Landscaping Home Gardens

Designing home gardens

• Learn how to plan, lay out and construct your own home garden.
  
• Develop garden design skills for all types of gardens - for play, work or display.
  
• Gain the knowledge and skills in garden design and maintenance to help start a career in home landscaping.
  

Lesson Structure

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Designing Gardens - the basics of design concepts through to understanding how to use them.
2. Styles of Gardens - formal, informal, natural, and other themes.
3. Drawing Plans ‑Designing Gardens - learn how to draw basic landscape features and garden designs.
4. Understanding Soils - clays, loams, sands - how to identify them and treat them for better plant growth.
5. Basic Landscape Construction - what is involved to build basic structures like steps, walls, paths, etc.
6. Weeds & Pests - how to identify and treat garden weeds and pests.
7. Planting and Pruning - techniques to plant, prune and care for garden plants.
8. Lawns, paving and other surfacing - care for various surfaces
9. Garden Features - how to select and use garden features in a landscape.
10. Developing "YOUR" Garden - Special Project

Aims

• Understand the design procedure and the principles of landscape design
  • Develop knowledge of garden styles through history and apply this to your own designs
  • Develop skills in graphical techniques for plan drawing
  • Develop knowledge of soil properties and their relevance to home horticulture
  • Understand the principles and practices of basic landscape construction
  • Develop knowledge of pests and weeds, and their management in home horticulture
  • Develop skills in planting and pruning for home gardens
  • Develop knowledge of lawns and surfaces appropriate to home landscaping
  • Develop knowledge of landscape furnishings and other features appropriate for home gardens
  • Utilise skills developed during this course to develop a landscape design for a home garden.

Take this course to:

• Learn to design, construct and develop your own garden
  
• Take the first step to a new business career in home landscaping
  
• Improve the value of your own property with your own exclusive landscape design
  
• Learn how to look after and maintain a garden