Professional garden designers have a wide range of skills: design, creative and technical. They provide professional, practical solutions converting the clients ‘wish list’ into reality (if practical. If not practical, making appropriate suggestions). On top of this, a pleasant personality, the ability to explain ideas and to interpret the client’s ideas is important. Moreover they explain/create the best outcome of the client’s needs . Management of people and time are also important. Visuals are of paramount importance to a garden designer as a picture/photo/portfolio speaks a thousand words and can avoid time wasting. Clients can understand visuals more than lengthy, wordy explanations. All round garden designers will need the balanced …show more content…
An ongoing rapport with the client should result in future projects.
The role of the garden designer
The role of a garden designer is to interpret a client’s needs with practical, creative solutions - coaxing the client where necessary to understand the reasons for certain decisions. Customer satisfaction is extremely important and the garden designer should keep this in mind at all times and iron out any issues in a pleasant manner while always focusing on the client’s preferences and expectations. Frequent liaison with clients is important making them feel part of the process.
While interpreting the client’s requirements, the garden designer will also bring professional ideas regarding colour, texture, space, features, types of plants, functionality, maintenance etc. to the attention of the client to see if it is to their liking and tailored to their needs.
When asking client’s questions avoid direct, personal questions. Keep queries on a general level. If a client wants to tell you something, he/she will. Listening to a client is of tantamount importance, even if they do not express themselves with professional terminology - naturally you are the expert with creative, practical solutions, not
Garden is a captivating composition. There are many elements in this painting, that altogether, make it a complete, finished work of art. Although the painting is asymmetrical, the placement of the lines and shapes give the perception of a balanced work. The artist has utilized the space by placing the focal point in the center and creating implied and actual lines to draw your eye to it and across the painting. It is an abstract artwork, and is representational of a true
One goal of the pilot phase was gaining clear ideas of how plants can be survived with low maintenance for the environment of school. A kit of parts was compiled, and that could be flexibly configured at any scale and does not hold back creativity. A primary category is to design a surround fence with a gate to define and protect the classroom with the plants. A second category of parts are including the materials teacher utilized for teaching. Such as natural matter to investigate, scientific tools, animal habitat, signage, raised planters etc. The BSI published the components of the two categories as the Outdoor Classroom Design
Professional Landscaping is usually an underrated job. Three ways this job can prove people wrong is that Professional Landscapers make good money, they make more money than a normal job, and it requires creativity, with each job different from the other, which makes it fun and entertaining with each job. Perhaps people can say that professional landscapers are underrated in the way, because people do not give them enough credit for the amount of planning and work they do to accomplish each job or task. Landscapers are required to get a lot of jobs done in a certain amount of time, while still creating an environment pleasing to each individual client. Also it requires a lot of dirty work, such as working a lot with soil, mulch and sometimes even manure. The requirements needed for this job can be very surprising. Professional certified landscaping, believe it or not, takes more education and skill than what some people would think.
Their irrigation system is based on hand watering because it’s more selective, they have more control on how much water is been used and also as a way to protect leaves and flowers from the water pressure. Also, the landscape has been designed to collect and use water during the raining events. The gradual slopes help water to flow over and water the landscape . Also, planting material is used to catch fertizer and run off like Deer grass. Because they are a small non-profit organization, they don’t use any kind of technology due to the lack of budget. They calculate what is needed, based on their needs, and work with the budget they have. The staff is limited due to budget too. There are only three people working, two full-time and one intern working part-time. That is why the volunteers are a big help for the nursery. In spite of the limited budget, the staff gets informed and updated with any new techniques used to improve the performance of the plants by attending different conferences and
Tastefully laid out in grass intersected by broad gravel walks, and planted with a great variety of trees, shrubs and flowers, botanically arranged. The Arboretum, as these gardens are designated, is much frequented, and has already produced a perceptible effect in improving the appearance and demeanour of the working class.
The research and preparation for this essay have made me realize not only how interesting and unique this project is, but also how useful and valuable such a “Garden for the Blind” could really be. The blindfolded Butterfly Garden experience specifically helped me realize to a great extent how much we as humans greatly overemphasize our sense of sight, and do not take full advantage of all the senses most of us have been blessed with to use and appreciate. Just as the restaurant “Dans le Noir?” is not restricted to only the blind, I believe this Garden for the Blind should be for everyone to enjoy and experience. Perhaps those patrons who are gifted with sight could do as we did at the Butterfly Garden and close their eyes, wear sunglasses, put on blindfolds, or whatever means of covering their eyes so that they could truly feel the impact of the garden’s beauty without relying on merely the sense of sight. Joy Malnar and Frank Vodvarka’s Sensory Design helped accustom me to the idea that our other senses are just as important, but vastly underused, when compared with the sense of sight. The architecturally-focused book’s brief section on gardens and emphasis on non-ocular senses helped me start thinking in the proper frame of mind for this garden’s design. Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class was able to aid in my creative thinking processes, and proved very helpful thanks to the revelation that creativity is not a “gift” that only some people are blessed with, but rather a frame of mind that anyone who works hard enough can attain and master for some creative purpose. All of these various sources helped provide me with the right mindset and creative energy in order to come up with the ideas and thoughts about the “Garden for the Blind” I am about to describe.
By providing these spaces, the small town helps those who are underprivileged by empowering them. This would also provide a stronger community bond with the people who live there by bringing folks together who otherwise would not meet. These gardens can be a great tool for the younger generation to help them learn compassion for those less fortunate, tolerance for others, and the value of hard work. By teaching children, that what they do can make a difference for them, but also for others, you cannot go wrong. For the most part community gardens need hard working people to organize people thought the community to get the gardens started. They also need to be able to keep the garden organized from when to plant what food and who will be working in certain areas. The organizer/s will also need to look for help whether it is for monies to obtain supplies, tools for maintenance, or extra labor during a big
How to create an environment suitable for human living when resources are limited is a challenging problem for modern society. My strong interest in photography and art has compelled me to become especially observant toward the relationship between human beings and the environment. I have come to realize that the environment we live in has suffered much damage from pollution and lacks competent planning, making it difficult to find beautiful scenery to photograph or sketch. I began to think that I could make use of my artistic gift, concern about, and interest in the environment by entering the field of landscape design and putting my effort into beautifying our surroundings. Therefore, after graduating from high school, I entered the Department of Landscape Architecture at ABC University.
In brief, play provides the base for learning in a child’s world and opens the door to a world of learning opportunities. Gardening with children is a wonderful way to engage children with nature. Through this opportunity for joyful outdoor play, the garden encourages the rights of childhood. As stewards of the earth, working beside their peers and adults, the children in the garden construct a sustainable future for themselves and their communities. This world of play offers children broad opportunities to learn about themselves, others, and the environment in which they live.
In this report I’ll be exploring the Persian Garden style and its common features, why the ideas developed. I’ll then look at the common types of Persian Garden, and conclude by comparing a historical and modern example of a Persian Garden.
Through collaboration, volunteers are able to “contribute their knowledge, skills, and experience” which allows for others to learn from each other. An important part of collaboration is diversity (Komives, Wagner 2009). Having a community garden in one of the largest universities in the United States allows for a diverse group of volunteers. The diversity at the arboretum allowed for people to learn different techniques regarding gardening. Different styles of gardening are applied to find the best possible methods to enhance the garden. From first time volunteers to the volunteer program facilitator, John Guziejka, everyone uses the experience to learn new
... these differences in presentation, design, and the relationships between the garden, viewer, and the architecture, the general goal of both garden types are inherently the same. In the Japanese tradition, these gardens are meant to function as aids in understanding in one form or another. In addition, both demonstrate the emphasis on the relationship between humankind and nature—perhaps one of the most important elements of Japanese art and architecture.
Client(s) may be in the first stage of our design thinking sequences (Archer, 1984, p. 67), and then the designer job is to explore what is the problem, what do we want, what do they need: to produce a design to meet the requirements. The initial design problem presented to the designer may be poorly and incompletely described (McDonnell, 1997, p. 45...
3. Professional assessment. Interiors designers can see things you cannot see. They will help you make a solid plan which will transform your new place the way you want.
A landscaping plan is a must practical design that flows. The choice of plants can offer beautiful displays throughout the growing season, research each plant and discover how what it takes to have a success garden. I hav...