Simplified Grading for Garden Designers

Simplified Grading for Garden Designers

This is a beginners course on understanding elevations and contours and how they impact garden design.  Having an understanding of how to work with slopes and uneven ground will give your designs more interest and open doors to your own creativity.  It will enable you to convey, discuss and explain your ideas to a much fuller extent to clients, family and landscape contractors - it will give you a starting point to talk with confidence about your ideas. 

We'll begin with the basic concept of contours and topographic maps, watersheds and simple contour manipulation.  This course is filled with exercises that will grow more complex as you move deeper into the different Sections.  By the end of this course you'll have a much better understanding of contours and how to use different elevations to your advantage.  The last Section will cover field procedures for when you want to survey and create your own contour map of a site and build your design onto it.  Overall, this is a practical course in simplified grading for garden designers, contractors and homeowners.

WHAT THIS COURSE IS NOT:  This is not a course in engineering.  While the methods and concepts are basically the same you will need to realize your own limits and when you should hire professional help from surveyors, engineers and general contractors. 

A beginners course in understanding elevations, contours and grading

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What you will learn

• In this course you will learn the basics of contour manipulation and how to create a simple grading plan for your landscape design
• You will learn how to use the Slope Formula to show proposed contours and create useable space in your designs
• You will complete exercises using this same Slope Formula to control and direct drainage in your designs

Rating: 4.55

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 2.5 hours

Instructor: Rob Littlepage