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Company Name: Jo-Anne Hilliar Landscape Design School
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Course Title: 2-Day Basic Landscape Design Programme

Objectives:

To teach basic design principles, incorporating a practical and hands on approach in applying these principles in one’s own garden.
To introduce a positive sense of purpose in the garden that you are aiming to create and an understanding of garden styles to be applied.
To teach the basics of scale, assisting with creativity on paper.
How to work with plant material in your own garden and combinations thereof, applying design principles learnt.
To meet other gardeners and therefore share common problems and ideas and to participate in a two - day programme which is fun, interesting and above all informative and applicable to one’s own environment.

Course Outline:

Day 1	Day 2
WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN? BASIC GROUND RULES & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN MAJOR DESIGN PRINCIPLES SIMPLICITY UNITY & HARMONY INTEREST & ATMOSPHERE COLOUR TEXTURES & SHAPES BALANCE SEASONAL CHOICES POWERPOINT PRESENTATION	RE-DESIGNING EXISTING GARDENS SPECIAL FEATURES USED IN DESIGN BOUNDARIES HARD LANDSCAPING FEATURES COMPLIMENTARY PLANTING FEATURES THE INDIGENOUS FACTOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BASIC DRAWING TECHNIQUES AND REQUIREMENTS DISSECTION OF PLAN MAKE A SCALE DRAWING
Tea	Tea
DESIGN PRINCIPLES EXERCISE LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES LANDSCAPING STYLES COTTAGE / ENGLISH GARDEN CONTEMPORARY / NATURAL / FAMILY GARDEN COURTYARD GARDEN FORMAL GARDEN THE TROPICAL GARDEN THE HERB GARDEN THE WATER FEATURE THE LOW MAINTENANCE / INDIGENOUS GARDEN THE ROCKERY GARDEN THE JAPANESE GARDEN POWERPOINT PRESENTATION	SOIL, COMPOSTING, FEATURES AND SITE PREPARATION – PRACTICAL TIPS TO FOLLOW PERSONAL COMMITMENT AND PATIENCE IN DESIGN BASIC PLANTING COMBINATIONS PLANT LIST TREES INDIGENEOUS EXOTICS SHRUBS INDIGENEOUS EXOTICS GROUNDCOVERS AND FILLERS INDIGENEOUS EXOTICS GRASSES / SEDGES
Lunch	Lunch
DISCOVERING ONE’S OWN STYLE DISCOVERING YOUR GARDEN – EXERCISE THE SOUTH AFRICAN DESIGN RE-DESIGNING EXISTING GARDEN EXERCISE - HOMEWORK	DESIGN PRACTICAL IN NURSERY PRESENTATION OF DESIGN CLOSURE / EVALUATION
End of Day 1	End of Day 2

Course Title 2	2-Day Basic Landscape Design Programme
Classification	Landscape and Garden -> Landscape Design
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Notes	Please note that course is in the process of being converted into correspondence format.

Course Information
Location	COUNTRYWIDE
Course Type	Distant Learning
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Name	Jo-Anne Hilliar Landscape Design School
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Email	adminhillscapes.co.za

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