This comprehensive Diploma course covers a wide range of topics from the History of Garden Design and famous garden designers to choosing plants for a contemporary garden; from Plans to Professional Practice, this professional Diploma covers it all.

This course will give you both the knowledge and confidence required to carry out your own garden design projects more professionally, to start or enhance a business or alternatively, it will offer you a guaranteed progression route to further study for a degree.

• UNIT 1. THE BACKGROUND TO GARDEN DESIGN - This Unit presents an overview of garden design through its’ history, styles and most influential designers.
• UNIT 2. UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF A GARDEN DESIGNER - This Unit introduces the processes and realities which make up a garden design project; detailing the sequence of running a project, developing the client brief, exploring the potential of individual sites and working with contractors and specialist consultants.
• UNIT 3. PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES - Garden designers must understand, analyse and communicate to clients, the information gathered from the site survey.
• UNIT 4. UNDERSTANDING THE COMPONENTS OF GARDEN DESIGN - This Unit discusses how the components of garden design; the plants, boundaries, structures, ornaments, landforms and surfaces can be selected, arranged and combined to make gardens which are greater than the sum of their parts.
• UNIT 5. UNDERSTANDING PLANTS - Planting is a key component which provides much of the character for the majority of gardens.
• UNIT 6. USING HARD LANDSCAPING MATERIALS - This Unit looks at the functional and visual qualities of materials which can be used in the garden and their specific applications.
• UNIT 7. SELECTING PLANT TYPES FOR GARDEN DESIGN - The second specialist planting Unit expands upon the first, this time concentrating on the benefits that plants bring directly to a garden design through their visual qualities, placement and function.
• UNIT 8. SELECTING FURNITURE AND FEATURES - This Unit discusses the furniture and features which bring added functionality or enhanced experience to the garden space for your client.
• UNIT 9. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE FOR GARDEN DESIGN - This Unit explores the various skills and approaches which are essential when practising as a garden designer such as marketing and sourcing projects, how to adopt a professional approach when charging for work produced and the sourcing of suppliers and contractors.
• UNIT 10. PRODUCING A GARDEN DESIGN - This Unit brings together all the design elements of the course and shows how they can be woven together across the whole design spectrum to create an integrated, harmonious garden design.

Course Type:

Certified Training Course

Study Mode:

Online

Location:

Worldwide

Fees:

$1,950

Certification:

UK AIM Awards Level 3 Diploma

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