Small Garden Low Maintenance Design
Our Garden Design & Maintenance course is tailored to help you master the art of creating small garden low maintenance designs that are both beautiful and functional. You’ll start with the basics of gardening, exploring soil types, plant planning, and purchasing strategies. The course guides you through an effective garden planning process, from initial consultations and site surveys to maintenance planning and final project completion.
Discover various garden design styles and learn how to draw inspiration, create mood boards, and implement your designs effectively. You’ll understand site surveys, approvals, and measuring techniques, along with the benefits of project planning and essential graphic skills for drawing plans.
Learn to identify high-maintenance areas within gardens and explore options for low-maintenance planning. Sustainability is a key focus, covering plant selection, water conservation, and recycling methods. You’ll also gain insight into essential tools, common garden pests, and integrated pest management strategies.
The course concludes with practical knowledge for starting your own gardening business, including marketing, health and safety, insurance, and record keeping. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to create stunning, low-maintenance gardens and thrive in the gardening industry.
What You Will Learn
The twenty-nine modules included in this Online Course Garden Design and Maintenance Diploma are brimming with information to help you jump start your gardening career and turn your hobby and passion into a money-making opportunity.
- Learn the basics of gardening from the various soil types to plant planning and purchasing.
- Identify an effective garden planning process from the initial consultation with the client through to site surveys, maintenance planning, to the final and completed project.
- Know different garden design styles. Learn how to gain inspiration throughout the day, how to design a mood board and how to implement your design effectively for the best results.
- Understand site surveys, approvals and measuring techniques. Learn how to use survey maps, photographic records and what surveys and appraisals you are going to need before you begin.
- Learn the benefits of project planning.
- Know the five forms that should be included in all your client packs.
- Learn more about drawing a plan and essential graphic skills.
- Know the various surfaces and materials, understand what hard landscaping is and how to deal with it.
- Know the secrets of great soil.
- Understand the importance of the right plan selection and care. This includes use of colours to make an impact.
- Gain valuable plant knowledge that you can use daily to make the best choices based on your design, garden location and finish.
- Learn how to identify high maintenance areas within any garden. Know the different options when it comes to low maintenance planning.
- Learn the importance of sustainability. Know what plants to use, about water conservation and how to recycle and reuse when working in any garden.
- Learn essential tips for reducing maintenance in difficult to manage and overgrown gardens.
- Know what equipment you are going to need, what equipment you will need for certain jobs and what each item is capable of.
- Get a good understanding of the most common garden pests, natural and chemical pesticides, integrated pest management and how to come up with a pest management plan that will work.
- Identify effective solutions for difficult gardens from adding container plants to adding additional irrigation and more.
- Know what to plan in a herb and vegetable garden.
- Know what you need to start your own gardening business to achieve success.
- Learn more about marketing your business, health and safety in the workplace, insurance, tax and record keeping, just to name a few of the points covered in this industry recognised course.
- Gain valuable insight into raising flower beds, laying patios, decking, fencing, know more about artificial grass, how to lay lawn and how to build a fish pond.
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Benefits of the Garden Design and Maintenance Diploma
This course is designed to provide you with a wide range of benefits, including:
- An easy to understand syllabus that you can learn at home and in your own time.
- Improve your career prospects with an industry recognised diploma.
- Learn using any device at any time.
- Enjoy ongoing support during your studies.
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How long will I have access to the course material?
Typically, you will have access to the course material for Life-time except for a few that have one year access validity. Please refer to the course description or contact us for more information.
Will I receive a certificate upon completion of the course?
Yes, upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion. The certificate will indicate that you have successfully completed the course.
Are there any requirements to take the course?
There are no formal requirements for taking our courses.Any interested individual can take them
Is there a time limit for completing the course?
Typically, there is no time limit for completing the course. All our courses are completely self-paced allowing you to study at your own pace.
Is there a test at the end of the course?
Yes you need to take a simple assessment at the end of the course to avail the completion certificate
What happens if I fail the test?
We can reset the test any number of times you want.
Is there a sample Certificate to preview?
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