Garden designer

They are able to survey the site, and prepare drawings for the development of a garden from concepts to construction, and source the plant and building materials.

Some very competent designers and landscape architects have a meager amount of diverse botanical and horticultural knowledge and experience.

Historically, garden designers were trained under the apprentice system, such as André Le Nôtre with his father and Beatrix Farrand with Charles Sprague Sargent.

Specialist university-level landscape planning and garden design courses were established in the twentieth century, generally attached to departments of agriculture, horticulture, or architecture.

In the second half of the twentieth century many of these courses changed their scale of focus and their nomenclature, from garden design to landscape architecture.

Illustration from a popular nineteenth century book on garden design: Edward Kemp 's How to lay out a Garden . The drawing shows how to plant a group of trees framing views to the scenery beyond