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Starting a Gardening Business

Written by Duncan Heather on .

Considering starting a gardening business? Armed with your newly minted qualification, you are ready to make an impact and earn money. Unless your course is deliberately chosen as a leisure activity, or you aim to further your study academically you will want to see a return on your investment. You [...]

Winter Garden Structure

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In temperate and northern climates architectural plants are most evident during the skeletal winter months, when all is laid bare. So what is an architectural plant? Structure and form are its two common elements. Visually strong and ever-present, architectural plants are the backbone of every planting [...]

Aspire and Specialise

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Should You Specialise In One Particular Design Style?Is specialising in one particular landscape design style a good idea?  Aspiring garden designers, just like any students of a new discipline, may have dreams or ambition to design other than domestic or commercial landscapes. The world of landscape [...]

Landscape Design Style: Should You Specialise

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Is specialising in one particular landscape design style a good idea?  Aspiring garden designers, just like any students of a new discipline, may have dreams or ambition to design other than domestic or commercial landscapes. The world of landscape and garden design is just that: a big wide world full [...]

A Moment at Dusk

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Taking Inspiration from Nature.  I took my dog Oliver for a favourite walk at dusk this evening. It was 5.15pm and still just light enough to make out the path which runs high above and parallel to the sandy strand edging the bay. Known as 'green lanes' around here they are tractor-wide grassy [...]

Aspire and Specialise

Written by Duncan Heather on .

How training as a garden designer will change your whole outlook on life. Aspiring garden designers, just like any students of a new discipline, may have dreams or ambition to design other than domestic or local commercial landscapes. The world of landscape and garden design is just that: a big wide [...]

Changing Course

Written by Duncan Heather on .

Thinking of Becoming a Garden Designer?There are a myriad reasons for choosing to study landscape or garden design and perhaps that is why you are reading this blog. You may be a school-leaver or new graduate entranced by the notion of working with plants in the great outdoors. Perhaps you are seeking [...]

Gardening Jobs: Thinking of Becoming a Garden Designer?

Written by Duncan Heather on .

Did you know that most people in their 40's / 50's, looking at gardening jobs as a possible career change, choose garden design?  There are myriad reasons for choosing to study landscape or garden design.  Perhaps that is why you are reading this article? While some may be a school-leaver or new graduate [...]

How A Garden Can Add Value To Your Home

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10 tips on how a garden can add value to you property. Gardens have become a lot more than places to grow plants and vegetables. They have become spaces for rest and relaxation; an oasis or retreat from the pleasures or everyday life. They now act as an extension to the living environment of our homes, [...]

Inspiring Your Clients To Win More Work

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During your initial paid, on-site consultation of around two hours you will have taken a careful tour of the garden, noting your (possibly unspoken) observations of positive and negative features and including as many site details as possible. You will have asked questions and taken photographs. You [...]
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