The September issue of Pro Landscaper celebrates 15 years of the LCGD journey and success.

As we start the new teaching year we’ve had a look back at some of the highlights of last year with students, now graduates and tutors. Take a look here.

Prolandscaper Magazine has published an extensive interview with our Director Nina Baxter. You can hear about her career and journey to her current role as Planting Design Diploma course leader as well as her own work in garden design. View the whole interview here.

The College is celebrated for 15 years of creating careers in garden design in the latest edition of the industry’s trade magazine Prolandscaper. As well as interviews with our three Directors there are also features with many industry leaders about what makes a great training in garden design and features with some of our graduates. You can see the whole article here.

Our talented LCGD graduates stole the show at the recent Hampton Court Royal Garden Palace Festival with their stunning “All About Asteraceae” borders.

The London College of Garden Design has teamed up with the Royal Horticultural Society to create a new planting feature, “All About Asteraceae: the plant family with flower power” for this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Planted by recent graduates of the college, seven borders along Ditton Avenue will welcome visitors to the Festival and will showcase the wide variety and diversity of plants in the genus Asteraceae.

At LCGD we take the challenges we face to biodiversity and a changing climate seriously and ensure that the very wide subject of sustainable design is discussed on ALL our courses.

At the opening of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show London College of Garden Design (LCGD) Graduates have won two of the Best in Category Awards.

We have launched a special new season of short courses at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew celebrating plants, gardens and the business of design this Autumn.

LCGD Graduates once again led the garden design profession at this year’s SGD Awards winning 5 of the awards including 2 out of 3 student awards.

At the annual BALI Awards last Friday where the best of the UK landscape professions are celebrated, London College of Garden Design Graduate Craig Atkinson was awarded the 2023 BALI Chalk Fund National Garden Design Student of the Year.

Our graduates and students were enjoying Futurescape last month.

Congratulations to Chloe Hamblen, our recent Graduate who has won our latest Graduate competition for a public park in South East London.

Find out why our students study with us.

We’re delighted to report that Planting Design Diploma Graduate Helen Olney has won our competition to design a garden for the Burma Skincare Initiative at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2024.

We continue to build a strong future for LCGD with our professional colleagues from the landscape industry and so we are delighted to welcome Nina Baxter as a Director of the College and as the new course leader for our professional Planting Design Diploma.

At LCGD we now run a series of sustainable design courses including a sustainability stream through our Planting Design Diploma. A key part of what we design into our gardens is the planting and there are many approaches we can take.

There are so many things that we could do when considering the design of hard landscaping in our designs and here are just a few to consider linked to sourcing of materials that LCGD tutors recommend.

We asked our LCGD tutors and lecturers how they get the buy in for a sustainable design from clients? How can we make sustainable solutions desirable that they accept and that get the acceptance of the neighbours?

At LCGD we encourage sustainable design approaches in students’ work. There is now substantial and growing evidence for the physical and mental health benefits of spending time in the natural environment, although people, especially children are engaging less with nature.

We’re very pleased to announce an innovative new partnership with the Lawn Association to ensure that garden design professionals have the skills and expertise to promote true sustainable lawn care within their work.

Our social responsibility strategy continues to support horticultural charities that benefit a wide community. This includes those working within the industry through our association with Perennial, the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Charity.

The London College of Garden Design (LCGD) recently asked an international panel of speakers to choose their iconic garden of the previous decade that will, in their mind, be the gardens we will still be talking about as landmarks in garden design in 20 years-time.

We are celebrating our involvement in the fifth year of The Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show which runs from 15th-16th July 2023 by asking you to show us your perfect countryside border.

Our series on New Iconic Gardens of the 21st Century has been very popular as we expand our search across the UK, USA and Scandinavia. Our next port of call is New Zealand and Ben Hoyle, one of the country’s finest and best known Garden Designers.

We are delighted to be welcoming Annika Zetterman, author of the best-selling New Nordic Gardens to our webinar series this season.

Our new series of Info Bursts got off to a great start with a presentation on the Grey to Green landscape created in Sheffield. Alexa Ryan-Mills proposed that this design brining colour and sustainability to a city centre will change how we look at urban greening.

We are delighted to be supporting the Landscape Show 2022 in their second year at the NEC in Birmingham with an exciting series of talks across two days.

Over 10 years ago we invited some well-known garden personalities to choose their favourite new garden that had been created in the previous decade or so and pitch it as one of the gardens we will still be talking about as landmarks in garden design in 20 years time.

The winner of the Countryside Borders competition, sponsored by the London College of Garden Design has been announced as Katy Watson. Katy also won the People’s Vote at the Belvoir Castle Flower & Garden Show with her design for a planted border that can support wild birds in our gardens by helping them forage for themselves and to improve biodiversity in our gardens (pictured).

We were delighted to see Katherine Holland at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival win a Silver medal for her garden ‘A Journey, in collaboration with Sue Ryder’ The garden tells a story about the range of thoughts and emotions that we confront when experiencing grief, and is designed to encourage conversation with the aim of supporting those who are grieving and the people close to them.

The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) celebrated their annual awards in March and we were delighted to see that LCGD Graduates were successful in winning a number of awards.

If you have missed an Info Burst you can sign up to receive a copy of a recording here!

We are celebrating our involvement in the fifth year of The Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show which runs from 15th-16th July 2023 by asking you to show us your perfect countryside border.

We are once again supporting the Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show in 2022 with increased support of the Countryside Borders competition that celebrates planting design and supports new garden designers and horticulturists as they start their careers.

LCGD have relaunched their successful careers day So You Want to be a Garden Designer to support people thinking of moving to a career in the profession.

At the recent 9th annual awards show for the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) Awards 2021, Students, Graduates, and Directors from the London College of Garden Design (LCGD) walked away with not just the Student Awards but other garden awards as well.

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show saw many LCGD Graduates exhibit gardens and balconies to the public for the first Autumn Show to be run.

For the Autumn of 2021 LCGD’S new season of info bursts will speak to 4 young Garden Designers who are making a mark through their planting designs. Tom Simpson kicks off the series on Tuesday 28th September.

Wednesday, 07 July 2021, the London College of Garden Design (LCGD) celebrated their 2020 and 2021 graduations by donating 100 trees to the NHS Forest.

The London College of Garden Design has announced that they have renewed their sponsorship of the Countryside Borders Competition at the Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show 2021.

Offering online learning to home gardeners, gardencourses.com, a collaboration between the founders of the internationally acclaimed London College of Garden Design and ground-breaking environmental podcast Roots and All, is launching on 1^st December.