This is where to come if you want to learn or improve skills that are not taught on design courses.

This page contains links to courses, training, coaching and mentoring, and also You Tube tutorials and Podcasts that specifically cater for Garden Design.

There are 4 categories:

  • Business-related skills

    As well as being a great designer, in order to be successful you must also be good at running your design business. This page links to courses and coaching on:

    • Setting up and running your business

    • Handling customer relationships

    • Effective management

  • Practical Skills

    In order to fully appreciate the complexities of the materials we use in our designs, it can be really valuable to get ‘hands on’ with those materials. This page includes links to courses that teach:

    • construction skills like brick-laying,

    • garden photography

    • video editing (coming soon)

  • Design-related skills

    Supporting the core design taught on Design Courses - specialisms such as:

    • rain gardens

    • designing water features

    • specification-writing

    • contributing to planning applications

  • CAD skills

    Courses, Guides, and 1-2-1 coaching on:

    • designing in SketchUp, Vectorworks, AutoCAD

    • rendering in Twinmotion, Lumion or VRay

    • presenting plans via Layout, Photoshop, or Illustrator

Explore the options, and plan your learning path!

If you’d like more help planning your personal CPD, see below for our future plans:

As this website grows, we will be offering a membership level that will give you access to a personalised learning path that you can save, amend, update, and get help with from the Team at The GDP.

If you’d like to register your interest in this membership simply pop your name and email in the box below and we’ll add you to our list.

You’ll be the first to know when this membership service is coming out.

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