Free Garden Design Course - to help you design your own garden

 

Our free garden design course has been developed by the GardenAdvice advisors to help you design your own garden at home with the help and assistance of one of our expert garden designers. The course is aimed at all gardeners from novice the the more experienced. To complete the course you do not need any plant knowledge, landscape knowledge or drawing skills.

 

How The Course Works

Using the Internet, digital cameras and the telephone, the course has been designed to enable you to team up with one of GardenAdvice.co.uk expert garden designers to help you through every stage, step by step.

 

Once you have signed up you will be appointed a designer on the GardenAdvice.co.uk team to work with you on your garden design. Together by using the course materials sent to you over the Internet you will develop your own design with our help and guidance.

The course has been designed to take you through every stage from concept to construction at your own pace. On the course you will be provided with the following.

• Your own GardenAdvice online Garden Designer to assist you
• A number of "How to" guides on CD-ROM or online video Click here
• Course notes
• A Soil Testing kits
• Free access to the genesis4 online sotware with is part of the MyGardenTeam service for 30 days. This includes online galleries
• for your pictures and plans plus software to help create a schedule
• or your garden design.

Stages on the course include the following

• Creating a concept for your new garden.
• Creating a site plan
• Choosing a Style - Setting the scale - creating a concept plan.
• Design Problems - Hard landscaping elements
• Planting Designs - Finishing touches

The first part of the course takes you through the concept for your new garden and producing site plans.

click here to download part one garden design course
windows media file 45MB file broadband required
20 mins to download

 

click here to download part one garden design course
quicktime file 45MB file broadband required
20 mins to download

 

Your appointed GardenAdvice.co.uk designer will be able to help and advise you every step of the way over the Internet and by telephone. For advice over the telephone you will need to make an appointment using our Internet based telephone appointment system

The course can be completed at your own speed taking from a week to three months.

To sign up for the course click here