Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating private gardens and parks. The project, from design to realisation, is carried out personally by a professional, the garden designer, who has in-depth knowledge of horticulture and green space design. Occasionally a garden designer may also be a landscape architect. Amateur or professional gardeners can also achieve a high level of competence in garden design depending on their experience or training, following qualified master courses or working alongside established professionals in the field.
Master in Garden Design Online
Master in Garden Design Online
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THE TRAINING COURSE
The objective of the Master's Course in Garden Design is to consolidate the student's technical and artistic skills in the design of gardens, parks and green areas, in order to create harmonious and fascinating compositions and place them in a living and natural context. Integration with the landscape is in fact an essential principle in green design, which must aim for a perfect fusion between nature and the work of man. Each of the decorative elements required to complete the project must aim to achieve the necessary balance between the vitality of vegetation and the art of human intervention.
The design phase of this full-immersion master's degree in garden design is based on the integration between the environment and the needs of the client, between functionality and design choices. All this is fundamental in order to find effective and appropriate solutions, capable of shaping the landscape with elegance and with constant attention to the relationship between tradition and new trends.
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Who is it addressed to?
The Master's in Garden Design is aimed at a variety of professionals and enthusiasts who wish to acquire advanced skills in the design and management of green spaces: landscape architects, gardeners and green technicians, interior designers, environmental engineers and ecologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups in the green sector, gardening and design enthusiasts, urban planners and land planners.
What you will learn
- Botany and landscape ecology
- Recognition of botanical and tree species
- Classification of ornamental species
- History of the garden
- How to choose plants for nursery
- Urban green
- Sensory elements use
- Creative workshop with project
Course program
Botany and landscape ecology
- Plant anatomy
- Plant physiognomy
Knowledge of botanical and arboreal species
- Dimensions, foliage, colors, transparencies, full and empty
- Leaf, stem and thorns
- Vascular plants
- Biological form
- Tubers
- Fruits
Reading and interpreting floor plans
- Conventions and graphic elements: scale, orientation, symbols
- Types of plans: status survey, concept plan, master plan
Methodological Approach to the Project from the Survey to the Design Proposal
- Functional zoning, flow analysis, insertion of plant and non-plant elements
Notes on the main ornamental tree species
- Classification of ornamental species
- Annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous ornamental plants
- Use of ornamental plants
- Social function of ornamental plants
History of the garden
- The art of gardens - Historical notes
- The medieval garden
- The fifteenth-century garden
- The Renaissance garden
- The court gardens of the seventeenth century
- Notes on the Chinese and Japanese garden
- The landscaped garden
- Great park and garden
- XX century
- Contemporary landscaper
- Drawing exercises
How to choose plants for nursery
- The nursery material
- Material classification
- Morphological analysis of the material
Ground characteristics
- Ground components
- Physico-mechanical properties
- Motion of water in the saturated and unsaturated porous medium
Urban green
- Urban forest
- Terraces design and roof gardens
- Artificial solution of green areas
- Urban green areas analysis and classification of
- Urban green functions
- Urban green regulations
- Private and public green
- Creative workshop with project
Vertical garden
- Realization of vertical green, differences between parietal green and vertical garden
- Natural composition applied to the vertical garden
- Botanical aspects of compositions, between north and south exposure, indoor and outdoor; Analysis of installation and maintenance issues
- Case histories: realization and execution of works
Sensory elements use
- Scents, colours, seasonal colours
Healing Gardens seminar
Designing with Landscape Designer software
Job opportunities
The skills acquired with the Master's degree in Garden Design can be spent in the realisation of green projects for public and private spaces. The green design expert can work as a freelancer or collaborate with design studios in the sector.
Course Phases
Preliminary lessons: teaching material
Online classroom phase
Project work
Internship phase: internship at partner companies in the region of interest of the participant
Issued certificates
- Certificate of attendance online classroom phase
- Project Work Certificate
- Certificate of attendance Internship
The professional figure
The garden designer is a professional specialising in the design of gardens and green spaces. He or she selects plants and materials, organises spaces and integrates ecological solutions to meet the client's needs, creating functional, aesthetic and sustainable outdoor environments. He collaborates with other experts to ensure harmony between the garden design and the surrounding architecture.
Kit Visibilità
Il Kit visibilità è una strategia condivisa al 100%: un percorso in cui la scuola ti mette a disposizione gli strumenti, i canali e un network professionale consolidato, mentre tu dai valore al progetto esprimendo la tua storia, le tue idee e la tua autenticità.
Cosa ottieni con il Kit
Amplificazione social: I tuoi contenuti migliori verranno condivisi sui canali ufficiali della scuola, aumentandone l’esposizione verso recruiter e aziende partner.
Guida pratica alla creazione: Un manuale scritto per imparare a raccontare la tua esperienza e i tuoi progetti con il massimo impatto.
CV Positioning & Talent Distribution: Supporto dedicato per ottimizzare struttura, competenze e stile del tuo CV, con la possibilità di inserimento nel network di aziende partner.
agevolazioni e finanziamenti
Early Pass
Ogni anno, l’Accademia seleziona specifici percorsi formativi ai quali applicare l’agevolazione Early Pass. Si tratta di un sistema di scontistica progressiva riservato a chi formalizza l’iscrizione con largo anticipo rispetto all’inizio del percorso formativo
Sconto studente IDI
Dalla seconda iscrizione i nostri allievi, godono di scontistica a loro dedicata
FINANZIARIE CONVENZIONATE
Possibilità di finanziamenti e dilazioni anche senza reddito
Our Partners
Verde Commerce
APGI
Neó
Nurseries of Vallecamonica
Patrizia Pozzi
AMP - Architecture and landscape
A3Landscape
Venice Green
Frizzi
Botanical Atelier
Capitanio Nurseries
Green pencils
Antonio Radice
Green 2 me
Matiteverdi
Studio Garden Project
The Window on the Flowers
SCAU STUDIO
Evoè
Designing Gardens
Nature Project
Vegetable Atelier
Studio bee agro
Marsiglialab
Scattered Trees
Landscaper Designer
Garden Peticca
Garen Tres
The garden of de pra
Anthemis
Arbolè
Corbetta
Mosole Nurseries
Green Profile
Luca Ghezzi Garden Design
Kilometrezero
Pangea
Ornus
Flavio Pollano
Landscape architecture bureau
Meson Ro
Fabbri nurseries
AG&P
Sandrini
Green Project
Rizzi Gardens
Alexander Von Gelmini
Orticolario
VENICEGREEN
Digital Garden
Fertil San Marco
Mengoli Studio
Raffaele Orrù
Terradice
Pool Landscape
Sonia Santella
Rattiflora
Frassinago
Royal Garden
Monica Botta
Next Urban Solutions
Ingegnoli
Vegetable Atelier
Gri.Ma. - Grima Green
Tower Nurseries
Flowers of the World
Virginio Melaranci
V Green
The Gardener
Marta Carraro
Galbiati Gardens
Naima
ECO - Contemporary exterior
Stradivaire Associated Architects
Ginkgo
Denori
Brugna Nurseries
Montanari Gardeners
Coffice
Latium floriculture
Green Project
Marsiglilab
Green Line
Hats Gardeners
Leone Studio
The Garden
At the Zecchin house
Landesign
Up in the garden
Bottega 17
Three Emme Service
Giuliana Gatti
adp
Acca Software
CORFONE
KWG Braille
Fervistudio
DSB
The Beech
GMP STUDIO
Turin Garden
Mati 1909
The Gardener
Studio Baldi
Course dates:
DENTRO IL COLORE: Ciclo di Approfondimento sul Colore – Date dei Seminari Online: 21 maggio, 17 giugno e 15 luglio 2026
Fase d’aula Online: Dal 3 settembre 2026 al 13 maggio 2027
Maximum number of participants: 30
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The teachers of the course
Luca Ciliani
Marta Carraro
Francesco Cecchetti
Cecilia Comencini
Sonia Santella
Margherita Cesaretti
Elisabetta Fermani
Andrea Pelleriti
Tommaso Giorgino
Matteo Foschi