LEARN TO DESIGN IN A WIDE RANGE OF GARDEN DESIGN STYLES!
Learn to apply the principles, design features and elements that make up many types and styles of gardens. This is an outstanding course for even experienced landscape designers, developing skills in developing everything from a formal to an eclectic garden, and a Mediterranean to an oriental landscape.
Lesson Structure
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- Creating the Mood
- Active vs Passive
- Simple vs. complex
- Movement vs. Static
- Light vs. Shade
- Managing Light and Shade
- Increasing or Reducing Light
- Plants that Thrive in Shade
- Garden Lighting
- Other Factors that Affect Mood
- What Do You Want in a Garden
- Personality in the Garden
- Keeping it in Scale
- Colour and the Garden
- Using Coloured Statuary
- Other Coloured Surfaces
- Psychological Effects of Colours
- Water in the Garden
- Hot Plants
- Making a Garden Appear Cooler
- Site Analysis
- Macro Design
- Designing a Garden Room
- Historic Gardens
- Introduction
- Roman Gardens
- Chinese Gardens
- Landscape Designers
- Historic Considerations
- Other Types of Gardens; formal, informal, natural, resort, permaculture, herb, rose, cottage
- Cottage Garden Design
- Cottage Garden Features
- Plants in a Cottage Garden
- Federation Gardens
- Edwardian Gardens
- Formal Gardens
- Introduction
- Design Elements of Formal Gardens
- Types of Formal Garden; Avenue, hedged beds, etc
- Planting in Formal Gardens
- Traditional Ornamentation; Sundials, Weather vanes, Bird Baths
- Traditional Furniture; seats, pots, arbours, arches, gazebos
- Formal Courtyards
- Oriental Gardens
- Introduction
- Chinese Gardens
- Japanese Gardens
- Types of Japanese Gardens: Hill and Pond, Dry Landscape, Tea Garden, Stroll Garden, Courtyard, Classic Rock Garden
- Japanese Garden Features; Tori, Shishi-odishi, Moss Garden, Bamboo Fence, Bridges
- Bonsai
- Ornamental Grasses
- Middle Eastern and Spanish Style
- Introduction
- Features of Moorish Gardens
- Sense of Enclosure
- Mexican Style
- Mexican Planting Schemes
- Use of Coloured Gravel
- Mediterranean Gardens
- Introduction
- Features of Mediterranean Gardens
- Regional Differences
- Colours
- Built Landscape
- Plant Material
- Use of Paint
- Veranda Gardens
- Making the Most of Small Spaces
- Microclimates
- Coastal Gardens
- Coastal Garden Features
- Temperature, Humidity and Wind
- Windbreaks
- Salt and Soil Conditions
- Coastal Plants
- Modern Gardens
- Introduction
- Technology in the garden; screens, lights, water features, music
- Maintenance
- Architecture; shapes and angles, colour, sculpture
- Courtyards
- Inner City Gardens
- Types of Inner City Gardens
- Future Trends
- Eclectic Gardens
- Creating an Eclectic Garden
- Using Garden Ornaments in an Eclectic Garden
- Plants
- Living Art
- Topiary
- Hedges
- Pleaching
- Miniature Gardens
- Trough Gardens
- Pebble Gardens
- Art Gardens
- Public Gardens
- Other Styles
- Dryland Gardens
- The Desert Landscape
- Xeriscapes
- Australian Bush Garden
- Cacti and Succulent Gardens
- Minimalist Landscapes
- Permaculture
- Rainforest Gardens
- Tropical Style Gardens
- Bird Attracting Gardens
- Bulb Gardens
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Course Aims:
- Explain the use of colour, light, shade, temperature, water, foliage and other elements in establishing the mood of a garden.
- Describe gardens from different places and periods in history; and in doing so explain how to renovate and/or recreate gardens that reflect the style of different historic periods.
- Apply the principles, design features and elements that make up a formal garden.
- Discuss cultural and historical traditions that contributed to the development and style of the oriental garden.
- Discuss cultural and historical traditions that have contributed to the development and style of the Middle Eastern and Spanish garden.
- Discuss the historic, climatic and cultural influences which have contributed to the style of Mediterranean gardens.
- Discuss design styles of coastal gardens
- Explain the limitations and potential of coastal sites when preparing a landscape design.
- Discuss contemporary garden design styles and possible future trends in garden design.
- Identify the range of diversity possible in garden design.
- Identify characteristics of different garden styles including eclectic, dryland, rainforest and tropical garden styles.
- Design different styles of gardens.