Garden Design Course

The Garden Design - Level 3 Course can help students to learn the principles of design in horticulture, and gain an excellent knowledge and experience of using plants and garden features.

This home study course is designed in easy to follow units, with set exercises and assignments along the way to ensure you understand the areas covered.

Students will have access to an experienced personal tutor by email who holds a degree in Botany (BSc Hons).

The course covers the following units:

• Unit One - Garden Design & You
• Unit Two - What Good Design Achieves
• Unit Three - Starting to Design
• Unit Four - The Importance of Soils & Sites
• Unit Five - Starting Real Design Work
• Unit Six - Planning
• Unit Seven - Designing for Interest
• Unit Eight - Water in the Garden
• Unit Nine - Children & Pets
• Unit Ten - Gardening for Users with Disabilities, the Elderly and Garden Safety
• Unit Eleven - Upkeep & Maintenance
• Unit Twelve - Structures in the Garden
• Unit Thirteen - Marketing Your Garden Design Business
• Unit Fourteen - Tricks of the Trade

On successful completion of this course, students will receive an accredited certificate of completion from ABC Awards.

Prerequisites

There are no particular entry requirements.

Course Duration & Support

Students may register at any time and have a full year to complete their studies. You also have access to a personal tutor by mail or email for a 12 month period. Course extensions can be purchased if you do not complete this course within the 12 month period. As the course is the self study you can complete in as little or as long a time as you prefer.

Assessment

You will be assessed on coursework which is detailed in the course materials. There are 3 tutors marked assignments and many additional exercises to be completed. Your work can be sent back to your course tutor by email or by post.

Distance Learning Courses Limited (t/a Distance Learning Centre) is a leading provider of distance learning/home study/Open Learning courses and a respected course developer. As well as developing our own course materials we are also agents for many other top distance learning providers and currently offer over 250 distance learning courses through the Distance Learning Centre website and we are also an authorised partner for distributing the official CIW Self Study Kits.

I am Michael Verinder, the managing director of Distance Learning Courses Limited and I have been developing and delivering distance learning courses for over 20 years. Distance Learning Courses Limited is a family based business and my involvement in this area started after my Dad developed our first Webmaster Course back in 1993 I soon ended up doing the course myself and this eventually led to me tutoring the course.

Since then we have gone from strength to strength and we continue to develop innovative course materials and the Distance Learning Centre website was created as a platform to offer a wide range of distance learning courses. The Web Design courses remain a popular course choice but equally we offer a range of courses that can lead directly to specific job roles such as teaching assistant and child care courses that lead to full QCF qualifications or GCSE, IGCSE and A Level Courses which are still massively important for many job roles and further education applications.

Through our Distance Learning Centre website, e have supplied direct to companies and company employees from many leading international organisations such as:

• The NHS
• The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)
• The Armed Forces
• Job Centre Plus
• Jaguar Land Rover
• Ford Motor Company
• Barclays Bank
• St Loye's Foundation
• Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
• The United Nations
• European Union (EU)
• BT
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• Siemens
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Distance Learning Centre is recognised as a centre to deliver accredited courses and qualifications through Open Awards and is a member of ABCC (Association of British Correspondence Colleges), BILD (British Institute for Learning & Development), the Federation of Small Businesses and we are also listed on the UK register of learning providers (UK PRN: 10055548).