Home improvements and gardening

What will I learn? This course aims to introduce you to the skills of landscape horticulture. It will enable you to work on your own designs and to create and maintain your own planting schemes.During the course you will cover:● Drawing techniques and plans● Choice of materials, plants, design layouts● Identify a range of garden [...]

What will I learn? This course aims to provide learners with the techniques and product information required to plan their own interior schemes, making informed choices about colour, wall coverings, lighting schemes and window dressings.During the course learners will:● Explore the properties of colour and colour combinations● Consider how optical illusions can be used in [...]

What will I learn? This course will expand your existing knowledge covered in part one and to begin to develop ideas by working on individual design briefs or a client brief.During the course you will cover:● Space planning using technical drawings● Window dressing and measuring for fabrics ● Fabrics and suitably ● Lighting plans ● [...]

What will I learn? The course aims to consider the planting design of individual learner’s gardens, helping them to extend their knowledge of plants, identify existing plants in their gardens and choose the correct plants to improve and re-design them. During the course learners will:● Consider planting design techniques, the creation of different styles of [...]

What will I learn? The course aims to help learners to choose the right plants to improve and re-design their gardens. During the course learners will consider:● Plant choices● Main elements of low maintenance garden design● Planting ideas to remove work● Ground cover planting and weed control● Drought, wind, pest and disease resistant planting. Is [...]

What will I learn? This course will introduce the wide range of plants used in gardens. It covers the practical growing conditions and structure of both familiar and unusual, garden plants. We will examine the relationships between plants and their use in the garden classification. We also look at their pruning, feeding and care. The [...]

What will I learn? This course aims to provide learners with the techniques and product information required to plan their own interior schemes, making informed choices about colour, wall coverings, lighting schemes and window dressings.We will then go on to look at in-depth planning including window dressing, lighting, heating and power, flooring, wall surfaces, model [...]

What will I learn? This is an introduction to the art of gilding and using various paint effects on a wooden frame to compliment the subject being framed. Demonstration and individual help will be given. During the course learners will learn:● Types of woods and shapes that are suitable for gilding and paint effects● Outline [...]