An understanding of garden history can provide a wonderful foundation for improving your garden design skills.

This garden history course is not only for students of garden design, but also for practicing professional designers, and horticulturists who wish to broaden their understanding of gardens across many countries and over the centuries. Based upon curriculum prepared by the RHS for the Master of Horticulture (This can be taken also as part of that Masters degree), the course has been written by highly qualified garden designers from both the UK and Australia, to present different styles of gardens and demonstrate the evolution of gardens across the world.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction

2. Development of Private Gardens

3. Development of Public and Commercial Landscapes

4. Great Gardens & Gardeners of the World

5. People who Influenced Gardens

6. Globalisation of Gardens

7. Scope and Nature of Modern Garden Conservation

8. The Role of Organisations in Garden Conservation