Garden features
Costing and estimation