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My wife is doing it distance learning with the English Gardening School. Enjoying it so far.
I did a Garden Art & Design degree nearly 20yrs ago and wanted to increase and refresh my knowledge in preparation for starting up my garden design business again recently. I found the successful garden design diploma online course by Garden Designer Rachel Mathews, which I started about a year ago and hope to finish this winter. Im really glad I've done it, it was just what I was looking for, you can do it as and when suits as it's all online/downloadable to do offline, has modules that cover everything you might need and can purchase them all as a bundle, as I did, or separately. The first part is mostly videos & reading followed by practical modules to put what you've learnt fully into practice.
I recommend it.
https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/dont-be-fooled-by-the-landsc...
She might have been having a bad day the day she wrote this. I'm not doubting her ability but how far off was she on this??...
I used to do some building design work forty years ago, everything hand drawn with pen and ink using Rotring pens and ink, lettering stencilled by hand, life changed and I stopped doing it.
In a burst of enthusiasm around five years ago I enrolled for an Autocad course at the local tech college to set about learning to do designs on screens rather than on a drawing board. I enjoyed the course, but it did not really prove that useful and I didn’t progress.
You are going to have to decide how you intend to present your work to clients, I’m sure that some having watched TV programmes will expect virtual reality walk throughs rather than a image drawn in pastels on paper.
You also need to set some very clear payment terms.