Gateway Qualifications
Level 3
QN: 600/9675/5
Curriculum Active
Gateway Qualifications Level 3 Diploma In Garden Design
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Gateway Qualifications. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 450 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
Gateway Qualifications
Syllabus Units
16 Units
Guided Hours
450 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Garden Design Customer Service
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of good customer service in a garden design business.
- Understand possible consequences of poor customer service in a garden design business.
- Understand the value of first impressions.
- Understand positive verbal and non-verbal communication with customers.
- Understand the importance of respect for the individual in customer service.
- Understand how to deal with complaints from customers.
2
Garden Design Detailing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to survey and analyse a site for garden design.
- Know how to incorporate specified features into a design presentation plan.
- Understand the construction detailing of hard landscape features.
- Know how to source materials appropriate to the client brief.
3
Garden Design Documentation and Legislation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to devise a plant schedule.
- Be able to prepare documentation to support the implementation and maintenance of a planting scheme.
- Understand legislation affecting the garden design process.
4
Garden Design in Context
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the design of an outdoor space relates to the architecture and the broader environment.
- Create an analytical illustrated record of visits to gardens and landscapes.
5
Garden Design Principles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to use graphic and presentation skills in garden design.
- Understand the principles of design.
- Understand the importance of mass and void in garden design.
- Understand the importance of geometry in the design process.
6
Garden Design Process and Development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and interpret a given client brief.
- Understand the garden design process.
- Know how to use section-elevations as forms of visual communication.
- Use water in a design.
- Understand how rendering can be used to enhance a presentation plan.
- Know how to express design ideas three dimensionally.
7
Garden Design Solutions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to respond effectively to different garden sites and client briefs.
- Be able to work to an acceptable timescale to provide planting and design solutions.
- Be able to provide planting design solutions for domestic sites.
- Be able to evaluate own garden design work and that of others.
8
Garden Design Styles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know a range of garden design styles.
- Know the work of a named garden designer.
- Understand the development of a named garden designer’s work.
9
Hard Landscaping Materials and Features
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how hard landscaping materials can be used in the garden.
- Know how to use hard landscaping materials in specific situations.
- Understand the use of hard landscaping features in enhancing garden design.
- Know how to specify hard landscaping materials and methods.
10
Planning for a Garden Design Project
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the resource requirements for specific garden design projects.
- Know how to source resources for garden design projects.
- Be able to work within budget for garden design projects.
- Be able to develop action plans for garden design projects.
11
Plant and Garden History
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the development of garden design through history.
- Understand changes and developments in horticulture and plant use within a historical context.
- Understand the history of plants and garden making in a socio-political and economic context.
12
Plant Observation and Analysis
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand appropriate plant selection and association through own observations.
13
Plant Studies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role played by trees, shrubs, wall shrubs and climbing plants in the garden.
- Understand how to use herbaceous plants and bulbs to extend the seasons of interest in the garden or landscape.
- Understand the design qualities of plants.
- Know a wide range of plants.
- Know factors to consider when using poisonous and hazardous plants in the garden.
- Understand plant association.
14
Planting Design Appraisal
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to review and develop a successful planting scheme in accordance with written proposals.
15
Plants and their Environment
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand factors affecting plant selection and growth.
- Understand how to create a planting scheme in harmony with environmental and climatic conditions.
- Know a range of plant adaptations and their role in plant growth and survival.
16
Setting Up in Garden Design
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the skills and knowledge required in starting and running a garden design business.
- Understand the importance of business decisions at start up.
- Understand the opportunities and challenges involved in running own garden design business.
- Understand the importance of support networks in running own garden design business.
- Understand the importance of promoting a positive image and ideas.
- Understand the importance of effective communication.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 600/9675/5
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Gateway Qualifications
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jul 2013