The components used in a landscape design have a number of qualities or characteristics sometimes referred to as design elements such as:
- Line
- Colour
- Texture
- Mass
- Tone
Learn how to choose the most appropriate garden design elements to improve your skills to design gardens.
COURSE CONTENT:
LESSON 1: SURFACING IDEAS
- Soft materials
- Hard surfaces
- Segmented or modular paving
- Unsegmented or continuous paving
- Coloured pebbles & gravel
- Why pave an area?
- Where to pave & how much
- Choosing the right paving
- Some golden rules
- Creating special effects with paving
- Bringing new life to old paving
- Paving maintenance
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 2: GARDEN ARCHES, PERGOLAS & PAVILIONS
- Choosing the right arch
- Maintenance of metal arches
- Maintenance of timber arches
- Pergolas
- Building a pergola
- Living in a garden pavilion
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 3: DEALING WITH CONFINED SPACES
- Courtyards
- Narrow gardens
- Plants for narrow gardens
- Verandas
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 4: WATER GARDENS
- Water in the landscape
- Water effects
- Construction
- Water pumps
- Edges of water features
- Keeping the water clean
- Oxygenating plants
- Creating a waterfall
- Types of waterfall
- Fencing/safety of water features
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 5: USING PLANTS IN THE GARDEN
- The garden bed
- Plants for your garden
- Plants for different uses
- Plants to avoid
- Review what you have been learning
- Final assessment
Course Features:
- Enrol any time.
- Start studying immediately or later (as you wish)
- Work through at your own pace.
- Help desk - contact via email any time
- Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish; and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
- At the end of the whole course, you are presented with a major automated examination which can be attempted online, anywhere, any time.
- If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
