Hands on Workshop: Garden Design Seminar: This workshop is taught in a classroom and allows students to interact with a small team to design a Watershed Wise landscape. The focus is on becoming confident enough with the design process to produce a simple, do-it-yourself, properly scaled Landscape Plan.
- Review the Watershed Approach to landscaping as it applies to an actual landscape
- Determine the dimensions of a passive rainwater capture area and place it on a plan
- Select from a curated plant palette to create a working list of climate-appropriate plants
- Group plants by hydrozones and microclimates
- Apply key design principles to place plants on a plan using properly scaled paper cut-outs
- Determine basic layout of irrigation for the proposed landscape
- Suggested pre-requisites include: Watershed Wise Landscaping, and Turf Remove Replace or Maintain It (Organically)
- This workshop provides coaching opportunities for Professionals
- Available in English with Simultaneous Spanish Interpretation
- 180 Minutes