The Complete Garden Design Course – 4. The Process of Design

A step-by-step process, used by garden designers and landscape architects, from surveying a plot to the finished design

Created by: Henry Mead
Garden and Landscape Designer

What Will I Learn?

• • Learn one of the essential skills of a garden designer - the process of garden design - which can be applied to gardens of all sizes and styles
• • This process is a step-by-step procedure that will take you from surveying a garden plot to the completed design
• • Discover how to survey a garden plot, create a survey plan and other methods of recording the features and qualities of a garden
• • Learn a systematic way of capturing the needs and aspirations of the garden users
• • Learn how to assess the design potential of a garden and how to create a strategy as a starting point for the design stage
• • Follow how the process is applied to a real garden design project from the first visit to the completed design, and then create your own design for the garden

Requirements

• No pre-existing skills are needed for this course.
• However it would be useful to have learnt the techniques taught in the earlier three courses in this series of courses titled 'The Complete Garden Design Course'.
• A download of the list of drawing equipment needed to undertake the design exercises is provided at the start of Survey section of the course.

Target audience

• This course has been written for anyone who wants to learn the skills and techniques of how to design original and beautiful gardens.