Design & Create your Dream Country Garden

Learn how to create and design a country garden with world-class garden designers Tom Stuart-Smith and Guy Petheram. Learn the philosophy, technique and skill behind one of the greatest minds in garden design. If you are taking on your own landscape design project and need some inspiration from a world class designer, this is the course for you! During this course, you will learn the core principles of garden design from Tom’s work, and will learn how you can apply these to your own designs in a way which realises your artistic ambitions. You will explore Tom’s own design philosophy, and ways that his own country garden reflects the history and culture of its surroundings in its planting schemes and design. The overall ‘mood’ of your garden is the most important thing to have in mind when designing your plans, and this should be at the forefront of any decision you make in the garden. You will consider what plants or features you can source locally, and how maintenance, feature choice, structure and soil type all have a part to play in bringing your plan to life. You'll learn: core garden design principles how to apply designs to suit your gardening style and location reflecting the local culture and history in your designs materials and features to use in your designs zoning your garden and using different planting in different areas behind the scenes on landscape design projects - from his own garden to Chatsworth and gardens in Spain The course includes: 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Tom Stuart-Smith lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like downloadable lesson notes practical country garden design projects (with feedback available from Guy Petheram) access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas Time to complete the country garden course: Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 10 hours 5 minutes to complete including: Video lessons: 2 hours 5 minutes in total Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson Your garden designing projects: at least 1 hour per lesson Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson You'll need: You don't need any special equipment, but you will be planning your own garden, choosing features and materials. The course is suitable for gardeners at all levels - from new gardeners to professionals who want to learn from an expert landscape designer. Ready to get started? Just add the course to your basket above. If you know someone who'd love this course then give it as a gift - just tick "This is a gift" at the checkout. Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.