LANDSCAPING I BHT109

START LEARNING GARDEN LANDSCAPING

At the end of this 100 course you will be able to design a garden, and will have a foundation for further studies in specific areas of landscape design, development or management. Learn the principles that underpin all design.

See how garden styles have evolved over the centuries, and broaden your understanding of how to use different garden components to create varying affects.

• Some people who work in garden centres have done this chourse. Nurserymen value sales staff who can design a garden; as such staff can better advise customers, and perhaps offer an additional saleable service.
• Some garden contractors have chosen this course so they can offer an additional service to complement existing service
• Some people who work in an architects office, engineering or town planning department or property development company choose this course so they can create necesry landscape plans in house, rather than out sourcing the work.
• Some landscape contractors have done this course to enable them to present ideas better to clients and prepare proper contract documentation for jobs they undertake
• Some people have pursued this course as a step toward setting up a small part time business (either to supplementother work; or to take a step toward moving onto a new career path).

Duration: 100 hours

COURSE STRUCTURE

The ten lessons are as follows:

1. Basic Design Procedure A

• Scope of Landscaping
• Dynamic Nature of Gardens
• Plant Naming
• Plant Identification and Selection
• Botanical Families; a basis for identification
• Principles of Landscaping
• Design Elements
• Design Effects
• Climate, Microclimate and Aspect
• Collecting pre-planning information

2. History of Gardening

• Formal Gardens
• Informal Gardens
• Natural Gardens
• Cottage Gardens
• Other garden styles and themes, oriental, mediterranean, etc
• Potted History of Gardens: Roman, Chinese, Dark Ages, Le Notre, Brown, Jeckyll, etc

3. Draughting and Contracting

• Concept Plans
• Scale Drawing
• Presentation Plan
• Computer Aided Design
• Drawing techniques (Graphics)
• Design Procedure
• Specifications and Contracts

4. Basic Landscape Construction

• Drainage and Erosion
• Gradients
• Walling
• Rockeries
• Steps
• Creating Mounds
• Earth Shaping
• Playstructures
• Gravel and Paths

5. Surfacings

• Gradients
• Surfacings
• Gravel
• Soft Surfacing
• Grass
• Concrete
• Asphalt
• Timber
• Paving
• Rubbers and Textiles
• Substrates
• Performance Considerations
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6. Furnishings and Features

• Criteria for selecting Structural Components
• Garden Furniture and Garden Rooms
• Using Furniture in the Garden
• Outdoor Tables and Chairs
• Garden Art; types, selection, use
• Lighting
• Design considerations for Play Structures
• Water Displays and Fountains
• Skate Facilities

7. Park Design A

• Park Components
• Ornaments
• Walls, Fences and Windbreaks
• Enclosed Gardens
• Gates and Gateways
• Windbreaks
• Recreational Landscaping
• Criteria for Public Outdoor Space Design
• Why Parks are Under used
• Types of Playgrounds
• Making Community Participation Work

8. Home Garden Design

• Components of a Home Garden
• Where Garden Meets House
• Bringing the Outside In
• Buildings in a Home Garden
• Courtyards

9. Design Procedure B

• The Design Process
• Design Elements
• Components of a Recreational Landscape
• Designing Narrow Gardens
• Water Garden Design
• Water Effects: sound, reflection, movement, light, cooling
• Using Water Plants
• Formal and Informal Pools

10. Park Design B

• Creating Trails
• Planning a Trail
• Types of Trails: Fitness, Nature, Sensory, Cryptic Puzzle, etc
• Sporting Facilities
• Outdoor Courts
• Fun and Fitness Trails
• Motor Vehicles in Parks
• Plus A Special Assignment - comprehensive landscape

AIMS

• Create visual effects through the use of different landscape design concepts.
• Determine pre-planning information required to prepare a landscape design.
• Determine an appropriate garden style for a landscape, to satisfy specifications for a design project.
• Illustrate a landscape design through a plan, using legible graphic skills.
• Determine different hard landscape features, including earthworks, surface treatments and furniture, to incorporate in a landscape.
• Prepare planting designs for different landscapes.
• Design different types of landscapes, including domestic gardens and public parks

WHAT IS LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Landscape Design is a multifaceted skill. It allows you to take a vision or "feeling" and transform it into a workable plan. It isn't just making a place look nice, nor mass planting, but is also about suiting the landscape to the climate, land and setting that you have to work with. An understanding of plants, soils, timbers, climate, and other landscape materials are pivotal to the success of a good landscape design.

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS

Here are just some of the things you may be doing:

• Explain the complete range of principles, elements and concepts used in landscape design.
• Visit and analyse a broad range of landscape styles, themes and components.
• Perform methods utilised to develop concepts and to create affects.
• Identify, record and utilise pre-planning information for the purpose of design development, and to use a checklist as a guide for surveying a site for a proposed design.
• Perform site survey and client interview with the site owner/manager.
• Explain the significance of effective client liaison, in a specific landscape job.
• -Identify historical influences on landscaping in your locality.
• Explain the influence on modern garden design, of work by three garden designers who have been prominent in world garden history.
• Develop and compare the appropriateness of three design options for one specific landscape project.
• Draw an extensive range of different landscape symbols on paper, covering soft and hard landscape features.
• Transpose two different landscape drawings, reducing the scale by a specified amount.
• Draw a plan for a landscape, using legible graphic techniques.
• Determine site preparations required for a specified landscape site, including:

• clearing/cleaning
• earthworks.

• Explain the legal requirements for cleaning up after a job in your locality.
• Determine suitable timbers for construction of four different types of garden structures.
• Compare the suitability of different materials for surfacing paths, including:

• Asphalt
• Concrete
• Local gravels
• Local mulches
• Timber
• Ceramics.

• Collect, catalogue and determine appropriate use for different items of garden furniture.
• Design a paved area for a garden surveyed, including: scale drawings and construction instructions.
• Prepare a resource directory/collection of different plants incorporating:

• Illustrations of plant, Scientific and common plant names & Cultural details
• How to use each of these plants in different landscape situations uses.

• Evaluate established landscapes based in:

• Costs
• Maintenance
• Function
• Aesthetics

• Develop detailed planting designs, including plant lists, for three landscape plans, to satisfy given job specifications.
• Analyse and compare the landscape designs of numerous selected homes and public parks.
• Develop and prepare concept plans for landscape areas such as:

• Outdoor living area
• Kitchen garden
• Courtyard
• Childrens playground
• Entry to home
• Neighbourhood park

• Draft a series of conceptual plans, showing stages in the design of a home garden you surveyed.
• Prepare a professional standard landscape design for a client in your, including:

• A landscape plan drawn on tracing paper.
• Materials specifications, including types and quantities.
• Budget details.