What's New at Garden Design School?
ROBIN TEMPLAR WILLIAMS - to talk at US shows
Garden Design School’s reputation for training and development at the highest standard continues to grow. As evidence of this, the School’s internationally recognised co-founder, principal and course tutor, Robin Templar Williams, has once again, for the second year running, been invited to give a talk at The Boston Flower and Garden Show at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston MA on March 16th 2011. Robin’s talk will be entitled ‘Great Garden Design – How to achieve it – Essential Guidelines’ and will draw upon Robin’s rich insight and 30 years of practical experience into what it takes to design gardens for real fee-paying customers. Robin, who has won many awards and accolades for his exceptional and inspirational garden designs, says “the talk will draw on content from our Garden Design Diploma and is intended to help attendees learn how to apply their own creativity and passion for gardens to create great designs”. Come along and find our more about a career in the rewarding and profitable garden design industry. For further information view their website at www.paragonexpo.com/466-HOME.html
For the first time, this year Robin has also being invited to talk at The 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention center from March 6-13. Robin has been booked to speak on March 12th 2011.
For further information view their website at www.theflowershow.com/ShowInfo/index.html
STUDENT NEWS FROM GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL
SUCCESS FOR OUR GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL STUDENTS 2010
Congratulations to our 2010 students on receiving their Garden Design School Diploma - Well Done!
OUR NEW 2011 DIPLOMA COURSE STUDENTS
Our new Painshill students
Our new Bristol students
Awards all round for Garden Design School
JUSTINE JOBSON - AWARDED RHS PRIZE
Justine Jobson - Wins Silver at Royal RHS London Plant & Design Show 2010
Recently, former Garden Design School pupil, Justine Jobson entered her first show garden at the RHS London Plant & Design Show. Justine tells us it was a lot of hectic evenings and hard work - but
“It was a really good experience, and I definitely appreciate all the help I had from some very generous and co-operative people. I'd love to do another, to try and beat my Silver medal, perhaps an outdoor one in the summer next time!”
ROBIN TEMPLAR WILLIAMS - APL AWARD
The latest coup for Robin Templar Williams was to be awarded not one, but two accolades for a stunning private garden in Surrey. The garden in Chiddingfold was the winner of the ‘2009 Amenities and Landscape Award’ and the very rare ‘Judges Special Award for an Outstanding Garden, in Design, Construction and Planting’ by the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL).
Robin commented, “We hope that the ongoing successes and achievements of the faculty members inspire and motivate our students and give them confidence to achieve their own career goals.”
GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL EXPANDS STATESIDE
Garden Design School is delighted to announce the launch of our US Diploma in Landscape and Garden Design, commencing August 2009. We aim to bring the very best of UK and US landscape and garden design together in an intensive, exciting, part-time programme, the first of its kind in North America.
Several years in planning, our US Diploma has been carefully constructed, from scratch, to meet the specific needs of the American garden design market. We’ve worked with leading academics and many successful US landscape designers to ensure that every aspect of our programme is of genuine, practical relevance. For more information visit www.gardendesignschool.com
FI BOYLE WINS THE 2009 GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL DIPLOMA COURSE AWARD
The 2009 Garden Design School Student Award has been awarded to Fi Boyle, the graduate who we feel has made the most significant progress while training with us this year.
Fi can be contacted on 01747 860263 or 07787 913027 or by email: fi.boyle2@googlemail.com
FORMER GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL STUDENT WINS MAJOR AWARD AT CHELSEA 2008
Andrew Stevenson, who completed the Garden Design School Diploma in 2005, is the co-designer of a fantastic, award-winning show garden at the recent RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Andrew and his fellow designer, Steve Putnam, both work for Chessington Garden Centre – who sponsored their entry - and their garden, entitled “Mist-Placed”, won a silver flora medal in the ‘courtyard’ category. The design is based on the crumbling remains of a long-neglected chapel garden on a Victorian estate in north Yorkshire. It conveys a strong sense of solitude and serenity with a very imaginative scheme of predominantly shade-loving plants.