Planting Design Courses
I currently teach at SRUC King’s Building on their Garden and Greenspace Design course. I also deliver various CPD courses for the Society of Garden Designers. Guest lectures are given from time to time on request.
Topics I regularly cover are Plant Habitat Stereotypes, Plant Sociability and Constructing Plant Compositions. I have given guest lectures on the basics of an ecologically informed apporach to planting design. Recently I also delivered a new day event on Selecting Climate Resilient Trees.
Up coming CPD events will be listed here.
Get in touch to book me for a guest lecture in your design practice.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 21st and 28th
SGD Online Training - 2 morning sessions
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Ecologically Informed Planting – The Design Process
Designing ecologically informed herbaceous planting schemes involves a lot of plant knowledge, but there is more to it than that. In this course we will focus on the design process. How exactly do we move from a site analysis to a finished design. The final output of the process is an excel spreadsheet rather than a conventional planting plan. If you haven’t tried the excel method for designing naturalistic herbaceous planting schemes this will be a good introduction. As with all my courses it'll run over two half day sessions. One session covers the theory, then you'll have a week to apply the theory and we'll discuss your own designs in the second session. These second sessions are always very enjoyable and engaging, hearing from a variety of people based in different parts of the country. Please allow for some time to do the small design exercise between sessions.