There are quite a few design and landscape symbols already embedded in Sketchup in 'Components'. If you go onto the Sketchup website you can download whole libraries of architectural and landscape symbols and embed them into you S...
Hi, I am an art student in the United States, looking to pursue some sort of undergraduate degree or program in garden design, but have found in my college search there are no options in the states. I do not want to waste any time with large commercial landscape architecture-- my interests are specifically in urban gardens-- utilizing small spaces. I have found this site, and was wondering where I could recieve the best education for what I want to do. I am a member of the Georgia State Nursery Landscape Team, and know a lot about landscape design and horticulture-- at least the basics for my state. I am competing in the National Competition at the end of this month. I am willing to travel anywhere in the world to study, I just don't understand the differences in education between countries other than study-abroad programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to find a program heavy in floriculture-- not just shrubs and woody plants.
Hi Stephen - I'm most grateful for the tip on using Tria markers on the rear of a transparency. I've been a professional designer for seven years but it had never occurred to me before - oh well, never too late to learn. I'm going to have to speed up a bit though! It's too easy to keep adding and blending and erasing - I'm going to need a new blending marker soon. There's a slightly dodgy photo of a perspective rendering on my page if you're interested.
Hi Stephen! I'm so excited I'm gonna combust! Can't wait to see everyone again and catch up with all the gossip!! And get back into learning of course, haaa!!
Thanks for your comment Stephen and it is easy to understand your love of foliage when looking at the photos of your garden.
I am a foliage person at heart too. I started with evergreen only, then I added others like hostas, sambucus and cotinus. Now I am getting older I think my plant palette is changing again and I have started planting more perennials like verbena bonariensis, geum, crocosmia lucifer and the biennial lychnis coronaria. These help me to create a more seasonal garden as against looking the same all year round.
Hey Stephen, I'm from the Portsmouth area. Next year I'm going to South Downs to do a catering management course (although I want to join the Police Force... The social skills are valuable, though). I got intrested in gardening becuase of my grandad, and through the years I've helped him maintain his garden, until recently, when me moved into a care home. I only stumbled upon this site when I was looking for a programme of some sort to help my mum design our new house's garden - there are some tight spaces, and it's a strangly shaped garden, with an area of around 8ft by 18 ft by the side of the house, which gets little light because of a large hedge (which is hopefully being removed at some point). I'm hoping that with the aid of a computer and some experienced people, it will help iron out any measurement mistakes, and to get a better look of how we want it to look like. Sorry for going a bit off-track there ^_^ I don't want to get into gardening heavily - I just want to keep the skills that m grandad taught me, and maintain the wonderful gardens like he did. However, if I were to go into gardening as a job, I quite like rockeries and water features... They always add a nice touch to a garden, if in the right place... And I like the tranquility of the water - rather relaxing. :) Sorry I've babbeled on a bit ^_^, -> Jamie.
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