If you keep redrawing the back garden in your head, start here. You cover site analysis, plant and turf selection, hardscaping and styling. Two working designers mentor you, and that is the right fit.
Loving plants and designing a space are different skills. This course teaches the second one, from brief through to build.
Two working designers read what you submit and tell you what is off. That is how design gets better.
Design briefs, site analysis and styling are what a client pays for. Learn them and you can charge for the work.
Design work runs through nurseries, studios and people's own back yards. The work is easy to picture: walking a site, sketching a layout, choosing what goes where.
Designing private gardens for people who live in them.
Larger sites, harder ground, more of the built elements.
Advising customers on planting with a designer's eye.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Contractor, horticulture and consulting work often needs a licence or a trade behind it.
Ten topics: read the site, choose the planting, then build the picture.
Three things carry this course: named mentors, live sessions, and a full year to work through it.
Clare Mackarness founded Clare Mack Studio. Jim Fogarty is an AILA registered landscape architect with international awards behind him.
Planting workshops, concept demonstrations, site walkthroughs and layout critiques run live. There are guest talks and portfolio sessions too.
Access runs twelve months for about sixty hours of study. Design work takes thinking time, and the format allows it.
Industry recognised, awarded on completion
You finish with an industry recognised micro-credential. It stands as professional development.
Clare and Jim critique your key submissions in writing. That feedback is the part you keep.
ICOES, the CPD Standards Office and the International Approval and Registration Centre all back the college.
Ask for the course guide. It takes a minute.
An advisor checks the course fits what you want to design.
Choose a payment option and open the first topic.
Send work in, get critique back, redraw it better.
None is stated. It suits people brand new to landscape design, and people already working who want to sharpen the design side.
Access runs twelve months, and the study is about 60 hours. Most people spread it out, since design work wants thinking time.
From $29 a week on a payment plan, with no deposit and no credit check. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or settle it upfront.
No exams, ever. Mentors review your key submissions and give constructive critique on them.
Design itself is not a licensed trade, so people do start taking private clients on skills like these. Building the garden is a different matter, and construction, drainage and structural work need licensed trades. What this gives you is the design end: the brief, the site read, the planting plan and the styling.
Clare Mackarness, a landscape designer who founded Clare Mack Studio, and Jim Fogarty, an AILA registered landscape architect with international awards. Both critique student work directly.
It is an industry recognised micro-credential, backed by ICOES, the CPD Standards Office and the International Approval and Registration Centre. That is recognition for professional development. It is not a nationally recognised credential under the Australian Qualifications Framework, and the college is not an RTO. For building a design portfolio with mentor feedback behind it, that is the job it does.
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The Career Academy is an online college teaching design, business and health subjects. This course is delivered through Ulleo, its education partner, and you enrol through the college.
Picture standing in a garden you drew before anyone planted it.