Learning with Experts
Garden Design Diploma
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Course overview
Do you want to become a garden designer or design your own garden?
The Garden Design Diploma is a collection of garden design courses which will teach you a complete range of garden design skills taught by some of the biggest names in gardening and horticulture.
Tutors include Chris Beardshaw, Piet Oudolf, Dr Noel Kingsbury, Tom Stuart-Smith, Annie Guilfoyle, and Andy McIndoe.
You'll learn how to design a garden, the principles of good garden design, the history of garden design, how to create a garden for all seasons, planting with grasses, perennials, shrubs and trees and more garden design courses.
Choose Expert option and our Garden Design Diploma tutors will give you personal feedback on your projects.
You'll learn:This collection of garden design courses is suitable for garden design students of all levels - whether you are already in the horticultural industry, a professional gardener, designing your own garden or planning a career in garden design. It will broaden your horticultural knowledge, and inspire your designs.
Read about student and tutor experiences on the Garden Design Diploma in The English Garden Magazine
Why choose Learning with Experts' Garden Design courses?You'll be taught garden design by some of the world's best garden designers and leading experts. The opportunity to have Chris Beardshaw, Dr Noel Kingsbury, Neill Ludmon and Annie Guilfoyle reviewing your garden design plans is unique – and will give you a huge advantage as a newly qualified garden designer.
Our students love the practical elements of our courses that give them real-world insights into how they can succeed in garden design. Read about Ane's student experience on the Garden Design Diploma
Many of our students have gone on to make a hobby into a profession and now have careers in gardening or garden design all over the world.
How are the garden design courses taught?The course is taught in our friendly and private online classroom, where you will get to know your tutor and classmates. Bounce ideas off each other, compare designs and planting plans, and discuss gardening and design challenges.
Can you take the garden design courses in any order?You can take the courses in any order - but we recommend starting with Introduction to Garden Design.
Buying for your gardening business or employees?Contact us for VAT invoices or buying multiple courses (click the speech bubble in the bottom left).
More Garden Design course questions?Just click the orange speech bubble in the bottom right of your screen to ask us about garden design courses - we'd love to hear from you!
Ready to get started?Scroll up and 'Add to basket'. Choose the Expert option for personal feedback on your garden design projects from the tutors.
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Choose how you want to learn
Expert-level
Develop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition:
- Start the course whenever you like
- Tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- Certificate of completion and CPD learning hours
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- Lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
Peer-level
Get the most from shared knowledge and community study:
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 4 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
Why choose Learning with Experts?
Frequently asked questions
What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT options?
At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:
- Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
- Downloadable lesson notes
- Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
- Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom
If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:
- Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
- Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
- Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?
Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.
You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.
This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?
You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.
Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
How often can I speak with the Expert?
If you opt for the Expert version of your course, the time you have to interact with your tutor is limited to course length. You will have one week per lesson to chat to your tutor and to have your assignments marked, and during this period you can ask them as many questions as you would like.
To find out the length of each course, head to the product page and look at the Course outline to see how many lessons it contains. e.g. a four lesson course assumes that you will have completed the assignments within four weeks.
Your tutor interaction period will start as soon as you enter the classroom. If you find that you are struggling to complete the assignments in the allocated time or you wish to put this function on hold, just get in contact with one of the team via the support button and we will help you out.
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