Landscaping I

Overview

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.

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.

Aims of the Landscaping I course from Warnborough College

• 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 whohave 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

• 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

• 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.