Fundamentals of Garden Design

Fundamentals of Garden Design, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 77 lectures, based on 4164 reviews, and has 18856 subscribers.

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Title: Fundamentals of Garden Design

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 77

Number of Published Lectures: 77

Number of Curriculum Items: 77

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 77

Original Price: $49.99

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What You Will Learn

Students will learn how to prepare a conceptual landscape plan suitable for themselves or presentation

You will learn how to do a simple site survey of a property and plot it on paper

How to use different design approaches to give more interest and continuity to your designs

You will learn how the Planes of Enclosure can make your designs more interesting and dynamic

You will be shown how to color your plan for presentation and display

You will have access to bid sheets and examples of contracts for you to use in business and estimating

Who Should Attend

This course is for gardeners, landscape contractors, designers and students interested in improving their design capabilities. This course has been developed for those interested in learning landscape design including site surveys and basic differential elevation surveys.

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Target Audiences

This course is for gardeners, landscape contractors, designers and students interested in improving their design capabilities. This course has been developed for those interested in learning landscape design including site surveys and basic differential elevation surveys.

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This is a beginner/intermediate level course in landscape Architecture and Design.

Landscape design is more than selecting plants for a project, it is the integration of all the elements and spaces that affect our outdoor living environment.  In this course you will be introduced to the objectives and principles that are essential to developing a strong design solution for either yourself or for a paying client, all the while you’ll be introduced to new garden and design ideas to help grow your design company.  With lessons covering how to interview the client, design contracts, form composition and selecting a design approach this course is a comprehensive and in-depth journey into the world of truly creative landscape design.  

Because I have students taking this course from all over the world with a wide range of climates and plant palettes this is NOT a course on planting design.  The basic concepts of how plants can be used within the landscape are discussed, but individual plant species and their use or placement will not be addressed.

The practical skills of drafting to scale, and site surveys will be explained. Finally, how to take these skills, draw your garden design and create a conceptual garden plan for yourself, family or client will be covered in detail.

For those of you working in metric, you’ll want to jump straight down to Lecture 75 for a lesson on using the metric scale in design.

This is a course on garden design – not gardening.  It is also NOT  a course using computer aided design (CAD).  The instruction will be in using pen, ink and paper – what I believe is the starting point for all design even if you choose to use a computer program later on.  CAD is simply a tool, but if you do not know the basic principles and objectives of design, CAD won’t help you.  You’ll simply do poor designs faster!

The conceptual plan is the starting point for any design project, opening discussion and refining the plan before construction drawings are prepared and it is this approach to design that I will be explaining, demonstrating and clarifying for the student.

What you will get out of this course:

74 lectures walking you through the entire process of creating a conceptual garden plan including garden design basics

Approximately 7 hours of instruction

Lifetime access to the instructor for advice, plan critique, contract review and encouragement

Lifetime access to  the course and resources

30-day, money back guarantee

Certificate of Completion when you’ve finished the Course

Pure and practical advice

Personal guidance and mentoring from someone (me!) who has been designing and creating gardens for over 35 years

   

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Fundamentals of Garden Design

Chapter 2: The Client Brief

Lecture 1: Interviewing the client

Lecture 2: Interpret what Theyre Saying

Lecture 3: Your Design Portfolio

Lecture 4: The Design Bid Worksheet

Lecture 5: Design Contracts

Chapter 3: Surveying the Site

Lecture 1: Introduction to Site Surveying

Lecture 2: Steps in Mapping the Property

Lecture 3: Measuring the House

Lecture 4: Finding North

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 4: Landscape Drafting

Lecture 1: Drafting Equipment – know the tools

Lecture 2: Using the Drafting Compass

Lecture 3: Using the Drafting Triangle

Lecture 4: Using Circle Templates

Lecture 5: Using the Flexible Curve

Lecture 6: Using the Scale Rule

Lecture 7: Using the Drafting Lamp

Lecture 8: Using The Eraser Shield

Lecture 9: Using Technical Drawing Pens

Lecture 10: Cleaning Technical Pens

Lecture 11: The Portable Drafting board

Chapter 5: Drawing to Scale

Lecture 1: Squaring the Paper

Lecture 2: Select the Scale Value

Lecture 3: Plotting Your Survey

Lecture 4: Inking Your Plan

Lecture 5: Triangulation

Lecture 6: Summary

Chapter 6: Design Objectives

Lecture 1: Design Objectives and the 3 Planes of Enclosure

Lecture 2: Space Defined

Lecture 3: Designing on the Base Plane

Lecture 4: The Vertical and Overhead Planes

Lecture 5: Materials Affect Perception

Lecture 6: Summary

Chapter 7: Form Composition

Lecture 1: Introduction to Form Composition

Lecture 2: The Circle and Square in Landscape Design

Lecture 3: Examples of Form Composition in Design

Lecture 4: Summary

Chapter 8: Design Approach

Lecture 1: Introduction to Design Approach

Lecture 2: Radial Design

Lecture 3: Arc and Tangent Design

Lecture 4: Rectangular Design

Lecture 5: Rectangular-45 Design

Lecture 6: Curvilinear Design

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 9: Allocating Space

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Front Garden

Lecture 2: The Front Garden – A Case Study

Lecture 3: Introduction to the Back Garden

Lecture 4: Summary

Chapter 10: Design Principles

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Dominance in Garden Design

Lecture 3: Repetition in Garden Design

Lecture 4: Interconnection and the Unity of 3 in Garden Design

Lecture 5: Order

Lecture 6: Rhythm

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 11: The Conceptual Garden Plan

Lecture 1: The Conceptual Plan – Its Roots and Its Meanings

Lecture 2: The Title Block

Lecture 3: The Conceptual Planting Plan – Getting Started

Lecture 4: The Conceptual Planting Plan – Plant Graphics

Lecture 5: Case Study #1 Introduction

Lecture 6: Case Study #1 Developing the Concept Plan

Lecture 7: Case Study #1 – Developing the Concept Plan Continued

Lecture 8: Case Study #1 – Inking the Plan

Lecture 9: Case Study #2 Introduction

Lecture 10: Case Study #2 – Developing the Conceptual Plan

Lecture 11: Case Study #2 – Inking the Plan

Lecture 12: Coloring Your Plan – Introduction

Lecture 13: Coloring Your Plan – Getting Started

Lecture 14: Coloring Your Plan – Example

Lecture 15: The Concept Plan vs. The Working Plan

Chapter 12: Course Summary

Lecture 1: Course Wrap-Up

Chapter 13: Bonus Content

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture – Design Presentation Tips

Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture – Plan Developement

Lecture 3: Bonus lecture – Using the Metric Scale in Garden Design

Lecture 4: Drainage Design – An Overview

Lecture 5: Drainage Design – The Math

Instructors

Rob Littlepage
Landscape Architect & Educator

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2 stars: 99 votes

3 stars: 448 votes

4 stars: 1422 votes

5 stars: 2164 votes

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