This fully online short course is a comprehensive introduction to planting design and shows you how to plan your garden, choose plants, work with growing conditions and create year-round interest.
The course is self-guided with tutor support through 10 units.
The course aim is to show amateur gardeners of all levels of experience how to introduce a design perspective to their planting selections.
We will describe the planting design process and take you through each step. We will look at how to organise the garden space, create a planting structure, design planting schemes and go about choosing plants for the design. We will explain how environmental conditions can affect design, explore some of the more specialised types of planting found in gardens and describe how to select plants to achieve year-round interest in the garden.
Designing for nature and for a changing climate are also now covered.