ORIGIN garden design BLOG

How to Design a Garden

barefeetblogs — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:41:11 +0000

Designing Your Own Garden Easily…

As a professional garden designer I often have customers tell me how difficult it is for them to ‘do something’ nice with their garden…

Not true at all.

Designing your own garden isn’t anywhere near as difficult as you may think if you know a few simple things.

Top 3 Design Your Garden Tips

The first thing is not to get seduced into buying lots of plants and features as these won’t give your garden the ‘wow factor’ you think they will. Plants and features, although lovely to look at and fun to shop for are the finishing touch, the icing on the cake.
View your garden as a whole object rather than a series of parts. This will get you to take everything into account rather than just ‘doing’ a corner of the garden and wonder why it isn’t working very well.
Measure your garden and put it on paper before you work on it. Boring? Well ok, a little, but it is vital to success. Imagine trying to buy a pair of trousers if you had no idea what size you took and weren’t able to try them on in the shop.

Hiring a Professional Garden Designer

Over at the ORIGIN website you can see a selection of the work I do. I’ve been designing gardens professionally for nearly 20 years now and have designed every conceivable size, shape and style of garden you can imagine. I’ve created a free guide with how to choose and work with landscape professionals, which can be downloaded here: Seven Steps to a Great Garden Guide.

Or Learn How to Design Your Own Garden

On the website Successful Garden Design - there are online garden design and plant expert training courses. The main course that will enable anyone to transform their garden is called the Great Garden Formula Design course.

If you’d like to see some free garden design video tutorials then head on over to Successful Garden Design website. If you have any garde n design questions leave me a comment on that website and I’ll be happy to help you.

Stuck with what to do with your garden?

barefeetblogs — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:31:12 +0000

Rachel from ORIGIN has set up a website devoted to teaching you all the tricks and tips the professional garden designers use.

Visit the site - Successful Garden Design and sign up to receive your free e-report on how to avoid the most common garden design mistakes.

What are your garden design nightmares?!

barefeetblogs — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:28:17 +0000

We will soon be launching the online Successful Garden Design course. Before we do though, we’d very much like to hear about your garden design experiences. Especially the bad ones!

What problems have you experienced trying to design your own garden? If you’ve ever done a design course, what were the good and bad points for you?

What are the most important things you want to learn about garden design? Whatever your garden design woes are, tell us all about them! Just leave comments at the bottom of this blog.

By leaving a comment, you will be automatically entered into the prize draw to WIN yourself a place in the interactive online Successful Garden Design Course - you’ll discover all the tricks of the trade the professionals use to create stunning gardens – a prize worth several hundred pounds! 20 runners up will receive the first part of the course – enough to get you on the road to successfully designing your own garden – a skill you can take with you every time you move house!

Looking forward to hearing your comments.

Rachel

ORIGIN garden design & Successful Garden Design