We are committed to supporting our graduates through their careers and many come back time and again to update their skills on our graduate training days. Our reputation in design training also means that we are able to offer opportunities exclusively to our graduates. These have included opportunities to design gardens for international garden shows, and for permanent landscapes such as a park on the South Bank in central London and therapeutic gardens for schools and hospitals. Most recently a partnership with the RHS gives graduates the opportunity to design borders at the Hampton Court Garden Festival.
Adam Phoenix | image – Sophie Mitchell
Kate Brown | Image – Sophie Mitchell
Each year our graduates win in the Student Award from the Society of Garden + Landscape Designers, the UK’s professional body for Garden Design. They have been named RHS Career Changer of The Year, have won the premier student award in the USA; achieved success with BALI and APL and at garden shows including the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the Singapore Garden Show and Best in Show at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Many of our graduates are now leading garden design professionals such as Tom Massey, Harry Holding and Alexa Ryan Mills and often return to us to tutor on our courses.
Harry Holding
Tom Massey
But to achieve success you don’t have to win awards. As well as design skills we believe knowledge of construction techniques and sound professional practice are just as important and whichever course you choose we aim to cover these skills as much as design excellence. Take a look at the film below where one of our graduates talks about his garden design career after qualifying with us.
All our students and graduates are able to have a page on our website to promote their projects, skills and services. We find that many people people are interested in appointing a new designer to their projects and so these pages are an invaluable support to an early career in garden design.