HND GARDEN DESIGN

Resources

• Extensive glasshouse facilities
  
• Field nursery stock production
  
• Computer controlled environmental and irrigation systems
  
• Fruit and container production units
  
• Plant propagation centre
  
• Fully equipped landscape training centre
  
• Demonstration garden for leading national retailers
  
• Fully labelled plant collectiopn throughout the College grounds
  
• 10 acres of landscaped gardens and two National Collections within Broadview Gardens
  
• Fully commercial garden centre
  

Typical Employers
Local authorities, nurseries, garden centres, publicly and privately owned gardens, commercial landscaping companies.

Industry Links

Students benefit from a wide range of links with commercial nurseries, research institutes, organic producers, public and privately owned gardens as well as exposure to the retail world through our onsite garden centre. The College is also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; NCCPG and the Hardy Plant Society.

More about Horticulture, Landscape & Design Courses faculty

Encompassing a wide variety of activities – including practical work – that crosses the divide between art and science, graduates address the core issues involved in the design and implementation of gardens.

UCAS Course Code: 013K H HND/GDes

Entry Requirements

80 UCAS points: 1 A level at Grade C or above or National Diploma at PPM or equivalent supported by GCSEs.

Additional Experience
Applications from mature students without the standard entry qualifications, or who are working in the industry, are warmly welcomed.

Location
Hadlow

Course Duration
Full time: 2 years, 3 days per week. Part time: 3 years, 1 day per week.

Course Content

Year 1

• Visual studies
• Basic design
• Plant science and soils
• Surveying
• Hard and soft materials
• Garden management
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Year 2

• Planting design
• Garden design ideas and theory
• Design sites and materials
• Design clients and processes
• Ecology and conservation
• Construction and planting
• Garden design site practice
• Digital landscapes

Students may choose to extend this course by a year and spend the second year in a paid work placement within the sector. (This is not a compulsory sandwich placement year).

Assessment Method
Coursework (design portfolio presentations, written reports and practical assignments) as well as plant identification tests, CAD work and written examinations.

Progression Routes
Successful students can progress onto the BA (Hons) Garden Design programme. Alternatively, they may pursue careers in one of the creative or technical consultancies which exist.

Specialist Equipment Needed
Protective clothing, footwear and secateurs.

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