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New course - Green walls and green roof gardening
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Jez Young liked Colin Elliott's discussion International Festival of Gardens 2013 - Chaumont sur Loire
Colin Elliott posted a discussionInternational Festival of Gardens 2013 - Chaumont sur Loire
Always popular with UK graden designers, here are a few thoughts and photographs from this years festival:http://gardendesigncompany.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/chaumont-festival-preview-courson-dreaming/See More
Colin Elliott replied to Craig Nester's discussion Garden Design Diploma"Hi Craig,
At the risk of being told off for promoting my own services, the Garden Design Academy offers 18 distance learning courses out of a total of more than 90, specifically designed to assist the landscaper and garden designer.
The section you…"
Colin Elliott replied to Jeremy Bevan's discussion Limestone setts - 'slipperiness' problem"I have been reading this discussion with great interest: there is 6 inches of snow on the ground here in central France and not a lot else to do!
If I am correct, the initial question was how to deal with a client who has technical problems with the…"
Colin Elliott added a discussion to the group Garden Design Group
Your Christmas flower garden
Every week I photograph and describe a flower from my garden on Pinterest. This weeks is here: http://pinterest.com/pin/254875660133220308/Each Christmas I like to list every plant in flower in the garden - it's a tradition going back many years. The list is posted on my Gardener in France Blog: http://gardendesigncompany.wordpress.com/Why not join…See More
Colin Elliott replied to Phil Voice's discussion Expert design essential for a good Dementia Sensory Garden in the group Garden Design Group"Fascinating article.
Readers may also be interested in this new distance learning course "Horticultural therapy"
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- Garden Design Academy
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- 0033 254 40 15 42
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- colin@garden-design.co.uk
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- http://www.gardendesignacademy.com
- About your business
- Son of a Cornish nurseryman, I have run nurseries, garden centres, a French seed wholesaler and domestic and commercial landscape companies.
My mis-education started at the Royal gardens of Windsor and continued at horticultural colleges in Cornwall, Berkshire and Worcestershire.
These days I am a garden designer and live in France with my wife and poodle, where we run the Garden Design Academy providing distance learning and residential courses in garden design, gardening, landscaping and horticulture. The Garden Design Academy is the only institution in mainland Europe offering the full range of RHS qualifications.
We continue to design gardens in Europe, USA and China and provide other horticultural services such as consultancy, garden tour guidance, etc.
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- 45 Rue de Varennes
36210 Chabris
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Book review: Botany for Designers
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 13:43 0 Comments 0 Likes
Botany for Designers - a practical guide for Landscape Architects and other Professionals - Kimberley Duffy Turner - W.W.Norton & Company
On hearing the title of this book I could not help but smile: what a good idea! The author is schooled in both horticulture and landscape…
Continue In flower this Christmas
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 16:04 1 Comment 1 Like
As promised, between the champagne and the Christmas duck, I muffled-up warmly and paced about the garden looking for flowers. I have included only those I have found in my own garden; extended to include others in the village, the list might be much longer.
This fine seasonal ritual has been practiced by British gardeners for generations, with the results being posted to the Letters to the Editor section of some of the more serious papers for the education and edification of…
Continue New Garden Design Academy Facebook page
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 17:49 0 Comments 0 Likes
Amid huge excitement the Garden Design Academy has just launched its new Facebook page. We have taken the same approach to Facebook as we did with our web site. First sign up and put something on line; learn how it works and what we could do with it. In the light of this experience improve the site, and then improve it some more. The result is this Welcome page which can be found at…
Continue Something for nothing - courses and cuttings
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 13:22 0 Comments 0 Likes
Something for nothing always goes down well with clients, I find, and the Garden Design Academy has been attempting to provide just that this week.
Residential courses were the surprise success of 2011 and as a result we have been able both to reduce the price of the courses for 2012 and host them more often. There are five residential courses currently offered, compared to eighty home study courses, so there is great potential to…
Continue Distance learning courses for gardeners, landscapers, garden designers and now.....parks and recreation
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 15:31 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Garden Design Academy began by providing training to garden designers and by assisting home gardeners to design their own gardens. I started offering these in the UK from our offices in Hertfordshire and when we moved to France they took on a whole new lease of life.
The small selection of…
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