Overview
Native or indigenous flora and plants are frequently used in natural garden design but others are used also. A natural design should rarely have any straight lines – it should have curves throughout rather than be angular. You are trying to create the affect of realism – natural rather than planned. This online Natural Garden Design course from Warnborough College will develop your knowledge of how the natural environment works.
Eight lessons cover the concept of natural garden design including how to produce concept and detailed plans, plus incorporate plants and landscape features into various types of natural gardens (eg. woodland gardens, desert gardens, wild gardens, indigenous plant gardens, etc).
Course Aims
- Explain the historical development of natural garden design, in your locality.
- Analyse plant inter-relationships within a specific natural environment (e.g. an area of bushland).
- Analyse the design of three natural gardens, in an essay illustrated with photographs or sketches.
- Explain, using illustrations, concepts of landscape design, showing their relevance to natural garden design, including: *Unity *Balance *Proportion *Harmony *Contrast *Rhythm *Line *Form *Mass *Space *Texture *Colour *Tone.
- Develop three alternative natural garden concept plans for the same specified site.
- Collect pre-planning information for a site for a proposed natural garden, by conducting a site survey, and interviewing a prospective client.
- Explain, through a sequence of illustrations, a logical process of developing a design for a natural garden, on a specific site surveyed by you.
- Prepare concept plans for two small natural gardens, including: *A rainforest garden *A sclerophyll garden.
- List fifty different plants suitable for use in a natural garden design, of a specific style on a specified site, in your locality.
- Explain compatibility considerations, when selecting different plants to include in the same natural garden design.
- Develop a nursery customer information sheet, to provide guidelines for planting design of a natural garden.
- Prepare a plant collection of fifty relevant plants, which includes: *A photo, drawing or pressed specimen of each plant *Plant names (scientific and common) *Cultural details *Uses/applications in garden design.
- Prepare planting designs for three different styles of low maintenance garden beds, between 30 and 60 square meters each in size, and using only Australian Native plants.
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- History of Natural Gardens.
- Developing Concept Plans.
- Plants for Natural Gardens.
- Planting Design in Natural Gardens.
- Natural Garden Features.
- Natural Gardens Today.
- Bringing It All Together.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Design Horticulture and Crop Science Botany View 110 other Short Courses in Botany in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
Tuition Fee
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International
355 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 355 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
355 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 355 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.