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Garden Design is the design of a garden, a garden is grown for the display or use of plants. Where a landscape is the broad surface that makes up our world, earth view/shape. So a landscape is a place where a garden as well as everything else that makes up the built world can happen. No one ever says I am having a landscape party, they say garden…[Read more]

That is a very subjective thing to decide. I know that I like larger/broader curves than some designers install. The best thing would be to layout it out on your plan and try different radii until you find one that works.
 

another
http://thinkingardens.co.uk/articles/can-professional-designers-really-hope-to-emulate-those-for-whom-a-garden-is-a-lifes-work/

Richardsons article link
http://thinkingardens.co.uk/articles/did-you-say-the-g-word-wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap/

I have often designed things that have to be approved by an engineer, as many LA’s have, which means we need to be aware and knowledgeable about such things.  I work for a firm that is engineering heavy, so our designs tend to be skewed in that direction.  Engineers are a breed all their own.  However what separates us from engineers is a so…[Read more]

L.A.s seemed to be called in for even quite small spaces..what makes an LA approach different to a Garden designer?

So where does the landscape sit?

Leslie, an excellent answer. The word ‘garden’ according to English writer Tim Richardson has become almost a ‘dirty’ word..or words to that effect.. Is the ‘highline’ a garden or Landscape architecture with embellishments by a plantsman/artist (Oudolf)?
 

A garden can be in the landscape but the landscape is not in the garden.
 

Jon, Mmm as you probably are aware (at least from AU) L.A.s are often considered the last profession qualified to deal with plantlife….Even qualified garden designers are becoming (and often admit) plant weak. Your comment suggests that perhaps L.A.s are more L. Engineers?

If you design gardens, then perhaps.  If you are doing a large scale campus for example with a lot of complex grading and drainage with retaining walls, signage and tons of corresponding details… it is a gross undersell.

Scale.  Approach.  Client.

I understand that the British tend to call an entire residential property a “garden,” and American speech tends towards the use of “garden” for a specific area within even a residential property…ie. herb garden, flower garden, vegetable garden etc. Someone else comment if I’m mistaken.
But this might explain why LA was chosen as the name of the…[Read more]

If you plan on being a landscape contractor and designing your landscapes as part of it, there might not be as much a difference as some might think. I know many contractors with LA degrees who went into, or continued existing, business before interning. They do very well. One benefit to no having an LA license as a contractor is that LAs will…[Read more]

Is not exterior designer a more appropriate name for L.A.?

Often large parklike private gardens were named ‘landscapes’

ah but gardens can be quite large and for the public?

garden is a smaller space, very intended for specific recipients. The landscape must be universal so that everyone feels all right in it.

I’d be far less worried about rooftop planting than infill gardens in vacant lots in former industrial rust-belt cities. It would be interesting to see if there have been studies on this. And I prefer progressive metal/rock (essentially classical music with electric guitars) and other types of music as well. As long as it ain’t pop or rap.

Dood! did your school not explain this to you???