A beginners guide to designing gardens and drawing plans

A beginners guide to designing gardens and drawing plans

This course is ideal if you want to learn how to create a well designed garden and show your friends or clients how it will look. At the end of this course you will be able to understand design principles and apply them to drawing up plans and sketches. 

Learn how to design gardens and easily draw up plans and sketches

Learn about garden design principles

Learn about garden user areas

Find out how to draw base plans to scale from site information

Find out how to draw up plans with plant and construction symbols 

Find out how to colour in plans easily

Learn how to do sketches from photos easily

Apply design principles to any garden that will work well and look good

This course can be used by beginners and can lead to work designing gardens. 

It is unique as it shows quick easy ways of designing gardens with hand drawn plans.

Overview  

This course offers you a easy, simple way to understand sound design principles as they apply to gardens. You will learn the design principles, and how to divide up your garden into user areas.

Once you have obtained the site information you can easily draw this up on a base plan. After obtaining the client wishes and working out the user areas, you can add in the gardens and construction areas using symbols. You can then colour in the plan and add wording. 

You will also learn how to do a quick sketch from a photo to show your client how the garden could look in 3D. 

Garden design and drawing garden plans & sketches

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What you will learn

• Understand design principles and draw concept plans, and do simple sketches

Rating: 3.75

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Jon Muller