Garden Designing.

                                     Garden Designing

Garden designing can refer either to an amateur or a professional who designs the plan and features of gardens. Amateurs design their gardens for their own properties. Professionals, with experienced skills, design gardens that benefit clients. The compositional elements of garden design and landscape design are: terrain, water, planting, constructed elements and buildings, paving, site characteristics and genius loci, and the local climatic qualities. Professional garden designers are trained in and use both the aesthetic arts and technical disciplines for design projects.

Now comes the person who is best known for designing gardens.

The Garden Designers.

They are professionals as they would set up a garden in a very attractive manner.They will check the area where you want to have a garden,and will tell you whether the place is good enough for a garden or not.They are specialist in all kind of garden from small indoor garden’s to huge lawn garden’s.If you don’t know anything about how to create a garden.I suppose you should ask the professionals.A garden is not something that you throw some seeds here and there and start growing a garden.It could ruin the whole look of a garden.You have to see which type of garden you can have in the particular area.You have see what flower you can grow,what kind of garden you can have.So my opinion is if don’t know anything about a garden you should ask a professional how to do it.

Services

Garden designers are skilled specialists dealing with master planning of landscapes and design of gardens, consulting with advice for clients, providing direction and supervision during construction, and the management of establishment and maintenance once the garden has been created. They are able to survey the site, and prepare drawings for the development of a garden from concepts to construction, and resource the plant and building materials. Historically, many gardens have been designed by talented amateurs without formal training, and many others have been designed by people whose artistic or design training was not originally focused on gardens. The complexities in contemporary environmental design issues and technology increase the scope professional garden designers fill.

Methods

Illustration from a popular nineteenth century book on garden design: Edward Kemp's How to lay out a Garden. The drawing shows how to plant a group of trees framing views to the scenery beyond.

A wide range of design methods have been used by garden designers, depending partly on the historical period in which they worked and partly on the professional discipline with which they have the closest relationship. One can, for example, speak of an "architect's garden", "artist's garden" or a "plantsman's garden". Treating the subject historically, one can say that ancient gardens were likely to have been "drawn" directly on the ground, that Renaissancegardens were drawn on paper and that modern gardens are drawn on a computer. The design process always has an influence on the design

There tends to be a distinction between those designers who start with the plant palette and its needs, called garden design; and those designers who begin with consideration of the space and place-making to create architectural spaces and circulation routes with plants and other elements, called landscape design. Many famous gardens which contain many interesting plants can be incompletely planned as a whole and integrated composition. Also, many gardens which are well planned in overall design can lack the interests from planting detail. Some keen gardeners who are very knowledgeable about plants can be resistant to conceptualizing design. Some very competent designers and landscape architects have a meager amount of diverse botanical and horticultural knowledge and experience. A competent and talented garden designer can synthesize both needs to design sand create beautiful and sustainable landscapes and gardens.

Garden design education

Historically, garden designers were trained under the apprentice system, such as André Le Nôtre with his father and Beatrix Farrand with Charles Sprague Sargent. Specialist university-level landscape planning and garden design courses were established in the twentieth century, generally attached to departments of agriculture, horticulture, or architecture. In the second half of the twentieth century many of these courses changed their scale of focus and their nomenclature, from garden design to landscape architecture. Towards the end of the twentieth century a number of BA garden design curricula were established with the emphasis more on design than horticulture. Horticultural colleges, in ornamental horticulture departments, and architecture colleges, in landscape architecture departments, continue to train contemporary garden designers.