Garden Design with John Brookes

Landscape & Garden Design Course with John Brookes

Overview

Course length: 4 weeks
Next start date: 3rd March
Course price: £120
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An Introduction and The First Steps to Designing Your Garden

This online garden design course is suitable for amateurs and professionals alike. In it, I give you my personal insight on how to design a garden with design rules applying to any country in the world and any size of garden (you’ll get personal tuition from me in the MyGardenSchool virtual classroom). With over 50 years design and teaching experience and over 30 books published in as many different languages, I draw on my extensive knowledge to combine clever and stylish design options with detailed information and practical advice.

Please join me so I can share with you, my design philosophy, never before explained or revealed in such detail.

Learning outcome: Having completed the course you will understand how to measure, plot and plan a new garden with insights and design secrets never before explained by one of the leading designers in the world.

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Course Content

Week 1: Garden Style and Surveying your Site. Understanding the proportions of your garden, making a site assessment, how to do a simple survey

Week 2: Design Secrets only the Pros Know. There is no way around this; I am going to have to talk ‘design’ for a moment. And why not? we all crave the designer kitchen, the designer bedroom en suite if I am to believe my tele – so why not the designer garden? I'll teach you the approach used by the professionals to achieve your designer garden

Week 3: Line Pattern & Shape. This lecture covers, A bit of design theory, Direction of Flow, The formal layout, An anticlockwise design, A clockwise design, Starting to evolve your own pattern, Using circles, The Garden Plan

Week 4: Turning Dreams into Reality. Implementing the rule of thirds, the design as you move away from the house, and finally the planting

Requirements

This courses suits amateurs and professionals alike. A one off opportunity to meet the legend himself.

Booking a Place

MyGardenSchool Gardening Courses Start on the First Saturday of Every Month. You can book your course up to two months in advance:

January Course: Starts Saturday January 7th

February Course: Starts Saturday February 4th

March Course: Starts Saturday March 3rd

April Course: Starts Saturday April 7th

May Course: Starts Saturday May 5th

Your tutor will make their video lectures available to you each Saturday morning for four weeks, and will support you throughout the course. Book now to secure a place!

Tutor

- John Brookes
  
  John Brookes has often been described as the world's most influential garden designer both because of gardens he has created for clients and his boo
  
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Books by tutor

- Well-Designed Garden
  
  The most authoritative and inspiring source of garden design knowledge, ideas and advice Author of Small Garden, John Brookes draws on 40 years of gardening expertise and shows you how to be creative in your garden.

- Small Garden
  
  From initial inspiration to final layout – create your own small garden with the help of gardening design expert John Brookes.

- John Brookes Garden Design (revised)
  
  In this expanded updated version of his classic book John Brookes adresses the latest trends in garden design as well as surveying new materials and techniques

- Room Outside: A New Approach to Garden Design
  
  This is a thoroughly revised and beautifully illustrated edition of the book that first made garden design accessible to everyone.

How to Design Your Own Garden, or become a Garden Designer - top garden design course

If you're looking to design your own garden, this is the best online garden design course you'll find - simply because of being able to get personal access to John Brookes, being one of the most acclaimed garden designers in the world. He will cover what to plant in your garden, how to design your garden, and take you through the first stepst to becoming a garden designer. Garden Design courses vary enormously, and this is one of the best distance learning garden design courses, simply because you benefit from a classroom experience as well. The end result will be a beautiful unique garden, with planting that flowers, and has seasonal interest. Horticture courses can sometimes be too plant focused, but this covers both the landscape design and the planting design to help you work towards your dream designer garden.

About John Brookes

John Brookes MBE is one of the most respected garden designers of this century. This is a chance to get his advice first hand. He has designed gardens for the rich and famous, has numerous gold medals from The Chelsea Flower Show, and has written dozens of gardening books which have sold millions of copies worldwide.