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Costing and Specifying Garden Projects
2-day workshop with Richard Sneesby
18, 19 March 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£285 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Accurate cost estimating is essential for garden designers. Learn how to prepare specifications and contract documents for use in client discussions, budgetary approval, appointing contractors and giving best value for money. This will ensure that your designs can be achieved within budget and forms the basis for assessing a contractor’s quotation prior to appointment. On the second day, explore how cost estimating is performed by the contracting industry, giving you a sound understanding for compiling competitive cost quotations for design and build work. Class size limited to 20. An advanced course for established garden designers.
Richard Sneesby works as a landscape architect and garden designer and is currently programme leader of Garden Design at Falmouth College of Arts. A Chelsea Flower Show medal-winner, he is also a TV presenter and co-author of The Garden Makers Manual.
Making Money from Garden Design
1-day slide lecture with Richard Key
Thursday 20 March 2008 (10.30am-3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Ideal for established garden designers or those considering a career change, you will learn how to set up a profitable design business. Richard Key will explain how to run a garden design practice and achieve success by discussing motivation, planning, terms and conditions, insurance and fees. His talk will clarify your approach to your business and should increase your garden design income. Some related experience is helpful for students.
Richard Key is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers, an award-winning garden designer and the author of several books including Outdoor Living.
Garden Design Day - Country Gardens
1-day workshop with James Alexander Sinclair
24 April 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
A workshop on the particular problems and peculiar delights involved in designing gardens in the countryside. Looking at larger scale planting, boundaries, hills, water, trees, the passing of time and how gardens fit comfortably in with the surrounding landscape. Not only will we look at existing gardens, both private and public, to see how all these elements have been treated but we will also spend time exploring alternatives - formal or informal, woodland or lawn, arboretum or herbaceous border. Design solutions for the well dressed 21st Century country garden.
James Alexander Sinclair is a garden designer, journalist and broadcaster - well known for his wit, energy and flair. He mostly specialises in designing large country gardens and is also well known for presenting the BBC's Small Town Gardens series, amongst other TV appearances. He lectures regularly and also presents seminars at events like BBC Gardeners World Live and the RHS Malvern Show.
Garden Design Day - Contemporary Gardens
1-day workshop with Andrew Wilson
1 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Andrew Wilson is a RHS Chelsea Show Garden Judge and an award winning garden designer with a special interest in contemporary design. This workshop will provide an insight into the design approach, the development of concepts, the selection and use of materials and the opportunities for exciting and innovative planting design. All aimed at simplifying the palette but maximising the impact.
Andrew Wilson BA(Hons) DipLA FSGD is the former Vice Principal of Inchbald School, a past Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers and an external examiner for both Greenwich University and Writtle College.
Garden Design Day - Ecological Gardens
1-day workshop with Noel Kingsbury
8 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
A basic understanding of plant ecology can do much to make gardening more interesting. The implications for design of a number of issues are considered: weed control, drought, flooding, reduced maintenance. In particular we look at how it is possible to predict plant performance at first sight.
Noel Kingsbury is well known as a garden lecturer and writer. His numerous books include The Wild Flower Garden, The Ultimate Planting Guide and Natural Gardening in Small Spaces. His garden project at Cowley Manor in Gloucestershire has been recognised as one of the most important visionary schemes of its kind.
Garden Design Day - City Gardens
1-day workshop with Jill Billington
15 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
City gardens, where space is at a premium, often need more care in planning than larger sites. Being enclosed and compact, everything matters and careful consideration is essential. The use of space and the choices of plants make the smallest space enticing, even in winter.
Jill Billington trained as a sculptor and has practised as a garden designer for over 20 years. As a member of the Chelsea Panel, she judges garden design for the RHS shows and is the author of Really Small Gardens and New Classic Gardens.
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