The KLC School of Design delivers courses in a professional, friendly and stimulating environment.
Workshop elements take place in a private palace apartment with spectacular views across the formal gardens. Practical elements are held in the 20th century garden, which was formerly the apprentices' garden.
KLC's workshop programme is listed below but for more details please visit the KLC website >
Part-time Diploma in Garden Design
9 Jan - 27 Nov 2012
A professional, career-orientated course covering all aspects of garden design, including:-Plants, practical horticulture, design principles, structure, form,landscaping and construction, professional practice and presentation techniques. With the unique learning resource of the 20th Century Gardens, students also gain practical, hands-on horticultural experience during the course.
Experience Garden Design
2 March and 11 May 2012
This day provides the perfect concise introduction to the world of garden design covering principles of design, practical planning, how to choose a style, fundamentals of successful planting and the first steps to creating a master plan.
Give Your Garden a Fresh New Look
9 March 2012
This day will help you focus on what you can realistically achieve from your own garden, how to plan it and how to avoid common design problems. From examining what makes a pleasing garden space through to brainstorming sessions on style, balance and mass planting, this day combines lectures and practical exercises to help you take the first step towards creating your ideal garden.
Ideas for Summer Border Planting
30 March 2012
This inspiring day will examine a wide variety of planting combinations with illustrated talks and an opportunity to draw inspiration from the colourful Hampton Court herbaceous borders. Gain ideas on how to create borders for summer impact, with particular attention to colour combinations. The day will also discuss practical considerations such as improving your soil, sourcing the plants and how to space the plants and decide on numbers to buy.
Introduction to Garden Design
26 April – 28 June (9-13 July) 2012
Offered as an inspiring part-time or week-long course this is ideal for anyone looking for a thorough, practical introduction to garden design. Our practising professional designers will take students chronologically through the process of a garden design project – from setting the brief and the principles of garden design through to selecting plants and materials. The syllabus covers; the starting point, site surveys, functional layouts, garden themes, planting design, types and names of plants, creative planting,practical gardening techniques from soil improvement to plant care and management, materials and finishes.
How to Light Up Your Garden
23 March and 18th May 2012
To understand the basic principles of exterior lighting design and developing a lighting scheme into a detailed lighting plan. Covering lighting principles, overview of lamps (including colour temperature and rendition, beam widths and lamp life),controlling your exterior space, lighting schemes & plans.
Making the Most of Your Small Town Garden
15 June 2012
This workshop will show you how to create a simple geometric design for a small garden. You will be shown how to capitalise on the constraints of a small space and how to play up its distinctive characteristics. There will also be an analysis of a selection of materials, so that by the end of the day students will have the confidence to put together a competent scheme for a small town garden.
The All Year Garden
29 June 2012
Learn how to create a stunning planting scheme that looks good all year round. Discover the importance of structure in the garden and how this will give your garden a long season of interest. This workshop will also demonstrate how form and texture are vital ingredients in a planting scheme and show how to choose plants that create seasonal splashes of colour and scent in each season of the year.
2012 Garden Inspiration Summer Series
Here is a summer series to get you in the garden. Register for all three days or any combination that suits:
Formal Garden
1 June 2012
Using inspiration from the grand gardens of Hampton Court to create your own formal garden.
Making an English Romantic Garden Vita’s Way
22 June 2012
Drawing inspiration from the iconic garden of Vita Sackville West’s Sissinghurst Garden to create a romantic garden in the English style.
Modernist Garden
6 July 2012
Drawing inspiration from iconic gardens of the mid-twentieth century to create gardens of the crisp, clean and modernist style.
