Garden Design for Beginners

Start date: 05 June 2025
Day: Thursday
Course length: 5 Week Course
Time: 14:00 to 16:00

Course code: BM02

Full fee: £100.00 | Over 65s: £90.00 | Benefit: £80.00

Tutor: Alicia Salvage


Courses description

This beginners garden design course offers an opportunity to understand the basic process of designing a garden using an area outside the Folkhouse.

Week one you will learn about brief writing and zoning diagrams. Both things are essential for understanding what elements you want in the garden and where these elements should go.

Week two you will explore key design principles, a handful of garden styles and ways in which you can communicate your design, using plans perspectives, sections and inspiration palettes.

Week three you will learn how to survey an area outside the Folkhouse. Using simple measuring techniques you will create a to scale birds eye view of the area, including key elements such as soil type, aspect, microclimate, important views and existing plants and trees.

Week four you will create your garden concept. Tracing zoning diagrams on top of your survey and building on top of this to make a visually attractive plan that communicates your design.

Week five explores what materials and plants you would like to use in your garden. You will produce a materials plan that shows which materials go where and a planting plan and palette. We will also look at how to order your plants from a nursery and where you could go locally to get plants.

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