If you are looking to start a professional career in garden and/or planting design, please visit the information about our One Year Professional Garden Design Diploma course on the website. We also offer a Three Day Gateway to Garden Design taster course, which gives an idea of what it's like to study on the one year course / to be a garden designer.
Our classroom based day courses as well as our online courses, can be studied in any order and they all complement each other.
We recommend starting with what interests you most, OR with what you feel you need the most work at / feel the least confident about.
The creative process in the sketchbook is the foundation of all design work, and if this is something you'd like more confidence in, then the Online Creative Planting Design course is a great place to start.
In terms of professional practice, it is more usual to start with garden design and once that overall plan is completed, to then move on to planting design. But if planting is what you love it is perfectly ok to work the other way around.
For a course specifically aimed at designing the whole of your own garden we recommend our Online Design Your Own Garden course.