Garden Design School was founded in the UK in 2002, and is recognized there as one of the top training schools in landscape design. In 2009, Garden Design School opened its doors in Boylston, MA to bring its highly successful landscape design career training program to the USA
There myriad landscape design schools and landscape design programs. What we offer is unique: a part time, intensive landscape design program that yields full-time results: focused, comprehensive, professional training completed in 9 months, designed to integrate with people’s current life situations. Visit our ‘Open House’ page to see how you can experience first-hand a taste of what the School is all about.
Our Mission:
- To prepare our students with the hands on, practical knowledge and skills needed to become accomplished, practicing, landscape and garden designers.
- To Inspire each student to apply their own creative gifts and passion to the endless possibilities of landscape design.
Our Method:
- Unique, part time, intensive landscape design program, completed in 9 months, enables superior training with minimal disruption to your life, whether you are starting, changing, or enhancing an existing career.
- Energetic, successful designers, & practitioners from UK and USA teach, demonstrate, and individually guide each portion of the program. Instructors are gifted communicators as well as true artisans and renowned in their fields.
- Individual attention and mentoring assured for each student, in limited class of 18 students each term. This mentoring is foundational to our commitment to students to give them the best that our tutors have, in knowledge, and from their own extensive experience.
Our Desire:
- To Challenge, equip, and inspire each student with all the skill, knowledge, confidence, and creative passion to become successful, practicing landscape & garden designers.
Who We Are ~ Founders and Directors:
Robin Templar Williams and Moira Farnham ~ both award winning and widely respected British designers and instructors. They and a team of experts have created the curriculum, and also are the principal instructors in the school. We also engage a number of guest lecturers that are highly respected & successful. Please visit the About Us link for more information on them, and our guest instructors.
Where We Meet: Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston MA. Tower Hill is a beautifully situated horticultural center for New England, with state-of-the-art facilities and extensive grounds. It is a perfect venue for the design school Program Location.
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