Landscape Gardening
What ways are there to get into “Landscape Gardening” ?
Ive done GCSE’s and one one year of A levels, but i dislike school and want to do some thing ill enjoy more, im a keen gardener at home and would like to continue my hobby on as a profession.
However i don’t want to go to university, for a number of reasons.
what ways can u suggest that will get me into my ideal job, thanks
e.g. are there apprenticeships in landscape gardening, how do i get into one, courses at college, job with training ????
all help will be greatly appreciated
Hej,
There is a marvellous college called:
CAPLE MANOR College.in Enfield. London. It is the Head office & training site ( one of many in London area) It offers the course you are looking to do. It’s courses & address etc you will be able to check on Google. If you are quick there maybe a possibility to get on this years course re: Sept. 09. It has benefits for people of your age. Good luck.
NB: It will be VERY hard work.
Landscape Gardening
Ordering Chaos – Landscape Gardening, Soft and Hard
When one refers to soft and hard landscape gardening, one is referring to the two elements that make up proper landscaping – the marriage of hard elements, which are manmade, and soft elements, which are “natural” – i.e., a person didn’t construct them. The two taken together form the basis for all good landscaping.
It’s really true to say that landscaping doesn’t work properly without man made elements. Hard landscaping – the part of landscape gardening that refers to the introduction of paths, fences, pagodas and so on – is what sets a garden apart from a park or a full wilderness. Even a wilderness where the plants are tended and ordered isn’t really a garden: it has no boundaries and so doesn’t perform the essential function of all gardening, which is to impose a human order onto the natural chaos we see around us. Basically: without some kind of fence, a garden isn’t a garden because it has no beginning and no end. There’s no way to tell where the garden finishes and the untamed or unordered world of real nature begins.
Landscape gardening is all about compartmentalising nature – delivering the big wide world to homeowners and garden users in small and friendly packages. Many big thinkers over many years have come back again and again to humanity’s desire to make sense of the hugeness of the universe by making small imitations of it in which to live – the garden, which directly refers to the ultimately terrifying wildness that used to sit outside every cave in the world, is probably the ultimate example of this urge. To tame nature by ordering its plants into aesthetically pleasing arrangements is to take the organic chaos of which we are all ancestrally afraid and make it friendly again. Landscape gardening is no more nor less than an attempt, and a pretty successful one at that, to reconstruct the world in a more comprehensible, and so less frightening, form.
The soft parts of landscaping – the plants – are, then, of secondary importance to the hard. To landscape a garden one obviously needs the plants, and they are undeniably the stars of the show – but they are also nothing without the paths and fences that keep the garden contained. People need borders and walls in order to feel safe: without them, the landscaped gardening is at best an ordered park – it isn’t fulfilling its complete potential.
Landscape gardening, then, is done the moment a person puts a fence down, or introduces a plant to a pot. Free standing planters, in fact, are the most compact and common form of landscaping – the ultimate marriage of hard (pot) to soft (flowers). Containing little pieces of nature in this way allows us to make better sense of them – in a way, to enjoy them more. It’s like taking one’s favourite movement out of a huge never ending symphony and just listening to that. A little piece that makes a lot more sense of the whole. All landscape gardening is the same as a plant pot – just bigger and more ornate.
About the Author
Landscape gardening is about creating harmony with the surroundings and the home. It is like a dream picture with beautiful lawn, trees and garden area around a house. For more information please visit http://www.4-winds.co.uk/.
Where do you get your landscape/Garden Ideas from?
Hi, I want to know where your inspiration comes from? In efforts to give me some inspiration as I get mine from answers from other people. and by checking out their ways…
I am in need of a serious garden re do
You are going to love this website, it has everything you need to know about gardening:
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/
And here is their forum. I have been a forum member for about 15 years and still love the gardening folks over there. It is rather slow right now because of winter, but they will soon be talking garden talk:
http://community.bhg.com/t5/Garden-Talk/bd-p/GardenTalk
Landscape Gardening Melbourne