Professional Landscape & garden Design

Professional Landscape & Garden Design

Successful landscape and garden design work requires imagination. flair and creativity together with an understanding and appreciation of several quite distinct skills. It is unusual to find a person with all the necessary knowledge, skills, aptitude, creativity and imagination to be competent in all the subject areas involved and it is for this reason that clearly defined, but overlapping, divisions are so evident within the profession.

Because of the range and interdependence of the skills and knowledge required within the various areas, landscape and garden design, as a subject, presents considerable difficulties to tutors and course authors, and it is perhaps for this reason that we are one of the very few colleges that are able to offer comprehensive home study courses covering all aspects of the subject. The main prerequisites for successful garden design include a sound understanding of horticulture (the first and most important element), design principles and practice, hard landscaping and construction and, of course, business.

The IHRS Professional Garden Design group currently comprises two core courses:

Garden Design - An Introduction to Garden Design

Planting Design - An Introduction to Garden Design

The pictures below show BBC presenters, the Principal, students and staff in the IHRS show garden
‘Jungle Chic’ which, following an invitation from the RHS to enter, was designed and constructed by a group of our Garden Design students and staff at BBC “Gardeners’ World Live” 2004.

The garden was awarded a prestigious RHS GOLD MEDAL and was featured on BBC2 Gardeners’ World. Understandably, both students and staff were delighted.

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