Landscaping Courses

Learn to Create Healthy Landscapes

Develop Your Capacity for Garden Design

The concept of a cottage garden has developed over the years, and today has come to a point which is not easy to give a clear definition to.  Your idea of a cottage garden might be different to someone else's idea.  This does not mean that one of you has the wrong definition.  Both concepts can be right, even though they are not the same.

Learn to design a cottage garden, applying broad concepts and principles loosely or rigidly to create a landscape sympathetic to a period in history or style of architecture. This course involves using heritage or old-world plants and features. 

Study Green Walls and Roofs course online.

Learn to develop appropriate and functional roof and vertical gardens, for residential, commercial and public landscapes.

Find out How to Build Landscapes and Gardens

Landscape construction is something which all landscapers should be familiar with, even if they are more focussed on soft landscaping. Construction skills are not only necessary in building hard landscape features, but also in repairing and restoring existing features.

This course develops your knowledge of how to construct or build a landscape - as distinct from designing a landscape. Learn to construct or build a garden the "right" way. This course provides a good grounding for someone entering the landscape industry.

The quintessential introduction to landscaping - Learn online

• Learn the principles that underpin all design.
• See how garden styles have evolved over the centuries
• Broaden your understanding of how to use different garden components to create varying effects.

Improve your Landscaping Skills and Knowledge

For a garden to be good it needs well nourished soil and healthy plants. However a great garden comprises many other components that include furnishings, buildings, water features, fences, drainage and irrigation systems, paths, driveways, entertainment and other outdoor living areas.

Learn to design and build such things as walls, rockeries, steps, ponds, and paving; and you develop skills to create specific effects in a garden. It is equally suited to those already working or looking to work in the industry, or enthusiastic gardeners with good basic landscaping knowledge.

Nurture Your Garden Design Skills

Learn to apply the principles, design features and elements that make up many types and styles of gardens. This is an outstanding course for even experienced landscape designers, developing skills in developing everything from a formal to an eclectic garden, and a Mediterranean to an Oriental landscape. 

Designing Natural Gardens - A useful course for gardeners and amateurs who want to bring nature back into the garden.

A natural garden is one that appears to be a relatively natural occurrence: not contrived or planned by man, and not maintained with any substantial input by man. Although natural gardens may, in fact, be planned, and may require routine maintenance; it is just these things are not obvious.

Learn to Choose the Best Plants for the Job

Choosing the right plants for the right purpose is often the difference between a good garden designer and a not so good one. In order to do this effectively gardeners and landscapers have to have knowledge of how different elements of the environment impact upon plant growth, and particular types of plants.

This course aims to provide you with a firm basis for the selection, establishment and maintenance of a range of commonly used garden plants. Learn about all the different groups of plants and the key factors which influence their growth and how they can be used in the landscape.

Learn to design playgrounds

Develop a sound understanding of the design and construction of small community parks and playgrounds.  A valuable course for parks managers or designers, .the course covers playground philosophy, design of play structures (for function and safety), materials selection, community participation and park design.

Learn to Rehabilitate Old Ornamental Gardens

Study this course to gain the skills and knowledge required to master garden renovation. Learn how to measure up a site, assess its current plants and hard landscape features, and decide what should be retained. Find out how to plan a restoration project and conduct risk assessments.

Learn to design and construct beautiful Water Gardens with this short distance learning course.