Discover the variety of garden design styles and create a winning landscape for your next project. Whether you’re looking to create a landscape garden for yourself or a client, this course is ideal professional development for you.
Certificate of Landscaping Styles is an online professional development course that will help you choose the right garden style for your next landscaping project.
In this landscape garden styles course, you will explore how to create formal and informal garden styles, how colour and texture can influence ambience, the role of water in design and how history has influenced design trends.
You’ll also learn how to take a creative approach to your designs and incorporate unique elements to offer a diverse range of options to suit the location of your next landscape project.
On completion of this course, you will feel confident to take risks with your landscape design projects to set yourself apart from the competition.
Course Structure
Unit - Landscaping III Landscaping Styles
Unit 1 – Creating the Mood
- Simple and complex gardens
- Movement in the garden
- Managing light and shade
- Increasing light to your garden
- Reducing the amount of light received
- Working with shade
- Examples of plants which thrive in shaded conditions
- Garden lighting and mood
- What do you want in a garden
- Personality and the garden
- What is scale?
- Garden features for small gardens
- Framing the view
- Colour and the garden
- Using plants for colour and coloured pots
- Use of coloured statuary
- Stone, reconstituted stone, plaster, clay and cement statuary
- Bronze, iron and other metal statuary
- The impact of house colour on the garden
- Other coloured surfaces
- Coloured shade-cloth, plastics & shade wings
- Psychological effects of different colours
- Water and colour in the garden
- Rules for using colour in gardens
- Hot and cold colours in the garden
- Using hot coloured plants
- Cool gardens
- Reasons gardens become too hot
- Making the garden cooler
- Using blue in the garden
- Garden design for winter warmth and light
- Site analysis
- Step by step –creating the concept (macro design)
- Step by step –how to design a garden room (micro design)
- Garden room components – what to put in your garden room
Unit 2 – Historic Gardens
- Roman gardens
- Chinese gardens
- Medieval gardens
- Famous garden designers
- Historical considerations
- Other types of gardens
- Rose gardens
- Australian gardens
- Cottage garden designs and features
- Designing a cottage garden
- Plants to use in a cottage garden
- Popular features of gardens in 1901
- Popular plants from 100 years ago
- Edwardian style gardens and features
Unit 3 – Formal Gardens
- What is a formal garden
- Design elements of formal gardens
- Where to put a formal garden bed
- Creating a formal garden
- Types of formal gardens
- Simple formal gardens
- Keep the main planting simple
- Informality in the formal garden
- Designing a formal garden
- Ideas for eye-catching features
- Plants for formal gardens
- Traditional ornaments for formal gardens
- Sundials, weathervanes, bird baths
- Traditional garden furniture
- Creating a formal courtyard
Unit 4 – Oriental Gardens
- Chinese gardens
- Japanese gardens
- Types and features of Japanese gardens
- Styles of bonsai
- Traditional oriental garden plants
- Water in the oriental garden
- Ornamental grasses
- Grasses are diverse
- Ways to use grasses in a garden
Unit 5 – Middle Eastern and Spanish Influences
- Features of Moorish gardens
- Sense of enclosure
- Symmetry and water
- Plants and ornamentation
- Seating and colours
- Mexican style
- How Mexican gardens evolved
- Mexican planting schemes
- Using coloured gravel
- Low maintenance gravel
Unit 6 – Mediterranean Gardens
- Features of Mediterranean gardens
- Regional differences
- Colours
- Built landscape
- Ceramic and coloured pots
- Which colour for which effect
- Types of containers
- Garden art: painting
- Which surfaces to paint
- The surroundings
- Types of paint
- Veranda gardens
- Design of new verandas
- Roofing for verandas
- Making the most of a small space
- Microclimates
- Maintenance of plants on verandas
Unit 7 – Coastal Gardens
- Features of coastal gardens
- Temperature and humidity
- Wind and windbreaks
- Salt and soil
- Coastal plants
- Strategies for growing coastal plants
- Irrigating coastal gardens
- Trees
- Shade trees
- Features of shade trees
Unit 8 – Modern Gardens
- Technology in the garden
- Water features
- Music systems
- Maintenance
- Architecture
- Courtyards
- Making a small courtyard look bigger
- Discord in a garden
- Inner city gardens
- City plants
- Types of inner-city gardens
- Feature trends
Unit 9 – Eclectic Gardens
- Creating an eclectic garden
- Garden ornaments
- Plants for the eclectic garden
- Living art
- Topiary
- Plants for topiary
- Standards
- Hedges
- Tapestry hedges
- Mazes
- Pleaching
- Miniature/table top gardens
- Trough gardens
- Using junk in living gardens
- Pebble gardens
- Pebbles in the eclectic landscape
- Art gardens
- Public gardens
- Huntington botanic garden and library
Study Hours
Estimated duration 50 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment
Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.
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Graduation
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- Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
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- Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
- High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
- All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
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- We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
- Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.
Are there any entry requirements or pre-requisites?
There are no course or subject pre-requisites for entry into our programs. However, our professional development programs are generally intended for people over the age of 18. In some circumstances, enrolments from younger people may be considered. Please complete the AOC Parent Guardian Consent Form prior to enrolling and submit here.
Are there any computer requirements?
To study online with Australian Online Courses you will need a computer (desktop PC/laptop) running a current/updated operating system with reliable high-speed internet access. You will need to use the Google Chrome browser to access your course.
When can I start this course?
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How is this course delivered?
This course is delivered online via our easy-to-navigate Learning Management System (LMS), where you will discover interactive online learning/written content, resources and assessment.
Do I need to attend classes or undertake any work placements?
No. All courses are delivered online via our LMS and there are no work placement requirements in this course.
What support can I expect from Australian Online Courses?
Unlimited tutor support is available throughout your studies via email only during business hours Monday to Friday. Our Administrative team are available Monday to Friday via email, live chat and telephone.
I am an international student. Can I enrol into this course?
Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.
Career Pathways
Future growth
Strong
Unemployment
Low
Professional Development for:
- Gardeners
- Landscapers
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