Garden Design Education and Training

Faced with a blank page how do you design a garden? Look on THE Gardening Website and you will find a host of places where you can learn the secrets of successfully designing a garden.

Whether your aim is to qualify as a professional landscape designer or to learn enough to redesign your own plot there are centres around the country providing exactly the course you need and at some of them you will be taught by the most famous garden designers in the country. THE Gardening Website lists all those educational centres that can give you the training you are seeking.

So, whether you want to make garden design your career or just learn enough to make your garden more attractive, here on THE Gardening Website you will find the colleges and courses where you can fulfil your dreams.

Gardening courses
Gardening is a fascinating subject; an absorbing hobby, a profitable pastime and a healthy activity which many enthusiasts spend a lifetime learning. Specialist gardening and horticultural trainers on the pages of THE Gardening Website offer a wide range of distance learning and residential courses to help you get the best from your garden.

Learn how to grow your own veg, build a garden pond or propagate Camellias. Some courses are aimed at the budding beginner while others cater for the keen amateur with fingers green from years of practice. Whatever level of assistance you need, it is available here.
Professionals in horticulture, gardening, garden design and landscaping looking for career development courses, an RHS qualification perhaps, will find training available from some of the colleges listed here on THE Gardening Website.

In the garden you never stop learning; follow a selection of the courses from these providers and you will never want to!

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Siting of vegetable beds. Sharon Clark, Wales

Dear Hugh I am moving to SW Wales within the month, and…

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Wisteria drying out. Sima Lee, Canada

Dear Sir, I am in Canada. I planted a wisteria in the…

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Spiral designs for a garden. Nancy Simpson, Wisconsin, USA

Dear Hugh, I am interested in spiral gardens. I was led to…

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Accessing the back of a border. Mrs J Beers, UK

Dear Hugh, We have recently moved house and my husband has dug…

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Adding a swimming pool. Sandy, UK

Good afternoon, I am most impressed by your web site – evidently…

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Brown patches in Leylandi. Colin Board, UK

Dear Hugh I have a leylandi hedge around my house & since…

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Can you help me design a Japanese garden for a school project? Simeon Miller, UK

Dear Mr.O’Connell, I am doing a coursework project on garden design. I…

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Can you suggest a climbing plant that I can put in a deep tub that I have on a north facing wall? Kevin of North Wales, UK

Dear Hugh, I wonder if you can suggest a climbing plant that…

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Choosing a garden design course. Satomi Narui, Japan

Dear Mr.Hugh, I am writing to ask for your advice. I am…

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Designing a garden in France. Hugh and Mimi Kilgour, France

Dear Hugh We have realised a dream of building a house in…

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Do you do diplomas? Norman, Sri Lanka

Dear Hugh I hope you can help. I wish my son to…

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Do you know of any source of Japanese stone urns? Gentleman from Stroud, UK

I cannot find a source of Japanese stone urns. Do you know…

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Do you know the source of any large containers? Suzanne Overton, UK

I have a solid chalk garden and therefore need to have almost…

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Hedge advice required – alternative to Leylandi. Allan Hadley, Scotland

I have a detached house on a corner plot bordered at the…

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How do I get into the landscape design profession? Cami Zaugg, Utah, USA

I am a stay at home mom in Utah and would like…

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How do I totally kill off all the existing grass in a field, so that I can re-level and eventually reseed it all? Martin Mackay of Ireland

Dear Hugh, I visited your uk garden designer web site, very interesting.…

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