| A Garden Designer is a professional or amateur | | | | methods for constructing gardens. From |
| who designs the plan and features of gardens. | | | | renaissance gardens that were drawn by pen and |
| While professional designers are more experienced | | | | paper to contemporary ones that are drawn |
| and work for various clients for set fees, | | | | solely with computer software, the process of |
| amateurs design their own gardens or those of | | | | the design has always influenced the end product. |
| friends and relatives just as a hobby. | | | | There have been attempts to distinguish between |
| Garden designs and landscape work hand in hand. | | | | landscape and Design. A typical Designer will build |
| They deal with topography, water and drainage, | | | | around plant palettes while Landscape designers |
| planting, aesthetics, building and construction, site | | | | build around space considerations and place-making |
| characteristics, climate and genius loci. These | | | | to create architectural spaces and circulation |
| designers are trained to incorporate aesthetic arts | | | | routes with plants and other elements. An |
| and technical arts in the design of projects. | | | | appreciation of this can be seen in gardens that |
| The twentieth century has seen courses change | | | | have interesting plants but were not planned as a |
| emphasis from horticulture to focus more on the | | | | whole and integrated composition; and well planned |
| design aspects. The traditional apprentice system | | | | gardens - in terms of overall designs, that lack |
| in which designers used to learn the trade slowly | | | | interesting planting details. |
| gave way to specialist college-level landscape | | | | Some designers have a wide knowledge with |
| planning and design courses. Today, ornamental | | | | plants but lack conceptual designs, other very |
| horticulture and landscape architecture | | | | exposed landscape architects and designers lack |
| departments of various universities continue to | | | | horticultural and botanical know-how. Any good |
| churn out modern garden designers. | | | | designer must be able to do both - create |
| By virtue of historical periods and professional | | | | beautiful and interesting gardens on sustainable |
| discipline, there has been an evolution of design | | | | landscapes. |