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The School’s Principal, Rob Whitehead, has over 20 years' design and business experience and runs his own successful design consultancy alongside teaching the majority of the Diploma garden design course ...
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Diploma – Garden Design Course
  • Learn the skills required to become a professional garden designer
  • A qualification recognised throughout the industry
  • Part time over one academic year
  • Challenging, rewarding and enjoyable
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CAD Garden Design Courses
  • VectorWorks™ and AutoCAD
  • One to one, small group and classroom tuition
  • Taught at 4 levels, beginners to advanced
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CPD Garden Design Courses
  • Continuous professional development; the building blocks to help you further your career
  • For established designers and those new to the profession
  • Choose from a range of courses to brush up on existing skills or learn new ones
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Thank you for visiting Pickard School of Garden Design.

One of the longest established Schools of Garden Design in the UK, we are proud of our reputation for producing some of the country's most talented garden designers - as evidenced by their Show Garden records and their successes in their new ventures. 90% of our students who wish to practice garden design professionally go on to do so.

From our training centres in London and Bristol, we teach students of all ages and from a wide variety of backgrounds the skills required both to design gardens at a professional level and to run their own design businesses. We also provide garden design courses for newly qualified and more experienced garden designers, enabling them to develop new skills, keep up to date with developments and expand their businesses.

Join us as the first step towards one of the most rewarding and enjoyable of careers.

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