Landscape Design - Garden Design
After this course you will be able to look at your garden and be able to identify what is wrong and fix the problems. This is a good introduction course to landscape design to wet your feet and get the basics right in your garden.
Course content:
Know your style and design goals.
Take inventory, design principles, design process.
Garden analysis.
Restyle a garden room, planting design, hard landscaping, and water in the garden.
Concept plan. Assessment – optional if you wish to obtain a certificate.
General Info.
To equip students with the knowledge necessary to gain a basic understanding of the requirements of landscape design. To provide a basic understanding of how to design a garden. This course is suitable for the novice, hobbyist, keen gardener, and the totally new gardener. We recommend it as a good starting point to learn new skills to improve your own garden.
Our lecturers are all qualified landscape designers who still operate landscape design businesses and have years of practical insight to impart to students. This information is not available on the web.
With years of knowledge behind them our lecturers will ensure that you do not make costly mistakes, will give words of wisdom on overcoming the different areas in the garden and of course make it fun.
Our lecturers are all qualified landscape designers who still operate landscape design businesses and have years of practical insight to impart to students. This information is not available on the web.
With years of knowledge behind them our lecturers will ensure that you do not make costly mistakes, will give words of wisdom on overcoming the different areas in the garden and of course make it fun.
What this course includes.
Some topics covered in the course include:
The 10 design goals
Design principles and elements of design
Planting Design
Hard Landscaping elements
Water in a landscape
Soft landscaping elements
How to design a garden from scratch.
Planning a garden from start to finish.
The 10 design goals
Design principles and elements of design
Planting Design
Hard Landscaping elements
Water in a landscape
Soft landscaping elements
How to design a garden from scratch.
Planning a garden from start to finish.
Prospectus?
Please email us and we will gladly send you our latest course prospectus.
What you will require.
Pen and Notebook : Course notes will be provided
What to expect from each course?
- Understanding the different styles of landscape design.
- The importance of design goals.
- Taking inventory of the garden.
- The important design principles, the basic building blocks of design.
- The design process. Where to start a design.
- Analysis a garden. What is existing in the garden. What factors on the site will have an impact on the design.
- Choose a style for a garden room.
- The secret of a planting design.
- Using hard landscaping elements in a design. e.g. paving, trellis, pebbles, arches, statues etc.
- The use of water in the garden.
- Developing a Concept plan for the garden. Combining all your ideas for the space to see if it will work.
- Assessment - A successful assessment will result in a certificate being issued.
- The importance of design goals.
- Taking inventory of the garden.
- The important design principles, the basic building blocks of design.
- The design process. Where to start a design.
- Analysis a garden. What is existing in the garden. What factors on the site will have an impact on the design.
- Choose a style for a garden room.
- The secret of a planting design.
- Using hard landscaping elements in a design. e.g. paving, trellis, pebbles, arches, statues etc.
- The use of water in the garden.
- Developing a Concept plan for the garden. Combining all your ideas for the space to see if it will work.
- Assessment - A successful assessment will result in a certificate being issued.
Course Duration.
3 Full Days Theory (09h00 to 16h00)
Course Dates.
8, 15 & 22 February 2025 Saturday
10, 17 & 24 May 2025 Saturday
Price.
R1 725,00
How to enrol?
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- After successful payment DO NOT close your internet browser tab. You will be re-directed to a page where you can complete an online enrolment form or download and email the enrolment form to us.
Once we receive all the information we will confirm your enrolment asap.
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