The term garden designer can refer either to an amateur or a professional. Amateurs design their own gardens. Professionals design other people's gardens. The compositional elements of garden design are: landform, water, planting, buildings, paving and climate. Professional garden designers and landscape architects are trained in both the technical and the aesthetic skills.

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  • The term garden designer can refer either to an amateur or a professional. Amateurs design their own gardens. Professionals design other people's gardens. The compositional elements of garden design are: landform, water, planting, buildings, paving and climate. Professional garden designers and landscape architects are trained in both the technical and the aesthetic skills. Garden Designers are skilled specialists dealing with design of landscapes and garden areas, offering advice, providing supervision during construction, and management or after-care once the garden has been made. They are able to survey the site, source the materials, and prepare drawings for the development of a garden from start to finish. Historically, most gardens have been designed by untrained amateurs and many have been designed by people whose design training was not originally in the design of gardens. A wide range of design methods have been used by garden designers, depending partly on the historical period in which they worked and partly on the professional discipline with which they have the closest relationship. One can, for example, speak of an 'architect's garden' an 'artist's garden' or a 'plantsman's garden'. Treating the subject historically, one can say that ancient gardens were likely to have been 'drawn' directly on the ground, that Renaissance gardens were drawn on paper and that modern gardens are 'drawn' on a computer screen. The design process always has an influence on the design product. There tends to be a divide between designers who start with the plants, on the one hand, and designers who think in terms of routes, architectural spaces and making the garden work sensibly, on the other. Very many famous gardens which are full of interesting plants are actually very badly laid out. On the other hand many gardens which are well laid out have a sad lack of interesting planting in detail. Many keen gardeners who are very knowledgeable about plants are very resistant to the concept of design. Many very competent designers and landscape architects have a woeful lack of plant knowledge. One of the few attempts to address this issue is made in a book called Design in the Plant Collector's Garden, by Roger Turner, published by Timber Press.
  • Trädgårdsingenjör kallas en person med akademisk naturvetenskaplig kunskap inriktad på växtlighet. Kan ha som yrke att designa trädgårdar men de kan också arbeta med yrkesodling av olika slag. Trädgårdsingenjör är en relativt ny utbildning i Sverige och finns idag enbart på SLU, Alnarp.
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  • The term garden designer can refer either to an amateur or a professional. Amateurs design their own gardens. Professionals design other people's gardens. The compositional elements of garden design are: landform, water, planting, buildings, paving and climate. Professional garden designers and landscape architects are trained in both the technical and the aesthetic skills.
  • Trädgårdsingenjör kallas en person med akademisk naturvetenskaplig kunskap inriktad på växtlighet. Kan ha som yrke att designa trädgårdar men de kan också arbeta med yrkesodling av olika slag. Trädgårdsingenjör är en relativt ny utbildning i Sverige och finns idag enbart på SLU, Alnarp.
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  • Garden designer
  • Trädgårdsingenjör
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